The Obscure Midnight Club Websites From 2000...

[@righteousknighteous]

4:34 I mean, go back roughly 75-80 years and that IS what Paris would sound like.

[@CACTUS.mp4_]

HAHAAHAHHAAHAH this comment got me dead

[@metalcrow705]

this comment is gold,GIVE THIS MAN A MEDAL

[@Shinyodd]

BROOOO

[@acr_master5594]

*HANS RELOAD ZE FLAK CANNONE!*

[@illusionzerark8238]

@@Shinyodd can you guess the pokemon in my profile picture

[@lace8453]

Rockstar sounds like a cool gaming company, hopefully they grow huge one day.

[@Danielgil28893-x]

But they need to play smart! They can do a lot with Grand Theft Auto if they jump to full 3d with it

[@lace8453]

@@Danielgil28893-x True, thats a good idea actually. I'd play it a lot if they did that!

[@wazda6488]

I’m waiting to woosh someone here

[@janhib4712]

Hopefully they don't release the same game

[@TrueDeko]

@@wazda6488 well don't tell anyone

[@DonJoewonSong]

Absolutely lost it at the French Soundtrack!!!! 🤣🤣

[@seeris6289]

Bruh

[@nakimux]

Do be the driving like a boss king

[@tangerinedream8987]

*Bruh*

[@user-rj1js3lx9l]

omg omg joe donwon sogn oomg

[@aliathif7778]

The Don himself

[@Shinyodd]

Gaming

[@marsbars9775]

Gayming

[@realadamstark]

GaMiNg

[@st3amedham683]

Gaymaning

[@rune3090]

HI SHINYODD

[@sxg0017]

guaymingg

[@willschires7283]

Let's not forget how they shut down Times Square to shoot the cover picture for Midnight Club 1

[@mineko2219]

Thanks for the fact. Now, I can shutdown Comberth Harbour to promote the angry Tanager man’s submarine.

[@soldadoryanbr7776]

Just imagine, you're in the 2000's walking on the streets of New York, wearing a Adidas tracksuit with Adidas snickers, listening to the new tracks from KoRn, Slipknot and Linkin Park in your mini CD player with your burned discs,then, you notice that the streets are closed and all you can is a Chrysler, a Cadillac and a bunch of staff and photografers,damn...

[@trashedandbashed3871]

Ironically they ended up making the cover art mainly digital

[@Silva_GP]

@@trashedandbashed3871 They improved in computer.

[@frumpsterfire]

@@mineko2219 Let's not promote Mr crisp white sheets, we would become to powerful

[@countdoggo5026]

Ngl love the Paris theme sound track pretty sure it’s called “flak cannon’s fireing on bombers”

[@apexinstinct]

Hans!!!

[@xale3658B]

@@apexinstinct get ze flamenwerfer

[@apexinstinct]

@@xale3658B Ya!

[@henryrodgers7386]

You know it's a low-level bombing run when Gustav lights a De Havilland Mosquito on fire with ze flammenwerfer. - Is it bad I can easily spell flammenwerfer, but not "De Havilland Mosquito"?

[@Its_Me_Romano]

Nah it's called ISIS extramists running amock in Paris

[@GamingDad]

Buddy icons could be used in various instant messenger service programs like aim, msn messenger, icq etc. Mov files used to be played automatically in a browser pop up icm a quicktime plugin. Also half of the things most likely don't work anymore because adobe changed a lot of things in flash over the years. Eg your music player should still work perfectly if you jad the right flahsplayer version installed. Thank you for this trip down memory line btw. It was fantastic.

[@kasuraga]

Yeah, getting these old sites to work properly would probably require a VM running at least windows xp with some older version of flash player, quick time, and macromedia shockwave

[@realadamstark]

Just imagine how cool it was back then.

