Commander Keen VI: Aliens Ate My Babysitter! (DOS)

Commander Keen VI: Aliens Ate My Babysitter!

Platform: DOS Year: 1991 Developer: id Software, Inc.

For other games in the series see Commander Keen.

In Commander Keen VI: Aliens Ate My Babysitter! Billy's babysitter Molly has been kidnapped by the Bloogs. Keen travels to the planet Fribbulus Xax in order to rescue her. All of the old controls are in episode VI. You still hop on your pogo stick, shoot your neutralizer, and battle your way through multiple action platformed levels.

Despite advertising the next game in the Commander Keen series at the end of the game, it would never be made due to id Software moving on to first person shooters. The final nail in the coffin hit when creator Tom Hall leaving id Software, and with it, the rights to Commander Keen. So, this ended up being the last canonical game in the series.

Screenshots

Keen is bland without salt. The very red surface of Fribbulus Xax. Commander Keen's spaceship, the Bean-With-Bacon Megarocket! Shooting at a Bloog in Bloogwaters Crossing.

Music

Much like the earlier two games, Commander Keen 6 has several light-hearted bouncy tunes that are both catchy and silly. It also has a couple more serious sounding tracks for the more difficult levels. Bobby Prince wrote the music from ground up for the Sound Blaster FM synthesizer since the availability of true wave table synthesizers was uncommon at the time. He used Sequencer Plus Gold for the composing itself.

The titles come directly from Bobby Prince himself.

Recording

VGMPF Album Art

#	Title	Composer	Programmer	Length	Listen	Download
01	Aliens Ate My Babysitter	Bobby Prince	Jason Blochowiak	1:47		Download
02	In a Land of Wonderment and Awe	Bobby Prince	Jason Blochowiak	0:35		Download
03	Br'er Tar Ain't Gonna Get Me!	Bobby Prince	Jason Blochowiak	2:20		Download
04	Faster and Faster Yet!	Bobby Prince	Jason Blochowiak	1:24		Download
05	Space Funk	Bobby Prince	Jason Blochowiak	0:42		Download
06	The Mambo Snake Gonna Eat You, Boy!	Bobby Prince	Jason Blochowiak	1:48		Download
07	Into the Future	Bobby Prince	Jason Blochowiak	0:59		Download
08	Please Don't Metal With Me!	Bobby Prince	Jason Blochowiak	2:10		Download
09	Ominousity	Bobby Prince	Jason Blochowiak	1:23		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Andrew Durdin
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Composer: Bobby Prince credited as Robert Prince
  • Uncredited IMF Designer: Jason Blochowiak

(Source)

Game Rip

Formats	Download	Size
	Download	61 KB

The IMF files were ripped from the Huffman compressed Audio.CK6 file, using the look up stored in the EXE file. The IMF music was played with AdPlug 1.7, and recorded with Winamp. A couple of rearranged MIDI files composed by Bobby Prince are included in the rip download.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

Releases

USA Title: Commander Keen: Aliens Ate My Babysitter! Platform: DOS Released: 1991-11-?? Publisher: FormGen, Inc.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/commander-keen-6-aliens-ate-my-baby-sitter - Moby Games.
• gamefaqs.com/pc/564722-commander-keen-aliens-ate-my-babysitter - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen_series - Wikipedia.
• shikadi.net/keenwiki/Main_Page - KeenWiki, a Commander Keen Wiki.
• commander-keen.com - Commander Keen: The Defender of Earth, fan site.