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I grabbed the free copy…and then fell down the rabbit hole and bought a bunch of other HL games for $6.

I'm just now getting into PC gaming via Linux. I've always had a Mac, so I missed a bunch of games like Half Life.

Now I'm wondering when I'll get to play any of them…

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Then that worked! Multiply $6 by 500,000. And Valve's got themselves a cool 3+mill.

I'm about to do the same! Genius marketing on valves part!

I was looking at all the $1 titles, and realized it wasn't worth the $5 I might save to figure out which ones to take and which to leave.

Half Life was one of the games that has native ports an run fine on OSX before Catalina.

One of the worst things that happen to MacOS is cutting support. Apple really is careless about gaming :(

Apple doesn't care about backwards compatibility at all. Mac software is OS version dependent, and the OS version is hardware dependent, and if you don't have the approved OS and hardware combo then tough luck.

Say what you will about Windows and Microsoft, but they live and breathe backwards compatibility.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/windows-95-went-the-...

I agree, more on this:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...

If you have a VR headset, you could try the excellent VR mods for them, which makes them much more impressive to play nowadays in my opinion!

Black Mesa (the game) is also factastic. Highly recommend!

I played through Black Mesa the game after visiting the “crowbar collective” booth at pax east, and missing half life the first time around. Really loved it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

My understanding is Black Mesa is a half life with modern graphics. So now original half life is updated…

And a complete overhaul of the "Xen" area, which was the weakest part of the original game.

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