

This is when the ugly face of DRM raised up and made itself known to me. So I got myself an era appropriate beastly Geforce 6800 GT, and got to work. I spent some time thinking for a use case, and retro being a thing now, researched the hardware/software used during it's era, turns out Windows XP was the way to go. Through a friend, an old computer from 2003 falls into my lap.

Anyway, I sucked it up when they introduced friends lists, because I could spam memes to friends as I head shot them in-game, and all was well.įast forward to today. I wasn't really interested in Steam at first, I was focused on performance and didn't want it "hogging all my memory" because I had to keep it open to play. Anyway, amongst other things, on the discs came Counter-Strike: Source, and Steam. I bought the Gordon box art, in case you were wondering. I bought Half-Life 2 near enough to release day.
