{"id":1540,"date":"2008-11-21T06:51:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2008-11-21T06:51:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T12:51:12","slug":"original-half-life-098-today-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/original-half-life-098-today-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Half-Life $0.98 Today Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/hl1box.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>OK, it started Wednesday, but I only heard about it late last night &#8230; anyway, this milestone first-person shooter is celebrating its&#8217; 10th birthday, and as a treat, Valve is giving it away for the low price of 98 cents (get it, released in 1998, sell for 98 cents!). I had been working on a Retrospective, but let me just be clear &#8211; it was a great game in 1998, and it is still great now. The graphics have been improved through the Source engine, but it still looks like a 1998 game. The gameplay and excellent narrative style haven&#8217;t lost their edge a bit in the last decade. If you don&#8217;t own it &#8211; or even if you do but don&#8217;t have it on Steam, go <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/70\/\">here <\/a>and buy it. NOW!!! <strong>EDITOR:<\/strong> <em>Mike meant to warn parents that this game is rated M. It&#8217;s tame by today&#8217;s standards, I could see 15+ myself, but parent be warned. Half-Life is a horror game.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it started Wednesday, but I only heard about it late last night &#8230; anyway, this milestone first-person shooter is celebrating its&#8217; 10th birthday, and as a treat, Valve is giving it away for the low price of 98 cents (get it, released in 1998, sell for 98 cents!). I had been working on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}