Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons
Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons is a Side-scroll Platform and Single-player video game developed by Ideas from the Deep and published by Apogee Software. The game is marked as the first title to be introduced a set of three episodes of his Commander Keen video game series. It revolves around the titular character named Commander keen, who is an eight-year-old child and he is genius. The ultimate objective is to restore the stolen parts of his spaceship from several cities of Mars, fend off an alien invasion from smashing the planet Earth. To ensure the victory, the player must take on the leader of the aliens and must run, jump, and shoot his way through a set of levels while opposed by robots, evils, and aliens. Each stage in the game comes with a set of enemies that the player must kill or avoid to become the master. In the first episode, the player deals with Martians, in the second he will deal with robots, and in third, he will deal with aliens.
#1 Crystal Caves
Crystal Caves lets the player experience the old-school graphics and side-scroll platformer gameplay developed and published by Apogee Software. The game is the trilogy of platform games and comes with three different episodes such as Trouble with Twibbles, Mylo Versus the Supernova, and Slugging it Out. The first episode in the game is available for free, while the other two episodes need to be purchased to play. The plot follows the protagonist named Mylo Steamwitz, a space trader, who formulates his grand get-rich scheme by purchasing a farm rich in a famous species to meet the demand of the market. To collect enough money to pay off his creators and for his farm, the player flies to the caves in the Altair system to mine the valuable crystals. After having failed in his businesses due to miscalculations, the player decides to purchase a solar system and create it a vacation resort to earn money. To fulfil his dreams the player needs to go back to the dangerous caves for mine more crystals to trade and purchase his own solar system.
#2 JumpJet Rex
JumpJet Rex is a Platform, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game created and published by TreeFortress Games for Multiple Platforms. The game takes place in the 2D world, and it puts the player in control of an eponymous character, a tyrannosaurus armed with jet-propelled boots. The jet boots of the player give him the ability to dash, hover, and boost. It introduces hand-drawn 16bit graphics that takes the player back to the glory days of the early 90s. Dozens of items are scattered across the galaxy, and lots of secret areas are available to discover. The player explores the world from a side-scroll perspective with an aim to battle against enemies, hunt for treasure, and struggle to collect items in order to advance through the game. In Co-op mode, the player needs to rescue all dinokind from the massive asteroids barreling down on the planet Earth. To complete the task, the player can team up with his friend. JumpJet Rex includes prominent features such as Customization, Co-op Mode, Old-school Gameplay, Collectibles, and more.