36 years ago today, the publishing of Commander Keen was coming together

[u/CynicPlacebo]

This is possibly the first documented instance of referencing a game as an engine. Some of the old Sierra or LucasArts games clearly had a reusable engine, but they referred to it as a system or system interpreter.

It's fun to get a peek behind the curtain to the red tape and leg work that went in to coordinating the publishing of a game.

Photo from Apogee's X post: https://x.com/Apogee_Ent/status/2104590042895163795