Super Rare Keen up on ebay

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Super Rare Keen up on ebay

Post by Megaman_90 »

This is weird, there is an odd Commander Keen game up on ebay for 200$.

Its entitled "Commander Keen's Trek 96".

http://cgi.ebay.com/Commander-Keens-Tre ... 414d331163

Anyone have ANY info on this? I've never seen or heard of it ever.....
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Post by matonen »

The heck? I've never heard of that...
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Post by Nospike »

The character on the box doesn't look like keen. Well, it probably is NOT official game, since i never heard of it. It may also be fake...
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Post by Megaman_90 »

Its all very mysterious, it doesn't appear to even have the Apogee or ID logo on it.

There is no info on the internet about it at all...Which is even more weird.
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Post by Nospike »

Just as I said - it may be fake.
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Post by Genius314 »

Someone needs to take a bullet for the community and buy it and tell us all about it.
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Post by Nospike »

Who will pay? :lol
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Post by Genius314 »

Anyone can, it's only a mere $199.99!
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Post by Megaman_90 »

Haha, you can buy a GPU that will play Crysis for that!

Seriously though, if someone buys it and hordes it....We will never know.
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Post by Megaman_90 »

Sorry to double post, But I contacted Apogee. Here is the E-mail:
I saw this weird Keen game on ebay.

Did you guys release this game or is it fake?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Commander-Keens-Tre ... 414d331163
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We have been notified of this auction, although the product is not ours, and we have never seen it before. Since the box is shrinkwrapped there would be no way of knowing what is in side. Although the general thought is that it is the shareware version of one of the keen games.
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Post by Genius314 »

Yep, just as I thought. It's a pretty obvious fake.

In all seriousness, though, there are so many auctions like this that they aren't really even worth noticing.
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Post by Megaman_90 »

I know. I do some business on ebay and their are always morons trying to rip people off to make a quick buck. But I just found this interesting, so I posted it.
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Post by DaVince »

I've seen this exact game before, because someone linked us to it right on this forum before. Apparently, it contains some poker game with no actual relation to Keen, if memory serves me right.
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Post by Levellass »

It looks waaaay off what a Keen or even Apgoee box does, I wouldn't pay a nickel for it, and I'm not even sure what a nickel *is*.
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Post by Genius314 »

This is either a scam, or someone who has no idea what they're talking about.

Yes, it was a game. A game that had absolutely no relation to the Commander Keen that we know. Not part of the series. Definitely not worth $200 (or at least, not for the reason the seller claims)

EDIT: I see. They sell unopened games. So they probably have no idea. Someone's either going to be very disappointed when they open this, or they're gonna never know the truth!
Levellass wrote:I wouldn't pay a nickel for it, and I'm not even sure what a nickel *is*.
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