For those unfamiliar with the television program, Mystery Science Theater 3000 consists of bad sci-fi movies with humorous heckling added. This game changes the medium, but keeps the spirit. Matt Barringer's Detective is mercilessly lambasted in imitation of the show's silly and irreverent style. If you've never seen the show, you might not get much out of it; if you've neither seen the show nor played Detective, you'll probably want to give this one a miss, although the use of multiple narrative voices (the original game and the commentary) is interesting once you notice it.

Rating: Not rated

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

mst1agt.zip (202.16 KB)

AGT executable (version: Release 101, ported by Graeme Cree, bundled with MS-DOS runtime)

mst3k1.zip (84.08 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 101, original competition release (includes source code, game file, and walkthrough))

mst3k1.inf (129.53 KB)

Inform source code (version: Release 101, Silver Screen Edition)

MST3K1src.zip (35.13 KB)

Inform source code (version: Release 7)

mst3k1_2.z5 (138.00 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 7, Latest version (no color scheme))

mst3k1.z5 (103.50 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 101, Silver Screen Edition)