Half-Life Sierra & Valve Intro

If you saw this, you knew you we're going to have a great time.

[@gambini_modding]

Half Life was never the same for me after they changed this for the steam version. That Sierra intro was like the door to the future, and the Valve faucet guy, so uncanny and intriguing... It did put me in the perfect mindset. Wish it was brought back.

[@LordVader1094]

It really is too bad they changed it. I wonder, is there any way to bring back the old intro?

[@gambini_modding]

@@LordVader1094 If you rip it from a good source and convert it to bink video, then put it in the right folder, yeah..!

[@rottenmind6991]

Good news, they actually brought back most of what you wished, including the Valve guy. No Sierra logo tho for obvious reason.

[@StickRV]

​@@rottenmind6991you can mod

[@farhaddeya670]

Yes the valve guy intro has brought back to the 25th anniversary version, except the sierra intro

[@zyriuz2]

now thats a logo i havent seen in a long time, i used to have the sierra version of half-life

[@Dark.Flame97]

zyriuz2 I still have it, the CD version. When I put its code on Steam it gave me all the Goldsrc games.

[@zyriuz2]

XxTeo11xX (DarkFlame) i still have it too although my copy was burnt to us from one of my dads coworkers i think or somebody we knew when he got our first PC ^^

[@Dark.Flame97]

zyriuz2 Do you still have the serial number of the game?

[@zyriuz2]

XxTeo11xX (DarkFlame) it came with a keygenerator so its pirated. Although i played the expansions later on because i lended a friends copy of the sierraversions of both opposing force and blue shift.

[@phrodendekia]

I remembee the Counter Strike code was thirteen times 3 lol

[@YoutubeUser2013lol]

that sierra studios logo was so advanced for the time of 1998, i still admire on how great they were at their graphics design

[@johnathanflores7750]

Most 90's PC games had an epic intro like this. It's the best feeling when starting a game, gets me hyped knowing it's gonna be a good game.

[@vivaperuporsiempre]

Aqui es donde todo empezo.... OMG, OLD AND GOLD

[@Sierra19204]

when you see red λ icon on desktop, you double clicked on it, and this appears:

[@brivera98]

Memories of the Counter-Strike 1.0-1.3....

[@phrodendekia]

3333333333333

[@jHatKaclyre]

@@panzermann1181 comrade

[@phild.4545]

1.5 on LAN for me

[@Orin.]

1 word: Revolutionary. That's how you simplify such an amazing intro for an epic game.

[@KingLich451]

r.i.p. sierra...

[@Televisionprovincechinaindiako]

Half Life did you guns cardboard that guyy🎉

[@REA987]

WON version, good old days.

[@aaoppe]

Brings back fond memories.

[@Uroboros303]

Dam bro it's nostalgic when I launched CS 1.6

[@nomadic9999]

Millennials had the best childhood

[@KamiKaZantA]

If you are a PC gamer and wasn't around in the late 90s and early 00s, then I'm sad for you. It unironically was a great time.

[@killeranime3591]

@@KamiKaZantAI was born in 2002 so in those days I wasn’t either a cell or a tiny baby

[@hadesmcfadden2982]

@@KamiKaZantA there's nothing really to be sad about. With emulation and projects like eXodos people coming in after the fact can enjoy these games and experiences without needing to mess with antique hardware. How about we lift up up and coming gamers instead at best feel sorry for them and stoke their FOMO, or at worst belittle them as "lessor" because of the games they play or have today? No one can help when they born.

[@KamiKaZantA]

@@hadesmcfadden2982 Emulators is not the same as living through that period of time. It was an experience when internet was becoming more mainstream in the mid to late 90s, games solidifying into genres, and meeting up for LAN parties. There's more than just the games.

[@matiguzman7370]

Al ver esta Intro al abrir HL me lleve una impresion la foto del tipo con la Valvula en el ojo que un poco mas me lo creia que era real

[@peepsbates]

Good nostalgia. Also the Sierra logo FMV that was used for Homeworld.

[@trbatuhankara]

Press ESC

[@YoutubeUser2013lol]

wont that quit the game?

[@vaneskeyan]

​@@KZbinUser2013lolno. Eso era en Windows 95

[@velijandro]

my childhood belongs here

[@TheLisonFox]

Counter-Strike 1.5 also had this intro

[@sr.alligator7569]

Imagine if the Half-Life IP stayed with Sierra, and later on to be owned by Activision Blizzard of all companies.

[@MondySpartan]

Meanwhile in an alternate universe... Loot Boxes in HL2 Deathmatch

[@Bauglir100]

And then it would be owned by Xbox alongside Halo, Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake, Heretic/Hexen, Fallout, and so many other video game franchises.

