I love how PurpleColonel gets slowly crazier and crazier with each half life video, but returns to normal with a non half life video. Also the random keemstar president one off was a nice way of keeping some continuity.
I live under a rock and just played it today lol. I somehow never knew about it til now. This is what i get for playing through black mesa instead of half-life the last few times i replayed the series. They're both great games for different reasons but it also feels redundant to olay them both back to back.
Uplink was cool. Getting the PS2 magazine disc and actually seeing Uplink on the PS2 was the most surreal Half-Life experience I've ever had. It was insane and I still take good care of the disc.
When I was younger, I always imagined Uplink was a nightmare Gordon had the morning of the Black Mesa incident, probably being implanted by the gman, and he just quickly forgot about it after realizing he was late for work.
idk man nightmares stick with you longer than dreams, speaking from experience. i borderline had a mental breakdown last nightmare i had and needed my boyfriend to tell me it wasn't real, so if i was him i probably would've called in sick when you're having a nightmare in the lab you work at when there was a nuclear meltdown and you were like the only survivor for most of it.
I also played Uplink when it came on a demo CD from a local magazine, it was my first contact with Half-Life. Back then I felt that Uplink had a more advanced AI/scripting compared to the retail version. The fact that they made it after developing HL may explain that feeling.
Probably already mentioned in the comments, but Valve added Uplink to retail HL1 as part of the 25 year anniversary update. When hitting New Game, you get the option to play HL, the Hazard Course, or Uplink.
god i love uplink, its such a perfect miniature of all the shit i love in half-life with great combat flow. My only real "complaint" is that its short and makes me want more, which is probably why its a demo.
7:21 this reminds me of a fun fact related to Half-life 1 that I don't think a lot of people know about. There is a film from the year 2000 called "Max Knight Ultra Spy" which features unique machinima animation from HL1 as one of the scenes from the film. I have no idea how the produces got the rights for this or if this is even an official collaboration with Valve, but I think it's worth checking out. If you look up the movie + "half life scene" on google you'll find it
I loved that there is a Black Mesa version of Uplink now, which I have played and enjoyed. Also of course I want to see you discuss that baffling short film.
imagine if they went with the typical way of doing demo and before you step out of the test chamber in unforeseen consequences it tells you to buy the full game lmao
I remember playing Uplink and the Opposing Force demo as a kid, and since I grew up with the Nintendo 64, I was _shocked_ at the level of absurdly detailed gore. I was like, "wait, they can put this kind of shit in a video game? Is that even legal?" Blowing a dude up with a grenade and then watching his organs, half-muscled bones, and jawless one-eyed skull go flying across the room trailing blood everywhere was probably the most fucking brutal thing I'd ever seen. Also, because I played the OpFor demo first, I didn't realize the military were the bad guys in the original game, so when I went and played Uplink, walking up to a Marine expecting him to team up only for him to immediately try and kill me was such a nasty surprise that I actually jumped in my seat. I almost pooped a little. They just don't make games as intense as Half-Life these days.
Since everyone's getting introduced to Uplink, I can't recommend Signal Lost enough. It's a reimagining of HL-1 with a darker atmosphere by a talented goldsource modder, that includes all of Uplink. A lot of other prerelease content makes appearances in it. For just being Chapter 1, it's really good, and looks beautiful. It already extends way beyond the content of Uplink itself.
Started playing half life when they gave it away with the 25th anniversary update. Was curious about Uplink but would never guess how important it was and what it meant Valve putting the option to play it into the freaking title screen. Really makes you realize the magnitude of that update and all it brings into making the first game easier to get into for new players
My cousin had the Uplink demo on cd and i played it literally years before hl1. It was so amazing an experience for me, and it got me interested in half life!
*THIS.* I can't tell you how many times I finished this Demo with my Dad! It was our introduction to Half Life, and it will always have a special place in my heart!
....Uplinked mod makes the most out of the mission pack + added some unused maps. It also seamlessly work with the base game, accessing it before the lambda complex.
I remember playing this at a friend's house way back in the day. Until I saw this video I wasn't even sure if this chapter was real! It was like one of those Mandela effect moments lol. Glad to know I didn't just imagine it!
I played this today on my Chromebook and it took me 20 minutes at least. I thought it was just an unfinished can game so thanks for the video that allowed me to understand the history!
Yoooo I had uplink back in the day, it was the demo for half-life, I replayed this over and over again. Always trying to get past the ending to see more, glitching myself out of the map. sequence breaking the game. I had so much fun man.
