ADG Episode 79 - Seek and Destroy

Originally Released: March 10th, 2012
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Extremely few games use the perspective this game does for presentation and control... and I learned not too long after trying to make a game with a similar control scheme and perspective that it's because it makes some people dizzy.
shrugs I still enjoy it all the same. :)
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Additional Information and Corrections:
Thanks to one of my regular viewers, I can confirm that the B&N release of this game is indeed the full, registered version! :3
Something you may notice is that a lot of the game elements seem to disappear and reappear. This is due to issues that arose from converting the 57 FPS gameplay to 29.97 FPS for the show as those things are flashing in and out every frame. Although I had found a way around this issue for some reason it decided not to work so well this time around. So glad 60 FPS is a thing on KZbin NOW but it wasn't back when I made this video. :P
Yeah, the "super" weapons are actually called "special" weapons. I'd been doing so much design work around making this video that words like "super", "mega", "ultra", "power", "hyper", "special", etc. all started to blur together to me. x_x;
One thing of note: Since you end a mission by returning to base, and since you start new lives from the base, if you die after completing your objectives and still have lives left, the mission ends immediately, you get your bonus points, then move on to the next.
Part of the reason I didn't put mature rating warnings on this game and Cyberdogs despite the fact there are blood effects in them is because in Cyberdogs, you never actually see anything bleed, you just see splats of "blood" where enemies died and on random surfaces. (In quotes because there's no context to the graphics so it could just be red paint.) In Seek and Destroy, blood effects are literally 4 pixels big and are gone from the screen in under half a second, so it's very hard to notice them in the first place.
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[@rayforceaddict]

Curiosity got the best of me and I ordered a copy of the B&N Software edition. I'll let everyone know if it's the full version or not when it arrives!

[@rayforceaddict]

Yup! It is the full game. I did a quick video on it here (briefly featuring another awesome Vision game!): kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoDOZoiBo5qXlbM

[@wardrich]

I was really impressed by this demo back in the day. I should play it again!

[@kevincarr8434]

Dude. Excellent review. I bought this game at a supermarket in like 1997. It was amazing. I had a joystick and I loved the chopper. And when the guy would say "rockets". I was bummed you didn't include that. Lol.

[@Pixelmusement]

+Kevincarr All the voice cues in this game were done well. ;)

[@kevincarr8434]

Pixelmusement dude. Did you even know about this game when you were young? Or did you just make a review based on demand? I'm not being snarky, I'm just curious. I'm 27. How old are you. Also, fun fact, my dad taught me what napalm was because of this game.

[@StephanS]

This game is so good that i played through (the shareware version) twice, the first time i started it. The ending music somehow reminds of "Falco - Out of the dark"... at least the rhythm does

[@Christopher-N]

*Kris Asick:* I had previously watched this ADG video, and totally failed to recognize this game as one I had played on my cousin's husband's computer (at the time). What version he had, I have no idea, but I had no difficulty in buying this year a sealed CD-ROM fully retail version, with two screenshots and the Epic Megagames logo on the back of the case (no box). However, I did have difficulty in verifying what game I was looking at when shopping, and the listings were indeed sketchy, with very little actual product photos to go on.

[@Christopher-N]

KZbin seems to forget which videos I've watched from start to finish long ago, though it does remember which videos I've 'liked' or 'disliked'. Just a possible explanation of how I failed to recognize this game.

[@Pixelmusement]

+Christopher Noel Also considering I was still on Blip when I made this video. The KZbin switch started in 2014 and was finalized in 2015 when Blip died. :P

[@DOSgamer12]

Lol at the beginning. XD It's like you're controlling a mechanical chirping bird armed with a chaingun and missiles.

[@clsxalghazanth3757]

Reminds of Mass Destruction on PSX !

[@VirtualVernon]

This looks and plays like a poor mans Jungle Strike, Desert Strike, and Urban Strike.

[@kevincarr8434]

Vernon Schaal jungle strike was a piece of crap. Play this game for 2 minutes and see why it's so much better. It's an unknown masterpiece.

[@MarkTheMorose]

Nice in-depth look. Theshadowsnose recently did a video of the Amiga version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoSnepSZjNNnmsU I mentioned your video in comments there.

[@seanhornibrook]

Do Desert Strike already jeez.

[@DoCKathos]

Another game I had a demo of, hella fun. I tried playing it on an online emulator and it ran/sounded like absolute dogshit.

[@Pixelmusement]

Yeah... if you're playing an old DOS game in a browser window or through a website in general, there's a VERY low chance it's going to run its best given that these things are set up en masse instead of attention being given to properly setting up each and every game on these sites. It's not like an NES or Genesis where you have ONE piece of target hardware to emulate, DOS has a near INFINITE number of hardware setups and possibilities, all of which need to be accounted for through custom emulation configuration, none of which typically are unless you do it yourself. :P

[@nosuchthing8]

So odd, why not sell the game