Plot
MDK's manual is in the form of the diary of eccentric inventor Dr. Fluke Hawkins, who discovers something he calls "Flange Orbits". However, when he broaches the scientific community with his discovery, he is ridiculed. Hawkins then builds a space station, the Jim Dandy, bribes his laboratory janitor, Kurt Hectic, with Hungarian Goulash, and launches both himself and Hectic into a self-imposed exile, swearing never to return to earth until he "comes up with some really good stuff." Upon reaching orbit, he realizes that "Flange Orbits" do not actually exist, but rather than return in shame, he begins work on a robotic dog that he calls "Bones" (although the dog prefers "Max").
Hawkins continues his work in relative peace until one day, he notices a strange phenomenon - streams of incredible energy headed straight for the earth. Hawkins sends down a warning (along with a basket of Max's oranges) but is promptly ignored. The streams proceed to disgorge innumerable hordes of enemies in "Minecrawlers", giant fortress-cities designed to strip the mineral wealth (and potato crops) from a planet. The military forces of Earth are subsequently crushed and so Hawkins decides to take action. Pairing his new "Coil Suit", a revolutionary armor suit capable of repelling "bullets, bees, and small but very hard sticks", and which holds a retractable/re-usable "ribbon chute" for parachuting or gliding, with an arm-mounted chaingun that also serves as a head-mounted sniper rifle, he has the perfect weapons suite. Kurt is the only one who could wear it, due to the Doctor's age and Max's extra pair of legs.
So, Kurt is dispatched on "Mission: Deliver Kindness", entering the Minecrawlers from above, and destroying them from the inside-out, shooting his way through to the "driver", and typically killing them in some rather violent fashion. Kurt fights his way through the Minecrawlers, destroying them one by one, until he comes to meet Gunter Glut, the hideous leader of the invasion. Kurt destroys the final Minecrawler but Glut escapes with Max in captivity, chased by Kurt along a stream leading to the alien homeworld. Kurt frees Max and kills Glut, ending the game. The ending is a monochrome mix of a French pop music video (Non Non Rien N'a Changé by Billy Ze Kick) and clips from the MDK promotion video.
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