Half Life: The Turning Point

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I definitely didn't play Chex quest or the Toy Story yeah no I don't think so yeah that was that was a funky little thing where they were you could tell it smart people realize there is a huge audience in in this space that wanted. Wolfenstein rise to triad was the one I was really into Red Neck. Unreal Tournament had like a great community of like map making folks and modding and like downloading models and stuff like that it's really awesome. Dark Forces the Star Wars like the original Jedi Knight Dark Forces was really good which was basically a doom clone but yeah I didn't get Half Life was like the turning point for me in terms of like oh you can actually do

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