The Story of GMod's Lost Gamemode

[@CallmeAlexey]

"This, is a watermelon." "Dear god..." "To be specific," "No!"

[@gr4ft]

@@weirdyoutubechannels no

[@hazel_nutts420]

It contains a- Dear god...

[@ThatSmilingTophat]

Legit my first thought when I heard him say that

[@jockdouglass3824]

"This is a racing sandbox" "Dear god" "It's melons" "No"

[@cheses.]

@@jockdouglass3824 there's more.

[@Jacox98]

This might be the most important history documentary I've ever seen

[@JoeyTv.]

I didn’t expect to see you here Jacox. XD

[@Jacox98]

@@JoeyTv. I'm everywhere and inescapable!!

[@MinecraftKarol2005]

Fuck world war 1, this should be tajght in history instead

[@wintari6036]

@@Jacox98 oh my god is that the funny choopo man?!?!?!!?!?!?!111111111

[@Jacox98]

@@wintari6036 holy crab is that a silly little choopo fan!!??!?!?!?! what a crossover is happening right now

[@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage]

I honestly loved how wholesome that interview with Garry seemed.

[@ElWaKa69]

He seemed more uninterested than anything, like he just wanted to interview to be done as fast as it could

[@nikosucksatskating]

@@ElWaKa69 some people are just chronically uninterested due to life being so busy. I can tell he tried. He even got the idea to make it in s&box

[@rickybobbylarge1059]

@@ElWaKa69 richter mentioned it was also late where he was so I’m not suprised he was in a rush he was probably busy and tired

[@epichalomastersnipergod1337]

@@ElWaKa69 Really? If anything I thought he seemed like he was trying his best to be attentive

[@itsukarine]

@@ElWaKa69 i can see why youd think so when compared to more high profile interviews but reserved people tend to come off this way and think, more than feel out their responses

[@midlowreborn]

i like that melon race is finally getting some well deserved attention, it's really fun in gmod 9 and it's a shame it's not one of the stock gamemodes in 13

[@weirdyoutubechannels]

see my banner for cookies ?!?!?!?!!!

[@gr4ft]

@@weirdyoutubechannels no

[@ThenonFun]

Melon

[@simonkorica9467]

you either die 9 or see yourself becoming the 13.

[@originalname9789]

atleast soon it will be stock in s&box

[@uncleskelethor2900]

Here's hoping that the melon race mod will get big. I'd love to see a competitive scene for it.

[@localredbird621]

Comp melon race would be amazing

[@mosthole]

that sounds like a pretty awful idea, cant wait to take the awful competition idea thats ruined modern multiplayer games and apply it to a dead minigame

[@cj-3810]

@@mosthole let people have fun bro

[@umamifan]

It will only die out yet again. There were loads of amazing gamemodes that would have constant activity that just gradually lost their playerbase and died out. Gmod itself is already losing players. The game just isn't as popular anymore unfortunately. People still play on there, but not as much as before. You would be hard pressed to find a reasonable amount of players on a unique gamemode (let's not count the big guys such as sandbox, darkrp, starwarsrp, etc.) that isn't in a language other than English, and isn't nearly or fully empty.

[@shadowyyCFH]

@@mosthole the games gonna be ruined my melon esports

[@ratlobber]

phenomenal video young jiht

[@ilmnhs]

wat

[@solitaryopm]

1h?

[@prodonesix]

‎

[@themilkstore4908]

I totally agree.

[@ilmnhs]

@@solitaryopm 1 second*

[@SnowyFluffboi]

I'm glad to see you got your connections in check and managed to meet with the elusive man himself

[@doctorsam9200]

Even inspired the man to remake it on S&box

[@gr4ft]

@@weirdyoutubechannels no

[@StarshadowMelody]

haha, "The Illusive Man." ... you're in my chair.

