Get Your Free TVs! (partially found "Half-Life 2" tech demo; 2000)

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Get Your Free TVs.jpg

The only known official image of Get Your Free TVs

Status: Partially Found


Description

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

  • 2000
    • Get Your Free TVs is shown at SIGGRAPH 2000[1]. Sadly, it was shown behind closed doors to members of the press.
  • 2003
    • The Half-Life 2 Beta gets leaked, and along with this, some assets for Get Your Free TVs. This is the first, and as of now only, time assets for Get Your Free TVs got into the public's hands.
  • 2004
    • The only known image is published onto a GameSpot article[2]

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 screenshot and tech demo video
  • The tech demo video

Reference