# Half Life for $0.98

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-life-for-0-98/473626>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 20, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-life-for-0-98/473626 "2008-11-20T07:41:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-life-for-0-98/473626/1 "2008-11-20T07:41:02Z")

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To celebrate its 10 year anniversary, Steam is selling Half-Life for only 98 cents. Ends Friday, November 21 at noon PST.

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-life-for-0-98/473626/2 "2008-11-20T11:25:32Z")

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I loaded my old copy yesterday, and was thinking of mentioning how fun it was to play again. What a nice coincidence this is going on.

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**Author:** ![bobthebuilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobthebuilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobthebuilder)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-life-for-0-98/473626/3 "2008-11-20T19:20:50Z")

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I wonder if that can be used with the cool mods like Counter Strike or not.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-life-for-0-98/473626/4 "2008-11-21T01:13:51Z")

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Don’t see why not.

Shame I’ve already got HL.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-life-for-0-98/473626/5 "2008-11-21T04:50:51Z")

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Is this Half Life on the old graphics engine, or Half Life Source with the same physics but prettier graphics that came out with HL2?

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**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-life-for-0-98/473626/6 "2008-11-21T05:38:10Z")

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It was Half-Life: Blue Shift that had the updated textures, but on the same engine. Half-Life: Source had the textures from the original game, but used the Source engine for rendering and physics. From what I can glean, they’re selling the exact same thing that came out ten years ago.