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	[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote]webshit #1 I wonder if there's enough interest in the franchise to reboot it or see it in a new medium in a way that isn't just a cash grab. My worry there's only a 5-year window of PC gamers who would care, but I'd still love to see it. [/quote] This is a pointless, navel-gazing message, but it's what web forums are for. hackernews has the ability to make idiot know-it-alls feel empowered to write things like this, however. [quote]webshit #2 Probably not, unfortunately. (I'm also in that 5-year window; the original Commander Keen was the first PC game I played on my own and I played the hell out of it). The one form that MIGHT work might be something like a tabletop adaptation somehow: A nostalgic/90s aesthetic TTRPG on a group saving Mars from the aliens or something. It'd be cheap enough to produce + distribute and TTRPGs can live on niche, dedicated fandoms in a way that's harder for video games, plus there's some crossover in the people who like both. Oh, wait. We could reboot it playing as the ALIENS. That might be unique enough to catch some new fans if it were well made. A just plain reboot won't work, though. [/quote] What a true Renaissance man. An expert in market research, factory tooling, startup costs, board games, and game design (the ALIENS). HN is truly lucky to have such a visionary. I know some web trash just read the headlines that said that "Kickstarter is good for tabletop games" but he isn't a soulless state machine regurgitating what he has seen elsewhere. No. This man is a visionary. I just started throwing cash at my monitor at the thought of having people over during a pandemic, all playing a board game as this: <img src="https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/square_small/2/29006/1520386-commander_keen_garg.jpg" width=50>[/quote]