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Get Your Free TVs.jpg

The only known official image of Get Your Free TVs

Status: Partially Found

Get Your Free TVs is the first known tech demo for the game Half-Life 2. It showed off what VALVe was working on with their new Source Engine.

History

The history of Get Your Free TVs starts back at SIGGRAPH 2000,[1] where the tech demo was first shown off, although it was behind closed doors. At SIGGRAPH 2001, a shortened version of this demo is most likely shown off. In 2003, Half-Life 2 had leaked to the public by Axel Gembe. In this leak, several assets from Get Your Free TVs can be found, including textures for the gasmask citizen, and modified version of the map shown in the GameSpot screenshot. In 2004, an image is released showing multiple Gasmask Citizens running from the Strider enemy, which has killed some of the Gasmask Citizens. Also during this time, the only official image from the tech demo is published in a GameSpot article.[2] Some more concept art is also released in the book Raising The Bar

What's Been Found

  • Half-Life 2 2003 Leak
    • Textures for the gasmask citizen shown in the photo
    • Modified versions of the level shown in the photo

What's Still Lost

  • The gasmask citizen model
  • The version of the level shown in the GameSpot screenshot and tech demo video
    • Several unused textures are in the GameSpot screenshot
  • The tech demo video

References