[@billytheshoebill5364]

69th likes nice also yeah its was cool more than that

[@marvinkurzmanowski5645]

I can feel the hype

[@blackmetalgoat9060]

@@billytheshoebill5364 why is 69 nice tho ? Lmao

[@idkhonestly9985]

@@billytheshoebill5364 69 the funni number haha

[@THE_Z43K]

I didnt imagine I was one of the ones to play them

[@MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz]

Yeah, Midnight Club: LA had a lot of sponsors and adverts during that time in '08.

[@bintangath1546]

yeah

[@traktor5634]

mc bad

[@pdg_strix2447]

I knew u would be here

[@bayareasportsfan04]

There's even a bunch of ads in the game too (Pizza Hut, American Apparel, etc.)

[@rubenito9921]

Sup Marcus

[@HikariSakai]

7:35 VLC is the best video software out of the 3 lmao, Windows media player and Quicktime are garbage. Also they didn't really give up on VLC per say, more or less websites don't really support it because it isn't super known for some weird reason, but VLC is by far the most popular software used for pirated video content lol

[@DiabloXL69]

VLC is used by teachers LOL, kmplayer is better

[@HikariSakai]

@@DiabloXL69 because VLC is the best one there is, minimal, clean and works fine. If you don't rip movies and shows I can understand why you wouldn't use it I suppose but everyone I know that torrents uses it lol.

[@DiabloXL69]

@@HikariSakai well if you like it, I respect ur opinion, but kmplayer has more features and can play more formats

[@Ro11oTomasi]

Yeah this guy doesn't know what he's talking about trying to roast VLC lol

[@HikariSakai]

@@Ro11oTomasi yea, I've been using VLC for well over a decade now for downloaded movies and shows or just playing videos in general and it's very good, you can even route a network playback through it

[@rume8776]

I still play MCLA till this day, game's aged well

[@Shinyodd]

I want to give it another shot, I never actually really liked it all that much as a kid

[@bayareasportsfan04]

Same. Still a great game. Needs a remaster

[@BigMan7o0]

@@Shinyodd I HIGHLY recommend it, It is the singe best racing game ever imo. Physics obviously aren't the best, but if you enjoy NFS the physics are better than most early NFS games (at least the ones I've played, which is definitely not all of them) and the customization is second only to NFS Carbon. Quite a lot of story/races and shit, decent amount of cars, progression isn't too hard or too easy imo.

[@llolinlaik]

@@BigMan7o0 midnight club 2 is the better game imo. The cars feel better to drive and the maps are way better. Plus the soundtrack is just unbeatable

[@BigMan7o0]

@@llolinlaik ive never played the older ones, so i have no opinion lol. I probably should tho, aren't they all on pc except for MCLA?

[@minoassal]

to find out who is the number 15 guy on the blacklist

[@CarbonPanther]

Mr. footlettuce?

[@TallTapper]

KuruKillMe

[@shotgunner2039]

Sonny?

[@pudim6248]

@@shotgunner2039 yea he is the nunber 15 on the blacklist

[@sakshamsharma5429]

KuruW

[@CarbonPanther]

Did you just insult me, using VLC? I'm speechless.

[@kenzowatchin]

@@Simelineon exactly VLC is so much better lmao. Opens anything and just works not like the shitty new Windows player that lags every time I click on something. (on my i9 9900k pc btw)

[@deixyis3806]

Anyone in this comment section, please at least use MPC HC, or better MPV

[@corollavirus4age]

Vlc is great wtf It just works Opposed to media player an the w10 player which runs like shit

[@SKGAMER-rh4lo]

I use windows xp from 2003Litteraly older than me

[@Wonderduck1]

@@deixyis3806 Even MPC-HC says not to use them anymore, and I'd use MPV, except it crashed to desktop every time I tried to play something over a gig in size. Meanwhile, VLC played everything just fine. So, no, I won't.

[@oskarifps]

I just went on the website to listen to the absolute banger soundtracks

[@chilledlife3531]

whats the website called

[@Hero-sp3xr]

I can’t believe that the first game is turning 20.