The very first time I seen HL was in 2002. I remember watching someone play Uplink in drafting class and my first memory of game play was Gordon manning the 50 cal in between the cargo containers.
You know, my parents are watching a show right now and at the Very same moment you zoomed in on "Pentagon" a character said "the Pentagon"... Your videos are very impressive.
There are also mods like uplink addon which integrates the uplink level to the main game and uplink extended, which is a remaster of the original uplink and adds new sections after the gangartua boss fight.
I remember my friend had Uplink on a demo disc, and even after finishing the game, I too really wanted to play this! Also yes, I would love to see more of this obscure short film that I had no idea existed, haha.
We played the shit out of uplink in middle school. A pal of mine got into trouble with his ma after she saw him go bananas on a barney with the crowbar.
Uplink may not be the objective HL demo but to me it is. I clearly remember playing this before my much older siblings got the actual game. More so watching my older brother and his friend's playing this. Infact I remember a lot of demos within this era of PC gaming [worms Armageddon, POD racing, Kingpin, MDK, RC racing] So in my mind Uplink has a special part in my gaming history. It got me into Half Life and basically FPS games in some ways
I've played this thing, and I did it off a original demo disc in my College computer course where we had to build a old PC from scratch using 'junk' parts.
Never played? I used to play Uplink after clicking the "Custom Game" function on the GOTY Edition Case which had TF classic too. It could be activated by a simple click and you could play it.
Also, i saw a mod on moddb that implements this demo in the final game. After jumping in 7 portal in lambda complex chapter, it teleports you to the beggining of uplink
for a long time (due to the lack of internet and me being in a small town in india in 2001 with almost no pc gaming scene) this demo was the only chapter i had ever played lol. I only got my hands on full half life just 6 months before the release of half life 2
I did play it at the time! There was a gaming magazine I started buying at the time when I got my first computer... It was a Portuguese (from PORTUGAL, not Brazil) called BGamer. For whatever reason, the GUI installer of their demo discs used Soul Reaver's Raziel in every single release, and I don't think they ever changed it in the many months I bought them. Sadly, all those discs are lost to time. This Half Life demo came in one of them, and you bet I played the hell out of it. I don't remember that well what else I played that came on those discs, though. The Soul Reaver demo was definitely one of them (duh) and it was interesting how it was also its own very unique level that isn't in the full game at all. I miss these days; you'd always get something new whether you played the demo or the full game. It's such a cool practice that few developers did and it's a shame it died out.
So funny story, I played Uplink before the main game, since it was released as a demo. I had no clue soldiers were enemies. That led to some struggles, but eventually I got the message.
i swear to god i played this as a part of the original game, I know for a fact i played it at some point, but i dont remember doing anything special to have to play it, and i sure as hell wasnt even alive when it was relevant
Ironically this was the first Half-Life game I got to play without getting stuck (For instance, I tried playing HL1 several years ago and got stuck on the train several times because of either my sh*tty pc or a bug)
Was there an air lock style room with white walls and corridors in the demo? A few dead zombies being operated on in there? That’s all I remember playing from a UK PC magazine demo disc.
You may not believe this but back when I was young I had pirated Half-Life on my PC and was playing through the game and got into the teleports segment in Lambda Core. And by some freak accident when I jumped to the last portal some thing happened and I got the play through whole Uplink chapter. This never happened again, the game loaded me back into teleport segment after completing the chapter.
@@PurpleColonel I've actually never heard of mods such like this, I might look them up, thank you. I believe when I replayed the game it didn't happened again and the the chapter played normally. Welp, that was a long time ago and I now have both HL1 & HL2 bought and installed on Steam like they always should be so I guess it's not a big deal. :)
In signal lost video you rated blue shift above opfor, I’d like to see a video on two expansions by you, a very dedicated half life nerd. I liked this video too that deepfake freeman and all.
Deepfaked helium-chugging Gordon Freeman is becoming my favorite recurring character
apparently his death from radiation was faked
@@stoodle511 there was a fork in the timeline. can you find where it is???
@@PurpleColonel holy shiet, PurpleConel lore!
@@PurpleColonel that explains why you are insane in this one, you also have radiation poisoning and living
That's what I'm saying.
I love how PurpleColonel gets slowly crazier and crazier with each half life video, but returns to normal with a non half life video. Also the random keemstar president one off was a nice way of keeping some continuity.
I can't wait to see when they completely lose it
I'm pretty sure Keemstar being the president isn't as random as you think.
