Playing Half-Life With a Real Gun

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A team of super-nerds at Waterloo Labs developed a system to play Half Life on a makeshift projector screen using a real gun.

The weapon of choice was a fully suppressed Ruger .22 but this author much prefers the nerd shovels that appear at the end of the video.

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17 Comments on this post.
  • asdfadsf
    8 August 2009 at 1:46 pm
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    They weren’t playing Half Life. They were playing a flash game knockoff of Half Life that anyone can play on the web.

  • asdfadsf
    8 August 2009 at 1:46 pm
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    They weren’t playing Half Life. They were playing a flash game knockoff of Half Life that anyone can play on the web.

  • asdfadsf
    8 August 2009 at 8:46 am
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    They weren’t playing Half Life. They were playing a flash game knockoff of Half Life that anyone can play on the web.

  • aupermax
    27 May 2010 at 1:50 am
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    wow! that’s really cool! I’m thinking that would be great with L4D. haha

  • aupermax
    27 May 2010 at 1:50 am
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    wow! that’s really cool! I’m thinking that would be great with L4D. haha

  • aupermax
    26 May 2010 at 8:50 pm
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    wow! that’s really cool! I’m thinking that would be great with L4D. haha

  • poop
    22 June 2010 at 1:50 am
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    that is NOT half life… that’s some sort of HL2-themed flash game

  • poop
    22 June 2010 at 1:50 am
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    that is NOT half life… that’s some sort of HL2-themed flash game

    • C. S. Magor
      22 June 2010 at 5:04 am
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      Yes, thank you, that has been established. Presumably licensing issues and overenthusiastic copyright lawyers are the reason for using a free-use flash game.

    • C. S. Magor
      22 June 2010 at 5:04 am
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      Yes, thank you, that has been established. Presumably licensing issues and overenthusiastic copyright lawyers are the reason for using a free-use flash game.

  • poop
    21 June 2010 at 8:50 pm
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    that is NOT half life… that’s some sort of HL2-themed flash game

    • C. S. Magor
      22 June 2010 at 12:04 am
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      Yes, thank you, that has been established. Presumably licensing issues and overenthusiastic copyright lawyers are the reason for using a free-use flash game.

  • algdfa
    22 June 2010 at 8:00 pm
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    Well, that’s a great idea! I like it!

  • algdfa
    22 June 2010 at 8:00 pm
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    Well, that’s a great idea! I like it!

  • algdfa
    22 June 2010 at 3:00 pm
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    Well, that’s a great idea! I like it!

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