[@thetexanhusky]

And the PlayStation 2, for which the first game was first released to, just turned 20 years old (in regards to its North American release, that is).

[@not_herobrine3752]

aaand flash has been killed off, that means i cant play this anymore. rip

[@TheRiszey]

I can’t believe the latest instalment is 12!!!

[@SWAGGER573]

I was born the day that game came out

[@geekdelapolitique2461]

Midnight Club: the license I miss the most to this day. A well made and ambitious Midnight Club 4 would sell crazy imo.

[@geekdelapolitique2461]

@BLACK ICEYOU Technically you are right but LA episode was a deception for me, and not even called MC 4 anyway :) MC 3 is the real king of the license imo

[@geekdelapolitique2461]

@@TupacAintNoBitxh True. I was just speaking from the heart.

[@iElementGraphics]

I like how the icon for "import tuners" is just a dodge neon, and since most of the game takes place in the USA, a "neon" doesn't really count as an import LOL

[@F_o_l_d]

4:33 I am french and i can comfirm Paris sound like a mg42

[@izperehoda]

Mg42 fires way faster

[@c0baltl1ghtn1ng]

I may be a bit late, but I still use Winamp. I do not know the context of their obsession with spanking a Llama, either.

[@Wonderduck1]

Mike the Llama was the mascot for Nullsoft, the original creators of Winamp. They got the idea from a song by Wesley Willis: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ_XdZanhN2Aqa8. Don't ask what Willis was thinking, he probably didn't know either. He was a strange one.

[@kylesoler4139]

Rock over London, Rock on Chicago.

[@ro-337]

@@Wonderduck1 Interesting

[@kylesoler4139]

@@Wonderduck1 he had Schizophrenia.

[@mserra2]

Im glad i was lookin at the tweets for this if not i would've had a comeback hipotermia

[@podjy6289]

4:44 I mean it is what it sounded like on June 14, 1940 Edit: 4:39 is when u acctually hear it for some reason I put 4:44

[@slimcurry7117]

The french government gave up before they reached paris. It sounded like that during the french uprising in the city after Normandy though.

[@pali1H]

Cringy about VLC. It's still the most powerful free player with millions of downloads a month.

[@Dest2Op]

7:40 “Old People and School Teachers” laughs cause mom is a Teacher and uses VLC

[@play3rggg]

VLC is actually pretty good, open source as well

[@syednabeelakhtar9997]

Winamp too runs well,if you use flac music files

[@headxplosion]

tbh hes not wrong. In my school they always use vlc, but i have to admit, its good.

[@syednabeelakhtar9997]

@@headxplosion Vlc can run literally every type of video and music file type,The only problem is its windows 98 looking ui(a good skin can change it though)

[@Wonderduck1]

"VLC is for old people." I guess us old folks... I'm in my 50s... just appreciate things that, y'know... WORK... more than kids do these days. Now get off my lawn, I'm going to go watch a RealMedia video, and maybe even a Xvid, too.

[@lunar3g730]

8:31 it says Mitsubishi Lancer but I'm very sure thats a 3G Eclipse

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

"Mitsubishi Lancer Coupe" Ok im sorry

[@creamgravy1]

I remember MCII site wasn't blocked at our school in 07, and managed to download the demo. *AMAZINGLY* There were about 3 other people driving around in LA.

[@kamikazeclaymore]

Glad KZbin tossed you into the queue with triple jump, modest pelican, and other faves. I was a fan after just a couple minutes of the flat out 3 vid. Love your humor, especially the random quick cuts you throw in. Keep it up. You’re already one of my favorites.

[@Shinyodd]

thanks man I appreciate that a lot

[@usb-c]

A girl.... AND a gamer? Whoa mama! Hummina hummina hummina bazooooooooing! eyes pop out AROOOOOOOOGA! jaw drops tongue rolls out

[@Shinyodd]

falls on floor and explodes so hard

[@usb-c]

💥

[@CLOYO]

Bazinga

[@apexinstinct]

@@Shinyodd Phrasing

[@Elias_Harrison]

E

[@ThunderTHR]

We used to find these websites cool back in the day.