[@LordVader1094]

@@MrNPC And it'd be terrible.

[@j76323]

Recuerdo desbloqueado? Creo... 😑

[@pedu5322]

Old but gold , I still have HL 1.0.1.6 and 1.1.0.4

[@phrodendekia]

Do you remember Ricochet?

[@vaneskeyan]

Also sven coop

[@MohammedAlMauedSYR]

Yes

[@ToronjaBottYT]

Won version of half life, Nostalgia on :')

[@istanbuldepremineonlemal]

Korkudan önceki başlangıç

[@Not_Ellis_McKinney]

Ahhh god old memories...

[@DrFox96Live]

90s back :D

[@viniciusdalcoldefaria5008]

CS 1.5 Lan house nostalgia

[@tripek7951]

aż mnie ciary przeszły

[@n1ght0wllkrew]

i know i freaking have a cd of won half life somewhere but idk where lmfaoooooo

[@enfaros837]

half life before is better than now, the intro, main menu and the others😭

[@fashionofthechrist]

So this is where the video game industry begun.

[@asdfjklo234]

Not the video game industry, but the first story-driven FPS ever maybe, the first game that made you feel like being part of a film.

[@Andres33AU]

@@asdfjklo234 To me it was the first FPS game that made Doom look obsolete.

[@Bauglir100]

@@asdfjklo234 Strife was story-driven and that came out two years earlier. And on the Doom engine, no less.

[@asdfjklo234]

@@Andres33AU What about Quake?

[@asdfjklo234]

@@Bauglir100 Oh, okay, that's why I said "maybe". I guess Half-Life put it all together in a way that blew people away, while Strive can claim the title for first story-driven FPS and a couple of mechanics in volved with that, and Valve then added several other innovations leading to a watershed moment in gaming. I mean, few are talking about Wolfenstein 3D either and more about Doom for some reason, and to me again, Quake was the first "real" 3D FPS - though with no real story (maybe a few shattered incongruent elements of Lovecraft, medieval and sci-fi), and that is the difference between id and Valve.

[@1992eylul]

Half life

[@Bauglir100]

To think that this could’ve been one of the IPs that Microsoft acquired when they bought Activision Blizzard. If only the IP had stayed with Sierra…

[@shampo0oLWD]

Bless our savior GabeN.

[@Bauglir100]

@@shampo0oLWD Well to be fair, Activision Blizzard would've probably butchered the IP before Microsoft got a hold of it. So yes, amen to GabeN.

[@sr.alligator7569]

Had Valve lost and Siearra (Than just a brand name within Vivendi Universal Games at that point) won the court settlement over the ownership of the Half-Life IP. I would imagine the outcome of the publisher releasing a bunch of mixed to low-quality rushed out games. The series could've suffered the same fate as the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro series.

[@JVRonNET]

I realized I played HL CS 1.3 CS 1.5 and CS 1.6

[@ManuStratocaster]

Vaya recuerdos que me trae esto jajajaja

[@RumCraft]

oye me puedes poner el juego para descargar=?

[@ToronjaBottYT]

@@RumCraft perdon por responder tarde, pero yo se los puedo pasar

[@RumCraft]

@@ToronjaBottYT no pasa nada jaja creo que ya me descarge y norte como 500 veces jaja hace 4 años ya fue

[@PolythenePam0451]

this always annoyed the shit out of me because you couldnt skip either of these

[@unr34L-]

WON version best version

[@Geekysam713]

Woh bhe kya badiya din teh.

[@Eps1Lon55]

hello indian

[@blueshadowmandanish5675]

hl1? thats goddamn old

[@vonbraunprimarch]

And?

[@asdfjklo234]

...gold

[@vaneskeyan]

.

[@Phantasmagoria32]

I miss this version... good ol days is gone because traumatized idiots ruined steam

[@pref1sc780]

C. s first

[@captainpelmenientertainment]

Half life won

[@sungjin008]

Sierra >>>> Valve

[@vonbraunprimarch]

Not in a million years.

[@wavsnackssss]

Valve made the game. I think you mean Sierra >>>> Steam.

[@Bklyn93]

@@wavsnackssss Valve would not have been able to make the game if they weren't given funding and support by Sierra. Sierra owned the Half-Life rights until 2000 when a new CEO sold them to Half-Life stupidly. Valve went to over a dozen studios to pitch the game and Sierra was the only one interested as all the other established companies felt Half-Life was too risky. Half-Life was supposed to be released in late 1997 and when it missed its deadline, Sierra's CEO personally stepped in and said it would not be cancelled, saving the project.