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For those who don't know, it's made by id Software : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software#Commander_Keen

I got it for free, along with Jill of the Jungle, and Wolfenstein 3D, with a Gravis PC Gamepad back in the day. They all came on two floppies, I was amazed that so much content could go on two discs that I could carry with me.

Revelation: Today, it's amazing to me to have a 128GB ssd on my keychain.

Commander Keen 4 and Duke Nukem 2 with a Gravis joystick of some description.

This one maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravis_PC_GamePad

We got Keen 4 bundled with this Gravis joystick: http://mocagh.org/forsale/gravis-back.jpg

I played Keen exclusively with a joystick for years and was pretty good at it. If you sat me down with the exact same joystick I could probably still play pretty well, but the much looser feel of a modern joystick would screw me up. When my brother and I would play Keen, we'd make the plastic on the joystick case creak from the frantic maneuvering!

Yes, that's the one! You could even screw this little stick into the d-pad and use it like a joystick, or like me, as a child you just broke it off in the hole and never told mom.

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