[@paw5409]

all we need now is zombie survival 2 on sandbox

[@literatemax]

Elusive

[@_i_c_]

So you're tellin' me Gmod once had its own version of Marble Blast Ultra, that disappeared long before I owned the game... Pain.

[@carbrand7527]

Super bounce

[@damianrodriguez7165]

So when Sandbox comes out and Melon Race is one of the key gamemodes then we all know who to thank, Richter the Melon Racer

[@SimonJ57]

The fact you used an obscure Minecraft tune to explain an obscure Gmod gamemode is neat.

[@Bauxitedev]

I also recognized a track from the obscure game Cortex Command

[@Nuclearstomp]

Which track is that?

[@SimonJ57]

@@Nuclearstomp at 00:47 it's called Calm 4, It's just bizarre.

[@Nuclearstomp]

@@SimonJ57 Thank you. :D

[@SimonJ57]

@@Bauxitedev holy shit, the OST for it goes pretty hard. Interesting how it seems to be available on Steam and GOG, I'd buy it just to rip the music.

[@ellisalinea4777]

I love watching gmod history videos

[@weirdyoutubechannels]

see my banner for watermelon ?!?!?!!??!

[@gr4ft]

@@weirdyoutubechannels no

[@igor_sznycel7706]

First time I played melon racer was in 2016, it was a great and beautiful game mode

[@gr4ft]

@@weirdyoutubechannels no

[@TomoLamp]

@@weirdyoutubechannels you deceived me

[@szczebelek_6133]

people said I was crazy, but I knew there was a scary, black ghost man in MelonRacer

[@darkdwarf007]

wow, dude, no need to bring race into this

[@raidenstern6617]

@@darkdwarf007 lol

[@gr4ft]

@@weirdyoutubechannels no

[@GarryTale]

@@darkdwarf007 but... water.. melon...race..?

[@TheIndogamer]

@@GarryTale no wayyyyy The MelonRacer Critical Race Theory

[@garfleid2773]

Thank you for covering this gamemode, melons are important and covering this lost gamemode pleases the melon gods.

[@golarac6433]

Man. I completely forgot about this ! I swear, recently you and Radiation Hazard just keep on delivering super nostalgic stuff to me.

[@infamoushacker4chan883]

Glad it's coming back. I remember playing this so much back and screaming around corners, only to graze a wall and gib all over.

[@stimmy9785]

Absolutely incredible you were able to talk to Garry about this. I had no idea he was working on a new game either but now I'm hyped. Thanks for the video man, you're definitely one of the best gmod content creators on here, and your work is greatly appreciated.

[@Serac111]

Wow, i never knew about that! It has a very similar vibe of Sanic Ball, a joke fangame that plays like a marble race similar to this, just with much bigger and longer races, it's pretty fun!

[@MoikeIsJesus420]

When Richter said "this is a watermelon" I began to shit and piss myself uncontrollably

[@taylormckenzie3046]

I really love how often you connected the name and face Garry Newman instead of saying Mr. Valve's name even once haha, he doesn't need the extra recognition.

[@KamiJoJo]

4:59 Nobody can deny the pink cookie, a certified Valve Snack.

[@ThinkingProblem]

Does anyone remember that Explosive Barrel gamemode? It was really simple but so much fun, it was 2 teams 1 of barrels and the other were humans armed with modified USP's that had more ammo but fired slower. Exploding a regular barrel usually resulted in HP loss or typically death just like in prop hunt and It worked like infection starting the game with a single sentient barrel, each kill adding a new teammate. I miss it so much...

[@trashcan6340]

I remember playing that. The map was a field of explosive barrels and you had to look for the ones that moved. Very fun.

[@zergooo72]

I have a feeling that Melon Race was removed from GMod much later. I remember seeing it in a 2006 build of GMod 10, and some builds of GMod 11. From what I know, the build of GMod 10 shown here is from 2007, plus the gamemode might have been removed by someone that made a copy of it for some unknown reason. From what I remember, Melon Race in GMod 11 looked a lot like what you see in 6:02, with the weird baby compass thing. Keep in mind that I never played the game back then and was just fooling around with copies of old GMod version floating around the internet, so it's possible that the community might have tampered with it, although the ones I have found are pretty clean and have no mods.

