All right, so here's the connection I wanted to talk about between Wolfenstein and DOOM. Commander Keen is part of this too, which makes the whole thing even more interesting.
B.J. Blazkowicz, Billy Blaze, and Doomguy have a family connection according to the original developers. Billy Blaze is Commander Keen. Tom Hall and John Romero discussed the lineage publicly back in January 2018, with B.J. identified as Keen's grandfather and Doomguy further down the family line.
Hall's exact wording was, “The lineage isn't a theory. Fact.”
That's a pretty fucking interesting connection between three very different games. You've got B.J. fighting Nazis, Keen heading out into space, and Doomguy fighting the forces of Hell, with the original developers putting them in the same family.
I'm keeping the generations after Keen general here because even the reports of that conversation give different versions. But the family connection itself is something Hall directly confirmed.
Original Hall post:
https://t.co/9aUSgYnkyp
The discussion, reported at the time:
https://t.co/q2Gil8QBDf
All right, so here's the connection I wanted to talk about between Wolfenstein and DOOM. Commander Keen is part of this too, which makes the whole thing even more interesting.
· Games / Wolfenstein and DOOM