[@lordmegatron65]

I used to find stuff like this fascinating as a kid lol.

[@humakhan80]

There still cool

[@plottwist1733]

Yeah, I thought the Midnight Club 3 website was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. Seeing it again made me feel really nostalgic. I'll have to go mess around on it again before Flash Player disappears.

[@Bazzemboi]

@@plottwist1733 flash is gone and it hurts more than I initially expected. I mean the date caught me off guard. I forgot how old this video was 💀

[@noaharkadedelgado]

@@Bazzemboi where are the URLs????

[@Eeveethegamer26]

2 more days until this game turns 20 years old

[@eun5oo280]

Woah.

[@leoncaples2947]

One more day until this game is 20 years old

[@plottwist1733]

I can't believe it's been that long. I remember playing it at my cousin's house when I was 7. Good times.

[@BierBart12]

I'm convinced that that description ended at "to find out who is" These street racers' final goal is to answer the philosophical questions of life. Are we really? Who really "is"?

[@tougefox3927]

Wow, I grew up playing midnight club 3 when I was little. I remember I would always start with the 3rd gen eclipse. I actually just recently got my first car in real life, and it is a 3rd gen eclipse. Just a piece of information that I thought was cool, keep up the good work Shinyodd!

[@austinreed5805]

4:30 Paris Field Trip in 1940 Colorized

[@MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz]

Midnight Club: LA's website is probably my favorite.

[@tangerinedream8987]

Ofc

[@Vehiclavius]

But damn it’s still canceled

[@tangerinedream8987]

Bruh

[@trespass.3678]

bruh on every midnight club related video you pop up lol

[@kilog8366]

CANCELLED SOZ😔

[@m.k.mcgill]

Oh, god, the AIM Buddy Icons at 6:20 bring back some weird memories

[@Guaxivara]

Shinyodd: HE LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN BLIMP!!!! Me: *wheezes*

[@CturiX.IREALLY]

I might actually try these Winamp skins. I use Winamp regularly still.

[@Shinyodd]

I actually love the aesthetic of it

[@deejax7079]

Thank you for making this. Midnight Club was a huge part of my childhood. I thought all this shit was so cool, even the terrible body kits.

[@greyway9308]

i just realized its been more than 10 years since MC:LA was released

[@refraggedbean]

I still use VLC, it's good open source that actually supports other file formats unlike WMP

[@waifuracer6516]

The ost of this game is out of this world

[@A_furry69]

I just noticed the Minecraft background on 6:53 absolutely amazing

[@Shinyodd]

Indeed

[@ExecutiveAutomotiveSociety]

It wasn’t Rockstar, it was Angel Studios that became Rockstar San Diego (you can see their logo on the first sight) that also did Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar San Diego was mothballed and recreated right after MC:LA in a controversy. On Midnight Club 1, the cover is Dustin Worles of Mischief TV before he became famous.

[@calibration9792]

U know what? I wanna go back to the time when these games were still cool and new.

[@Shinyodd]

Same

[@ljphoenix4341]

10:48 video was great!! Nice to see something different every once in a while :)

[@adedhuman9582]

We could've gotten a new Midnight Club a long time ago if it weren't for Grand Theft Wiener 5 online

[@mildlystable]

Midnight Club: a game that lived then faded into obscurity but, still a great game from the 2000s

[@Spoggi99YT]

What a great video - thank you very much for the efforts creating this “time capsule”! Could you create a similar video for the GTA series websites? That would be amazing. Anyway, you’ve earned a new sub; keep up the great work :)

[@kevinghifari2330]

thank you very much, for this priceless time capsule

[@Marcelo-po1xl]

I love midnight so much, it is the game that made me play games at first, i rlly wanted they to make a sequel for midnight l.a, good old days

[@vampvhs]

That low pixel spinning wireframe 3D model motorcycle is the most 2000s thing I’ve seen in a while, and I love every bit of it

[@wumbogt3310]

HELL YEAH SHINY! I came from Discord RICE SIMULATOR YES

[@Stylesclash1no1]

I had the MC:LA screensaver on my PCs for years as a teen, it was pretty cool. Would cycle through images of the cars from the game with the city moving behind them, which blew my mind at the time. I remember it needed an internet connection though, weirdly, otherwise it'd just show the game's logo.

