This game has been a part of my subconsciousness for a quarter of a century. It appears in my dreams and probably impacts my waking life just as much. Especially the color scheme and geometry.
Duddeeeeee I've been trying to remember the name of this game for the better part of 25 years because I had it as a kid and have been wanting to replay it. This came up in my recommendations for some reason and my life's mission is finally at an end lmao
I feel the same way bro I used to play a game with my cousin including this one on the Dreamcast years ago around when turok was out and I can’t remember the name of it it was like people in a tower or something and at the end was a huge dinosaur or dragon you fought on the roof lol they wore blue suits 🤔
I searched Laguna Beach on Google and found this, IDK why i randomly just remembered i used to play this all the time. Nostalgia is unreal, even the noise from the start menu lol
Same here! I'm so glad that I finally too found this long lost game. Haven't seen or played it since it was new back in the late 90's. I only remembered those screeming jumping boxes an the red transparent stairs with a ghost thing power-up in the beginning of the game.
I think the game didn't benefit right away from the 3DFX patch. But even so it looked amazing and very distinct from most games released during the first half of 1997
I used to play this since I was 5 with my brother. Just the soundtrack warms up my heart and brings tears to my eyes. It’s so perfect. I remember every move, every detail. It’s makes me so happy to watch you play, I couldn’t ask for more. ❤
How weird that this was a game with a really nice graphics in my memories until I saw it now. I haven't seen it since '97-'98 because I forgot the name of it. Good memories.
Yes!! I just was thinking about it and I remembered it being like super polished and fully 3D, I had no idea it was like all 2D Sprite art on a 3D plane!
I wish to see a remaster. This whole dark atmosphere and kinda bizarre was the perfect mix. To bad there will be no new games like this anymore. I liked the first game more than the second.
That soundtrack is one of the best. I remember I played the demo now than 20 times and thought if I played it differently it would unlock the whole game
Finally found it. I typed in “black parachute shooter game” 😂. Played this game forever on the new colored IMac in 97. Good times. Thanks for the nostalgia 🤙🏼
That intro part with the mine crawler eating through the mountain range is actually incredible lol seeing this as an adult really makes me appreciate how good these artists were!
45:04 is where it's at, baby! Love how this game was scary, exciting, and provided comic relief (like a James Bond-themed snowboard ride) when needed. I'd also like to acknowledge how beautifully designed the rooms are from 22:30 to 26:25 with the mirroring and reflective services. Cool even by today's standards.
One of the very few memories I have of my grandmother was playing this on her computer--the only one in the house--while (weirdly enough) she lay on her deathbed. When you die the screen is filled with a big skull and crossbones, and I used to shield her from seeing it because I didn't want to remind her of death. Watching this is giving me the weirdest kind of nostalgia. She eventually left that computer to me because she loved seeing me play.
I spent so many hours trying to get through these level - I recall the James Bond music in the snowboard level and the turquoise mirror world level and using the binoculars to zoom in on the aliens who shake their asses at you taunting you and making some annoying noise that I still remember to this day
My memory of this game came back to me out of no where, I had to look this up, so many more memories I have of this game came flooding back to me What I’d give to turn back time
I've been trying for the last few years to remember what this game was called and couldn't dig up info. Then this just randomly popped up in my RU-vid recommendations and I'm like, nah it can't be.
We wrote our own movie script. At one point we got close to an animated tv show. But I think it would have been too kid friendly so glad it didnt go through.
@@nickbruty9241 I hope to see more of MDK. The idea of alien megaships the size of cities filled with absurdity and horror is one of the coolest and most original sci-fi concepts. The not totally sensical layouts of the mine crawlers in MDK gives it a real alien feeling. Not a human-kind but just painted blue and in space feeling.
I used to sit next to my dad and play this when I was 7. I would shoot the gun, he would move/jump and my little brother would watch and throw the mini nuke. Nothing comes close to the level of absurdity, comical horror and sheer artistic originality of this game. It's a psychedelic dream-like sci-fi suspense adventure and I wish more people would be more original when designing aliens and sci-fi games these days. I was thinking what is it about the 90s that inspired so much great art from that era. Unfortunately I don't think we are in a time like that now but I believe within the next 10-20 years we may be lucky enough to see another artistic decade like that. Sick of the crap!
I absolutely loved this game so much! Me and my late stepfather used to have competitions on the P.C to see how many headshots we could get! I remember I completed it one day and ran to the bottom of the garden to tell him, I was so pleased 😂
Did you try to save an explosive bullet for the first boss? When you get the option to fire a few shots at him, before he is aware of you being there and starts firing back, you can select those explosive ones. First time I tried, I blew his head off in one shot, and that was the boss...... :D
@@smeghead5021 I was so surprised: All other times it was an intense fight that lasted for fifteen minutes or so, and all of a sudden it was over in a cutcene. I was shocked!
Came here looking for a way to pass a point that looked like it was a dead end. Finally found it. It was the room with the bright colors in world 3. Somehow I thought that I had to use the tornado and deploy my parachute to go up, but the ease this guy used to just jump up....
Late 90's Interplay games were just something else. Studio pushed the imaginative limit of 3D gaming during that era. Not too much focused on graphics, but more about letting developers go wild with their ideas. It's a damn shame how the company has been juggled around for the last 20+ years.
When I bought my very first PC I got two games with it. One of them was Grand Theft Auto. And the other one was this. I loved it so much. Couldn't even begin to tell you the number of times I played through it. Good times :)
When I moved to New York City to attend NYU I got one of the first iMac G3s. This game came with the computer and I played the hell out of it. Graphics and gameplay were good, but I think what I enjoyed the most was the humor. I never played the sequel. I wonder how that one was.
Remwmber olaying this game as a kid, i didnt know what to do or where to go, so i eneed up going everywhere just to understand it. I loved ever scenario, every map, every monster... I loved thst you havr MDK 2 also to play, you saved doc and doggy from bad guys in the MDK 2 😁❤️
What a fantastic trip this game was. Surreal, humorous, frustrating af, couldn’t quit until it was won. My head was constantly commenting “the designers have clearly been dropping acid, while remembering every brilliant flash.” And the MUSIC, even THAT kept me fixated.
Incredible how when you're a kid you're so easily amused. I must have played this game over 100 times. Nowadays, I have steam with over 200 games and I can't play any and feel the same interest I had when I was a kid
Having just found this posting I can't believe anyone but me remembered...I am an early, early fan of the advancements...thanks to John Romero and John Carmack
Playing this game in any other mode than 3DFX (forgot which one but i prefer Software anyway) the game uses higher resolution textures because 3DFX was always limited to 256x256 pixels and some textures go up to 512x512 which is mighty impressive for a game this age. Tommy Tallarico also composed Earthworm Jim which is highly praised. But the soundtrack of MDK is waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy more epic and awesome. I became partially obsessed by it.
Amazing game! And so well optimised, only 17mb of hd space and 16mb of RAM to play! If this was released today it would probably need 80GB of ssd and 16GB of ram no doubt 😂
The MDK in the name apparently was a codename for the game while it was in development and its supposed to mean "Most Delicious Ketchup" and the development team wouldn't come up with a proper name for the game when it was completed, so they just left the name as MDK...
Nostalgic...Few games available that days, every single one of them was a gem (This one was playable only on Pentium processors, so my 486 was out of the game 😀).
