lil' HL pop quiz

[jimbones]

Just thought of testing how much you people know about good ol' Half-life. Here goes:

1. What was the working title for Half-Life?
2. What was an alternative naming option for valve software?
3. What book inspired the story of Half-Life?
4. What character inspired the Barney-guard?

just killin' time till hl2..

 

[Brian Damage]

1. Chicken's last walk to the woodheap.
2. Faucet software.
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
4. Al Bundy.

Jooooking! I almost remember #1. It's on the tip of my tongue. "Escape", or something like that? "Survival"?

Wasn't it inspired by a Stephen King book?

 

[AcousticToad]

1: Quiver

2: Steam Powered (just a guess lol)

3: How to grow radioactive tomatos.

4: Jim Self.

Okay, the first one is the only one i can rememebr without searching the net :dozey:

 

[Brian Damage]

Ah. "Quiver". That's the bunny. Well done.:thumbs:

 

[clarionhaze]

don't google it just yet, i want to see what crazy stuff people will come up with... here are mine

1. headcrab mania
2. broken pipe
3. don quixote
4. gabe newell

not sure about the first three, but pretty confident on the 4th. except for the obvious weight difference

 

[Dile]

1. quiver
2. Hollow box
3. Mist
4. forgot

 

[Dile]

4. maybe Robert Downey Jr?

 

[jimbones]

whoa! all except 4...

 

[jimbones]

4. wasn't that purple dinosaur..

 

[Fat_Bob]

1.quiver
2.Mindbot software
3.mist?
4.my mother...

Not sure of the first three but im pretty sure that 4 is right...

 

[king John I]

1. King John I's great adventure

2.King John's stuff

3.King John I and the world

4. King John I

 

[MultiVaC]

1. Quiver
2. "Wall of Silence"?
3. The Mist by Stephen King
4. A guy named Barney

 

[NSPIRE]

1.) Quiver I know for sure.

2.) Dripwear Software (<Sounds cool even though it's not right, hehe)

3.) Cocksweaters Anonymous ()

4.) That one guy that works around the corner at Al's Liquor Mart...

 

[arcturus]

1 - Tomb raider III
2 - Crowbar Software
3 - "Headcrab Recipes" from Aunt Alice
4 - Omer Simpson

 

[ducksauce]

4. Barney Fife.. Andy Griffith Show.. Don Knots baby..

 

[NSPIRE]

Wasn't it spelled Phife? Just curious :-/...

 

[ducksauce]

fife

 

[jimbones]

Bada bing bada boom!

 

[Fender357]

Originally posted by ducksauce
fife

LOL

 

[NSPIRE]

Lol, okay. Guess I'm wrong. ^__^