[@CornKaine]

Only ever played MelonRacer once or twice back when I got Gmod, but holy shit was it a good once or twice. Seriously glad to see people still remember it, thanks for the video and port mate!

[@scientidead]

When I was younger I didn't had steam, and my father was able to install me a Gmod 9 version of it when I requested his help to get it, I think Gmod 12 was in that moment on steam because there was videos from Gmod tower going on. And melon racer was the only thing I was able to understand xD. Also the outro song be slapping

[@spore124]

Melon Race was something I really enjoyed in the days before GMod became paid. I haven't though about that default map for quite some time, but memories came flooding back when I saw it and the rest of the Gmod 9 gamemode page. However, I was hoping with this video you'd be able to find some more of the maps people made for it. I have a very scant memory of one that had a few height levels of track and along the highway at the top there was a fast headcrab zombie, but I probably haven't seen that level for 15 years. I also remember a handful of very futuristic looking melon race maps that were loaded with secrets you could find if you were bored of trying to get the best lap time. Point is, there were definitely more custom maps than was given credit for, but who knows how much of that stuff remains on hard drives around the world today.

[@Vincent654]

I like the part when the melon is racing, against another melons!

[@ESCalation]

Man you triggered old memories with this video. Awsome, now I wanna play it.

[@engine4403]

The song used at the end of the intro is "Calm4" by Notch and is a now unused music file in minecraft

[@axelmagdaloran]

I didn't even knew that MR was an official gamemode. A lot of time passed since I last saw a melon race server, miss those times...

[@sniperstyx]

7:42 i met him on a s&box gamemode that had something to do with a tycoon he only said "i don't know what i'm doing here" 5 mins before the server crashed

[@confusion8579]

garry moment

[@Skellyys]

I actually first experienced melon race in CSGO i'm pretty sure, with a workshop map back in january 2017, but pretty cool to know its roots are way older than that.

[@Har0x]

I remember years ago when I was running GMod servers I found an old copy of Melon Racer that had been ported from GMod 9 to GMod 12 and then was able to use that to port it to GMod 13 to run on one of my servers. Unfortunately it didn't get much popularity at the time and I stopped running the others (SledBuild, Pirate Ship Wars, Flood). Wish I'd shared the code I had at the time so others could have had servers up too. Happy to hear it has been released on the workshop. Event more happy to hear it will be remade in S&box. :)

[@rileyraccoon9673]

Man its cool to see you actually get a chance to chat with Garry. That is one fantastic dude!

[@chocofrolik834]

Fun Fact: the Episode 2 watermelon model and its chunks were compiled under the Episode 3 src folder.

[@cabinoot]

I love your videos man. Theyre so different from anything ive ever seen before. You cover things that are so interesting and legitimately important for source game history.

[@jordanrobinson9535]

Have you done a video on gmod 9 lua viruses? I remember back in the day making my own lua "virus" that spread like a virus and made the server look infected just like the actual viruses. But if you tried to use any of the common virus concommands it would announce it to the server, freeze you in place, spam your console with audio clips and unbind all your keys. I got to see it spread to a number of servers since I'd play zombie mod a lot and randomly see my chat message announcement pop up. Soon later gmod 10 was released and the whole thing abruptly ended.

