About
The Dopefish is a character that appeared for the first time in the video game “Commander Keen: Secret of the Oracle” in the year 1991. He became a video game industry inside joke and has many appearances in other games in the form of cameos and easter eggs.
Origin
The Dopefish was one of 24 potential characters that id Software’s Tom Hall designed for the fourth Commander Keen episode: “Goodbye, Galaxy!”. The drawings were approved and the character got implemented into the final game.
Tom Hall’s original sketches of the Dopefish.
It is described in game as the “second-dumbest creature in the universe”. His thought patterns go “swim swim hungry, swim swim hungry” and “They will eat anything alive and moving near them, though they prefer heroes”. His artificial scientific name is Pisces swimeatus.
The Dopefish appears for the first time in the underwater level “The Well of Wishes”, where one of his signature moves is belching, while facing the viewer directly.
Appearances in other games
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