# Gordon Freeman calls Coast to Coast AM **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 1, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-freeman-calls-coast-to-coast-am/479518 "2009-01-01T22:53:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-freeman-calls-coast-to-coast-am/479518/1 "2009-01-01T22:53:59Z")
I’ve never seen this before. It’s amusing: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biqnL84l85s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biqnL84l85s) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-freeman-calls-coast-to-coast-am/479518/2 "2009-01-01T22:59:49Z")
Reminds me how much I am looking forward to the conclusion of the HL2 series. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-freeman-calls-coast-to-coast-am/479518/3 "2009-01-01T23:51:51Z")
Oh, dear, I am amused. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-freeman-calls-coast-to-coast-am/479518/4 "2009-01-02T00:12:56Z")
Wow did that really happen? Absolute genius 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-freeman-calls-coast-to-coast-am/479518/5 "2009-01-02T16:08:31Z")
You’re the sole reason I even know who Gordon Freeman is Hoopy. I liked your sig so much on the other board I googled Glados then I had to buy a PS3\* so I could play Portal. Unfortunately, I got stuck on level 15 because I’m too damn slow to hit the butoon in both rooms and shoot the two new portals.:mad: So I thought I’ld try this Half-life 2 game that came with it and discovered that I really, really like killing zombies.🆒 Who knew? \*Please don’t tell me I bought the wrong system, it was a compromise. Mrsin never, ever plays video games but I conviced him it was a good idea because of the blue ray player. So what game should I get next? And would you mind coming over to my house and getting me past that damn level 15? ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-freeman-calls-coast-to-coast-am/479518/6 "2009-01-02T17:11:11Z")
Is level 15 the one where you have to click the two buttons which open up the energy ball-proof doors so that you can get an energy ball into the receptacle and finally activate the lift that gets you out of there? That part _was_ a pain in the butt. A little too “twitch” for my likings in what is mostly a puzzle game. But I think consolers at at a slight disadvantage when it comes to twitch anyway. Analog sticks just can’t compare to a mouse. (I play all modern games on a 360 because my computer was a high-end home rig back in 2003. It can’t do much with modern games.) If you have a halfway decent computer you should look into getting the original Half-Life, though. Most of the jokes in the link above are a reference to it. I particularly enjoyed the “I thought he was the administrator but he turns out he’s not” bit. It’s a reference to how when HL1 came out, there were mentions of the administrator of the Black Mesa facility throughout the game. Everyone assumed the G-Man (who has yet to be given a canonical name in any of the games) was the administrator, until HL2 came out and showed that the administrator was really Dr. Wallace Breen, and the G-Man has his own agenda. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-freeman-calls-coast-to-coast-am/479518/7 "2009-01-02T18:17:33Z")
That’s exactly the part I’m stuck at. My computer right now sucks. I listened to my kids and bought a macbook, bleh, and I use a tablet computer at work. We travel too much to ever have a desk-top computer again.