[@Gigakoopz]

3:03 Why did you add the bowser laugh from hotel mario when showing Garry's face? So random lol

[@DR-54]

This is super similar to the super blocky ball community for roblox in fact, this was a really popular gamemode (except you were in a sphere) in the older days of roblox from like 2007-2014, since in 2006 most people didn't really know what to do with it and 2007 was only just starting to move in that direction. I wonder if the creator of that gamemode (which then got mirrored and mutated into SBB) had connections to the melon race community. The style of the race track is nearly identical to how SBB does it, although you have more controls (A and D move you side to side and allows you to turn harder) and you can't be killed by smashing into something, but if you smash into something it bounces you backwards a lot and that gives a massive precision and speed curve that you talked about. There's an economics term exactly for that kind of trade off, it's the production possibility curve, literally. You follow that accordingly to your own playstyle, it's actually funny how complex such innanely simple mechanics can get on a paper level. I find myself regularly going back to the idea of many games we play sharing a lot of similarities with chess. Chess is a game with very simple rules and mechanics, yet it is one of the most intricate and deep board games that is commonly played with hundreds of years of strategizing and complex mathematical algorithms that can't even solve the game. In that aspect, this form of racing is a similar situation where simple mechanics make for complex competition. Before anyone says, I know that both were obviously inspired by super monkey ball. I mean, super blocky ball literally makes that obvious, but the map designs for SBB and melon racing are more similar to one another than to SMB and the control schemes are entirely different, being adapted for a more (at the time) limited platform. The game completely changes when you remove the tilting mechanic and use a more standard moving mechanic, it's like how CSGO and Valorant play similarly but are totally different games on the paper level because of the more limited utility on Valorant.

[@cactisiusninja]

the guy who knows about the one instance of socks in the half life series talks about rolling melons

[@angel-0f-heaven]

I hope lazer dance gets a rework by the comuninity- That looks like one of the most fun modes ever, and its sadly nonexistant. MODDERS, GET TO IT!

[@someguy1894]

looks like its fun but prob get bored in a minute if its just that

[@yumemcflufferson9534]

this channel is a history channel i watch at 4 am

[@TutorialVideos935]

I still remember the time when I played this as a kid it was in my Dads old laptop for is job ( He was a SGT in the U.S. Army ) and he pirated a GMod version I still have till this day GMod 10.

[@Elipsis_]

Babe wake up, new Richter Overtime video out

[@HostileMustache]

I was watching a video about what a snail looks like inside their shells, but hey, i'm here now

[@moderndemon84]

Link?

[@HostileMustache]

@@moderndemon84 here you go, pretty interesting: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGnRZYyiqMh8mKs

[@moderndemon84]

@@HostileMustache Agreed,thanks!

[@ThisIsAnAccount]

Man, I don’t think I could ever express just how thankful I am to Garry for creating what he did. Incredible part of my life and so many other peoples as well. It’s really cool to see in the comments of your videos how so many thousands of other people also share the same sentiment. So thanks Garry, for one hell of a game.

[@juanletsplay1550]

What Richter did with this silly little documentary would be like if a historian did a documentary on a silly painting from the middle ages, went back in time and asked the painter about it

[@mkontent]

I remember a long while back (but after the commercial release of Gmod) I decided to reassemble Gmod 9 in standalone form, the pieces were Gmod's mod folder, the engine (I don't remember whether it used Source SDK or HL2), the content from HL2 (probably) and SteamEmu to make sure it runs standalone. And then ofc I played it and that was my introduction to Melon Race. I fell in love and had some good fun with it, and always wondered why this never made into the commercial release

[@wolfcl0ck]

Gotta say, watching the melon race saga take place in real time over the course of several months, followed by seeing this video pop out? Satisfactory.

[@SpartanS117C]

Richter better get credit for the melon race revival. In some way.

[@MaxBobbitt]

Awesome video. Melon Race was my introduction to Gmod, my dad installed it on our computer and we would play it all the time! Also the one with the seagull trying to poop on the guy, but Melon Racer was always our favourite.

[@curtibirdie3595]

That's pretty cool of him that he was willing to chat about it

[@mrwri]

I miss this mode so much.

[@alexweingart1650]

I actually had this version of GMOD on a computer for a couple of years. I still have vivid memories of the things i made back then. I remember Melon Race also. It was really fun because the watermelon breaks, so the real trick is learning the track so you could always have soft landing and stuff. Thanks for reminding me about being a teenager and racing melons at 3am with my friends.