[@jalilbrown7739]

The Midnight club series was one of those series that I actually played all the games.

[@merginator]

I like how you have an idea, dive deep and add funny commentary. This style is like a little documentary of sorts. Archiving the garbage for our entertainment.

[@nickrustyson8124]

This reminds me they still have the sites for Vice City and Vice City Stories

[@DiabloXL69]

6:30 Shinyodd: goes to the trouble to make a Windows 7 vm and download winamp 3 Also shinyodd: *fails to notice that there is a screenshot of the skin at **6:30*

[@Cringepacket]

You have to admit, back in the days where the game was new... all this weird map and customisation shit was pretty damn cool. Especially being an underage kid who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the game🤣

[@Bruddah75]

THANK YOU FOR POSTING MIDNIGHT CLUB CONTENT !

[@mauricenorden3665]

the nostalgia, it's unbelievable

[@StewDogR]

These websites are actually pretty cool. Fun to go back and look at

[@Eggyteevee]

(4:16) oh yeah, he's a traveler. *HE LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN BLIMP* oh my God, I laughing so hard now XD

[@PSG51]

Thank you for showing this. You brought back some fine memories 🤧

[@solarwolf678]

I still have mid night club 3 for my ps2

[@FurryWrecker911]

1:24 now that tune brings back memories. Dom & Roland was responsible for most the New York songs in Midnight Club 1. Compare that to his later works and the same soul is there but my god did he improve. I'd love to have a new game with some of his songs from the No Strings Attached, Looking Glass, or Lost In The Moment albums. All his stuff in MC1 was assumingly custom made and one of his first major gigs and in MC3 that was when he mainly did singles and not EPs. I started following his career because of this game series.

[@blazamt]

3:40 Captions:Applause

[@madbomer72]

I can’t wait to have this show up in my recommendeds again in 5 years! See you then!

[@KaijuMobsta]

This company sounds like a good company. They sound like they care about their fans❤️ we need more of this

[@mazda9624]

Wow this video gets me pretty sad considering all of this will disappear tomorrow. Websites that have been online for 2 whole decades are about to all be erased from existence. Thank you for makimg this video so that at least some of these videos can be remembered forever.

[@funalky]

8:17 pog car?

[@crashmaster6122]

Woa. i just realized its oct 26 2020 for me today. Midnight club is officially 20 years old. Jeeeez time really does fly by

[@ConfusedOxygen]

Hey shiny, my cat passed away on Sunday but your vids have been helping. Thank you

[@Shinyodd]

sorry to hear

[@nismo3871]

Poor cat, may she rest in peace.

[@ConfusedOxygen]

@@nismo3871 yeah, he was a good cat

[@ConfusedOxygen]

Been 1.5 years... Damn, miss him a lot

[@jxun4l3ht10]

Haha i 'member that Winamp skin!

[@tenthyukillme2049]

You’re the best for linking the OST in the description

[@pirigrinfalcon6029]

Last time i was this early the automation series had just come out

[@FusionBeat]

LOved the video, I laughed the whole way keep up the great content!

[@el_coquinio]

Hi!, I am from argentina and i love your vid's and humor! Good vid btw

[@Generik97]

Midnight Club LA is still one of the best racing games to date. I wish they would remaster it already...

