Old School
<div class="IPBDescription">Half Life Style</div> Anyone here get half-life when it first came out?
First map i ever played was stalkyard on HLDM, i love that map.
When TFC first came out i was a sniper, but i ran round with the automatic rifle and when i sniped i pressed the button, not charge it. :/
When cs came out, anyone remember skywalking on cs_desert? Best map for getting to sniping places. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Dod is'nt that old... and i dont play it much, oldest thing i remember was dod_hill and spawn campers and the air strikes...
Post what you remember and how long ago you got half-life...
I was the 543323rd person to buy half-life, well atleast i think... ( Wonid )
First map i ever played was stalkyard on HLDM, i love that map.
When TFC first came out i was a sniper, but i ran round with the automatic rifle and when i sniped i pressed the button, not charge it. :/
When cs came out, anyone remember skywalking on cs_desert? Best map for getting to sniping places. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Dod is'nt that old... and i dont play it much, oldest thing i remember was dod_hill and spawn campers and the air strikes...
Post what you remember and how long ago you got half-life...
I was the 543323rd person to buy half-life, well atleast i think... ( Wonid )
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i bought the panther xl joystick a while back for other games i played, and it came bundled with half-life. Was a pretty good deal. at the time, my computer sucked (p133, 8mb ram, no vid card, etc.) and it took me about three weeks to play thru hl-single player (loading delays were sickening, and i considered 15 fps lucky), but i finally beat it, and loved it. i promptly uninstalled the game to reclaim my precious HD space <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
one year later i got a better computer, reinstalled it, tried counter-strike.
uninstalled two days later.
fast forward another few years. have a much better computer, heard about NS, dug out my old cd literally BURIED beneath an amazing amount of old junk, and installed. Loved NS. HL is on my hard drive for a record amount of time so far <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I also remember back when CS beta1 was released and it was nothing but an action half-life ripoff (it isn't anymore, but it sure was back then).
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Yep. Downloaded and played the original Uplink demo at work when it was first available (through the now dead 3dfiles.com, I think) and remember everyone standing around with jaws agape. Bought it the next day.
I picked up another copy 2 years ago, now my WONID is over 2.5 million. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
without a doubt. It was my first PC game and has outlived great
games like the Medal Of Honor titles, and even my beloved Tiberian Sun.
I've racked up so many countless hours on so many different
Half-Life based tasks, weather it be mapping, wandering aimlessly
around a Conumdrum map, downloading yet another mod ot simply
shooting Scientists and laughing as Barney chases me through the
Black Mesa facility shouting "Hey! Leave him alone!"
Ahh Half-Life.... I love it.
Oh and, does anyone know what happened to the rest of the Uplink
game/demo/mod/whatever that VALVe were working on?
I finished the demo maps and got to see a nice Gargantua monster
before seeing the infamous black screen, and the dreaded "to be continued"
message.
How do you check your WonID?
game/demo/mod/whatever that VALVe were working on?
I finished the demo maps and got to see a nice Gargantua monster
before seeing the infamous black screen, and the dreaded "to be continued"
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That was it. It was just a demo, nothing more. It wasn't going to be an addon pack or anything. The whole "to be continued" part was to get you to buy the full game. :P
The time i really got into playing online was with meh 64K ISDN and the first release of TFC.... got bored, then picked it up again when CS1.3 came out and i got ADSL <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->. Now atleast i can kill things <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> (quite often aswell)
I still enjoy playing the original HL game, and the Op4 and BlueShift addons occasionally.
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Connect to an internet game (or host one)
(Make sure its an Internet game and not a LAN as
the WONid's for Internet and LAN are different)
Bring down the console and type "status" <press enter>
It'll be listed there next to your player name.
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Got ya beat, I remember playing it on my parents Pentum 166mhz at 512x384 software mode...
My WON ID is just over 600,000
My wonID is low 300 000's (they don't go in perfect sequential order when handed out). I played it for the first time on a 486 with windows 95, it barely ran... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm using my friend's copy. He bought HL and CS, and just ended up giving me HL so we could play CS together.