[@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74]

Gmod 9 was so amazing. A lot of great mods were left behind in the transition from 9 to 10

[@rlfpotatoking9253]

Yeah! i miss old Gmod. Gmod 11 - 12 was honestly peak old gmod with the toybox and everything, then gmod 13 came which modernized everything.

[@OssyFlawol]

look mom its me 8:28

[@Asghar19019]

User?

[@OssyFlawol]

@@Asghar19019 not the leaderboard

[@Mansquic]

Only 4 likes? Lemme fix that

[@420Crows]

0:23 that mario model will never be seen the same

[@stradasours]

I need a full version of that melon song fr fr

[@zee_scoot]

same

[@picture_panic]

more like melon face because the melon has a face on it

[@Dusty2455433]

Please do one on Gmod Fretta and Garryware!! Those were some of my favorite gamemodes and the fact the players in the server have control over the next gamemode was amazing. Some of the highlights from my time playing Gmod

[@thealandude9146]

Wholesome conversation, can't wait for more melon racer in S&box

[@itstqt]

1:55 ahhhhh, Halo CE Magnum my beloved

[@NLind]

Man seeing that screen at 2:16 brings back memories. MelonRacer too, I remember it played a snippet of Running in the 90s, or maybe that was a certain map/server or another mode.

[@GorgeousGeorge056]

Richter coming out with bangers. Lets go Richie

[@ThisIsLin138]

Bro really sparked Garry to making melonrace into his new game

[@chips989]

5:38 good choice of music, I love Cortex Command. Why don't you do a cortex command video? :)) It could use the exposure and since it went open source its still being deleveoped by the community

[@exnems]

I honestly couldn't believe my ears the moment I recognized it. Game's so obscure nowadays that there's hardly a noticable playerbase for the game anymore. Pleasant surprise to hear it in this video.

[@Mattdotnfo]

wow this is incredible. I played garrys mod from a very early stage. back when the game was a free mod and every few months a new version would be released (garrys mod 7, 8, 9 etc) I even remember when the game came out officially and having to beg my father to buy it for me. I had completely forgot about it until watching this video, but I remember when this version of gmod came out and playing all of these goofy game modes with my brother and friends during our lan parties. for some reason I particularly remember the bird poo game. pretty sure all you did was fly around and poop on stuff haha. I also remember playing a lot of laser dance with my friends. I probably played every single one of these game modes to try them when this version came out. crazy to me that these were such a big deal to me and then just disappeared. just seeing the images for the different game modes really brings me back. I don't think I would have ever even realized how much of this I remember if you hadn't made this video. really brought back a lot of lost memories. thanks so much.

[@rlfpotatoking9253]

Me and you have similar stories! except for me, I was introduced to Gmod in 2012 with GMod 9, then I got cracked/pirated versions of Gmod 11 and 12 (12 is my favourite), then I had to beg my father to buy me the steam version (Gmod 13)

[@beezin4374]

"this is a watermelon" "dear god" "theres more" "no"

[@bmjames]

This brought back a memory I didn't know I had, of playing melon race in the early gmod days

[@alexniklaus6216]

I had no idea Gary founded facepunch. The internet really was a smaller place back then.

[@aydin8089]

I enjoy seeing Richter Overtime posting

[@MrSHURIKENCHO]

Brought a tear to my eye... Gmod has always been one of the most special games in my life. Thank you for keeping it alive!!!!!

[@vrak24]

Holy shit seeing old steam with the Gmod thumbnail brought back some feelings

[@mattuiop]

Always remember playing melonrace when I first got gmod. Also worth mentioning the flood gamemode. Extremely underrated classic.

[@smn2005]

Props to Richter bringing back Melon Racer to s&box

[@endythecat8409]

After watching this video I remembered another Gmod addon called Melon Wars (a rewritten version of other addon WarMelons). It's pretty fun to play it with friends. What's sad though is that it's discontinued. Melon Race is also a great gamemode. Damn, it's one of the greatest gamemodes for Garry's Mod.