[@DimsWorld43]

Right mate, I'm subbed! I've lurked around a bit and seen the growth here and it's really motivational, keep it up Shinyboy

[@watt0455]

When I was young I was obsessed with Midnight Club LA. I'd play it all the time and when I was grounded and not allowed to play I'd just go to the Midnight Club LA website and look at it for hours. Glad to know its survived for so long. Its much more underwhelming than I remember though

[@Bubba_Main]

I don’t know if I could ever live without my flash games ever again

[@-xLucas]

there is a website that is trying to archive flash games flashgamearchive.com

[@synergzi6117]

Operating from 1987 until 1999, the Mid Night Club was one of the most notorious and highly respected street racing clubs to ever grace the Wangan highway between Tokyo and Yokohama. The leader of the Mid Night Club was an anonymous person who drove a Porsche and he held the nickname Blackbird after what he named his car, in order to join the Mid Night Club, your car had to go over 160mph and in order to be competitive you must be able to go over 200mph, note the Blackbird had the fastest car in the entirety of the Mid Night Club, the reason the Mid Night Club was disbanded, was because of a accident involving 6 motorists being hospitalized, the Mid Night Club members were known to have high morality and honor, thus they were respected by most people including the police force, they disbanded as a form of respect for those hospitalized during that accident.

[@CoconutFromNekopara]

This seems like one of those websites you would play on every day as a kid before you had a console

[@samandrew5643]

Finally a new video you miss you a lot Shinyodd

[@raphaellauf7786]

it just dawned on me how much rockstar reuses car models, the bestia is basically the albany buccaneer.

[@Shinyodd]

yeah pretty much

[@paulmonkey100]

No kidding, Midnight Club L.A. was my first PSP game and boy was it amazing... Open world, variety of cars, two maps (L.A. and Tokyo), all sorts of mods, you could even get hydraulics for your muscle cars, the cars themselves were divided into different classes and gave you different abilities to use to your advantage. You could do burnouts, get on some roofs even, a lot of jumps to explore, breakable windows in some buildings, cool shortcuts, multiplayer and a ton of game modes. It essentially was ahead of it's time, if you ask me and it's a shame, that the franchise isn't that popular, because it deserves it.

[@IwasThatCurlyFryGuy]

I grew up with these games😭

[@TACADD]

I remember going on the Midnight Club 3 website as a kid. I thought it was cool that you could view different car classes in the virtual parking garage.

[@PHRCpvh]

In the MC2 hotsite, the maps are made show the cities landmarks, you just have move the square around and click in the blue dots, then they will show you the in-game locations.

[@arizona_sunshine128]

I can't believe this was 20 yrs ago today

[@jonathanrice-exec11]

It's funny now but I remember as a kid going to these websites and being so excited for the newer Midnight Clubs to be released. These games were amazing for the time

[@a.i.nighthawk3499]

Surprisingly enough i still have Midnight club 2. It's real fun

[@nicoledelrosario6962]

Finally The Legend finally Is Bacl

[@darktrexcz]

The reason it works in VLC is because its an .MOV file, not because it requires VLC, back then it was Divx that everyone used, VLC is basically the modern Divx. They are basically notorious for being able to run any video file.

[@michaeldykstra626]

Please keep making videos. These are actual comedy. Lamooooo

[@jetstreamdefalpha5411]

I use to sit in my algebra class, plug in my headphones into the pc ,go to midnight club 2 .com and jam to the ost. That was back in 2004. Man I'm so old

[@FurryWrecker911]

Man, I remember browsing the Midnight Club LA website back in 2008, and just like the game itself, it worked until the South Central DLC dropped which broke a bunch of features.

[@fatoufaal9898]

Nice to see u back shinyodd

[@jascoolo]

Hello youngster, Quick Time viedos were cool

[@QB4NM1SS1L3]

Happy 20th birthday Midnight Club!

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

.mov clips are QuickTime, the default go-to in the early 2000s. And back in the days when it wasn't Adobe flash, it was Shockwave flash!