I installed half life, and loaded up the SP. I was all anxious because everyone said it was the game of the year and everything. So I sit through the tram ride, all scared, and come to the end. The tram stops. I stare. It doesn't do anything. I keep staring. I uninstall, and go play Tribes.
A few months later, I loaded it up, and realized you could MOVE! Wow. So I played half life, but I'm a scaredy cat so I practically wet my pants just because there was nobody in the hallways.
HEHEHE we were responsible for the first "camping" in HL, on bootcamp in the center courtyard with the 2 tripmines, the health dispensor on the wall and the Gauss on the second level.
People comming from quake were always like "U f-ing camper" and we were like, "Its called tactical advantage buddy, the HL maps are designed for "camping" if you dont like it go back to quake" heheh ahh the good old days.. makes me feel all misty!
man I wished I kept my old CD key, I lost the case. They made us rebuy the game after the betas my OG won ID I dont know.. my current one is 192xxx
My wonID is low 300 000's (they don't go in perfect sequential order when handed out). I played it for the first time on a 486 with windows 95, it barely ran... :) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Um.. Comprox, I don't mean to correct you heh, but there's no way on earth HL would run on a system that low. It didn't even run on a Pentium 166...
DOOM ran on a 486. Quake managed to go by, but Quake 2 wouldn't even run on a 486, there's no way Half-Life would. :P
It most assuredly did, in fact I believe the minimum spec was stated to be 133mhz...
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i was able to crank out 10-15 fps on a pentium 133, 8 mb ram, running in software at lowest resolution.
My comp owned. Pentium Classic (200 MHz) with 32MB of RAM, TNT GraphicsBlaster board, 3 gig HD and a 33.6k modem. Ph34r.
In terms of other old-school games, I am sadly too young to relate to many of them. I remember my dad telling me about playing frogger all the time in his local coin-op laundry in college - so much so that his best friend (still his best friend, too) gave him a bunch of rolls of quarters to play frogger with as a birthday present.
Despite my youth, I do have some memories of classic games. Many of my friends were still pretty old school, and one even had a classic atari 2600. We played hours of games, mostly Space Invaders and Combat (tank pong ownz j00lz). I also remember the wonderful days of playing ascii-based RPGs on his dad's laptop.
Keep in mind that this was the same time period as the release of industry definers such as C&C, WarCraft II, Duke3D and many others. MegaMan games on NES were still great fun, and we would even sit back for a session of Wolf3D every once and a while. All-in-all, life was good.
I also remember playing my first games of D&D back then - the classic game to end all classic games. We played using a variety of rules, mostly due to the fact that everyone had different rulebooks. I had the newest AD&D sets and expansions, whereas some had the original books and other had some other set from times in-between.
My first games were all one-on-one, one DM and one player (I was always the player). We would have sleep-overs in massive forts built from cardboard boxes, old furnature and other items we could find and started a new campaign every time (what can I say, we were eight years old; our attention spans were trained to follow thirty-minute cartoon programs). We would stay up incredibly late against the orders of my mother (who to this day doesn't know of our secret D&D enterprises, or at least the extent that we carried them) - sometimes as late as two or three in the morning, <i>far</i> past our bedtimes. Campaigns often included solitary skulldugery and general ne'er-do-good-ness, due in part to the fact to our limited party size but also due greatly in part to our stealthy settings.
Ah... feels good to take a stroll down memory lane. I guess the only moral I can think of is to not shunt off young gamers as quickly as you may want to. While the high-pitched screech of a twelve-year-old on voice comm may be annoying, you have to keep in mind that that person may eventually mature - in the cases of my friends, into Cisco admins and Half-Life mappers, or in my case, to a game design hopeful. Don't smite their passions down too quickly; for all you know, they may be the next Carmack.
I remember when TFC had build menus for the sentrygun (to upgrade it and put ammo in it)
Now you just whack it with the spanner.
Played it off and on over and over.
my wonid is only "180279"
People who think Half Life is old school are getting into games the same age as I did. One of the first memories I have is of buying X-Wing. A whole lot more of my first memories are of playing X-Wing. On my birthday (Young birthday) I remember playing as much X-Wing as I could before the party started and I had to stop. Hehe.