[@ctrlaltrepeat245]

I really didn't expect Richter to be able to get into contact with Garry on the topic of Melon Racer Still just shows that Garry knows the Gmod history more than anyone, and if anything it shows that he still holds a little passion for his creation today. I was originally hesitant on S&Box replacing Gmod, but now I think it'll be great to have a small piece of obscure Gmod history present in that game.

[@OfficialNinjaSkillz]

MelonRace will be brought back thanks to this

[@Ceremor]

It is so cool seeing you and ratlobber cover all these niche source/goldsource things. Really cool to get more insight on all this stuff even all the way in 2023

[@Ripvanwinkle_1899]

0:01 dear god....

[@MeAMoose]

There's more

[@Ripvanwinkle_1899]

@@MeAMoose no...

[@V0IDWARE]

Glad we're all on the same page lol

[@Onetruefreeman]

Always wondered why there was a “melon race” card.

[@snowguy]

i was thinking at the start richter lost his mind and started talking about watermelons and how they are aparently a gamemode

[@Awitaa115]

this guy can make a 10 minute video about a melon in a game, amazing

[@Landayne]

melon racer is the best melon game on the market!

[@figo3554]

I'm happy you managed to inspire him to start working on melon race again.

[@EddieBurke]

Man I remember playing this when I was like 9 in 2011, with one of the revival projects. It was really fun. Put 2000 hours into Gmod between 2010 and 2016

[@frikobraun]

And here I was thinking this video was going to be about Extreme Football Throwdown! So many fantastic GMod gamemodes lost to time...

[@gorkywaves]

0:48 WOWIE BOI YOU USED CALM_4 FROM MINECRAFT

[@emerson-biggons7078]

It's fascinating that the biggest Gmod KZbinr is Vanoss, he is the only one that STILL plays it too.

[@fortyonesix2028]

0:02 Richter: "This, is a Watermelon." Me: "Dear God." Ricther: "Theres more." Me: *"No"*

[@ocotillo8291]

I made a melon racer map long ago with some wacky tunnels and jumps. I recall even Garry joined my server to check it out! Sadly the HDD containing the map file was lost so there is no evidence of my map ever existing

[@Nietabs]

i'm amazed you managed to talk to the illusive man himself

[@ArcadeStriker]

Melon Race 100% looks like something I would have been obsessed with years ago like with Marble Blast and Super Monkey Ball; I'll be checking this out soon whenever I can to see how I can fare without harming the poor melon lol

[@vreikezen8268]

Richter might’ve just made a new game mode for s&box

[@camilorodriguez5602]

the fact that probably garry will add melon racer to s&box thanks to you its mindblowing

[@bigbyrd7755]

You never really feel how old you're getting until some kid on the internet calls things you clearly remember when you were 18 "long forgotten history."

[@Markmarki-nj7te]

this crazy man really contacted garry's, you're a leyend

[@FluffyChops]

I've played this mode before, didn't know the gamemode was even older then what i knew. Someone recreated this mode in like 2012 with like 10 - 20 maps can't recall how many exactly but i recall it being around that range. It had a decent playerbase of people joining in the servers for about 3 months and then everyone left basically killing it off once again. Perhaps the worst time for the gamemode to come back as everyone went off to play trouble and terrorist town, murder mystery , slender and dark RP etc etc. But yeah even tho i wasn't around gmod before 2009 killed it off i at least played this mode before even if it wasn't exactly the oringal but at least it had more maps to enjoy on. I am glad this gamemode can finally turely live on once more for a 3rd time at least. Anyways thanks for this documentary history.

[@oShadowkun]

I remember melon race with buddies back in the day. Appreciate the video

[@grahamskaggs4376]

I think the phrase "so simple but with so much potential" sums up Gmod as a hole