@@liquidexw refrence to hunt down the freeman i think
@@enadopato Exactly.
if anyone here lives under a rock and is viewing the video, uplink has been added to the main game in the 25th anniversary update
map hldemo 1
I live under a rock and just played it today lol. I somehow never knew about it til now. This is what i get for playing through black mesa instead of half-life the last few times i replayed the series.
They're both great games for different reasons but it also feels redundant to olay them both back to back.
Uplink was cool. Getting the PS2 magazine disc and actually seeing Uplink on the PS2 was the most surreal Half-Life experience I've ever had. It was insane and I still take good care of the disc.
nice
i miss those discs that would come with gaming magazines. it was so cool to be able to try a few different demos of games to see which you liked
When I was younger, I always imagined Uplink was a nightmare Gordon had the morning of the Black Mesa incident, probably being implanted by the gman, and he just quickly forgot about it after realizing he was late for work.
That’s my new headcanon
idk man nightmares stick with you longer than dreams, speaking from experience. i borderline had a mental breakdown last nightmare i had and needed my boyfriend to tell me it wasn't real, so if i was him i probably would've called in sick when you're having a nightmare in the lab you work at when there was a nuclear meltdown and you were like the only survivor for most of it.
I rather imagine it's an area in Black Mesa he was teleported to during the Lambda Core chapter, somewhat.
@@disposable_income_andy if this was cannon then I don't think this is Gordon but idk if they mentioned his name
I always imagined it was Gordon's dream before he woke up in the trash compactor.
"The Half Life chapter you've never played"
Me, who has been playing Uplink for like 20 times: *I know this one! This is a classic!*
Me, reinstalling Uplink after so many years: *What'd'yah mean you've seen it? It's brand new!*
Guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it
HOLD UP WHO TF ARE YOU
Uplink was the first HL content I'd ever played. So the video description doesn't really apply to me
Sven co-op players: Yeah, i played this.
"The thing I'm gonna be remembered for when I die"
"Pre-Release Moment?"
"Pre-Release Moment"
"yeaAAAAAAAAA!!!"
I also played Uplink when it came on a demo CD from a local magazine, it was my first contact with Half-Life.
Back then I felt that Uplink had a more advanced AI/scripting compared to the retail version. The fact that they made it after developing HL may explain that feeling.
Same goes for their progression from HL2 to Episode 2 and why the combat is so good in the latter game.
Probably already mentioned in the comments, but Valve added Uplink to retail HL1 as part of the 25 year anniversary update. When hitting New Game, you get the option to play HL, the Hazard Course, or Uplink.
The "Pre-release" Moments are my favorite section of these videos.
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Well now we officially can
Uplink was recently re-added to the game. It's beautiful.
Here after uplinks been added to steam
god i love uplink, its such a perfect miniature of all the shit i love in half-life with great combat flow. My only real "complaint" is that its short and makes me want more, which is probably why its a demo.
7:21 this reminds me of a fun fact related to Half-life 1 that I don't think a lot of people know about. There is a film from the year 2000 called "Max Knight Ultra Spy" which features unique machinima animation from HL1 as one of the scenes from the film. I have no idea how the produces got the rights for this or if this is even an official collaboration with Valve, but I think it's worth checking out. If you look up the movie + "half life scene" on google you'll find it
I loved that there is a Black Mesa version of Uplink now, which I have played and enjoyed.
Also of course I want to see you discuss that baffling short film.
imagine if they went with the typical way of doing demo and before you step out of the test chamber in unforeseen consequences it tells you to buy the full game lmao
Surprised you didn’t mention how headcrabs are depicted as much smarter than they are in the base game, setting up ambushes and such
6:42 valve: prepare for unforeseen consequences
half life uplink in the game now
“The Half-Life chapter you’ve never played”
Thanks to this video, that’s about to change.
8:11 just making this timestamp so i can click it over and over
1:18 o God, I thought I would never see a running G-man
I remember playing Uplink and the Opposing Force demo as a kid, and since I grew up with the Nintendo 64, I was _shocked_ at the level of absurdly detailed gore. I was like, "wait, they can put this kind of shit in a video game? Is that even legal?" Blowing a dude up with a grenade and then watching his organs, half-muscled bones, and jawless one-eyed skull go flying across the room trailing blood everywhere was probably the most fucking brutal thing I'd ever seen. Also, because I played the OpFor demo first, I didn't realize the military were the bad guys in the original game, so when I went and played Uplink, walking up to a Marine expecting him to team up only for him to immediately try and kill me was such a nasty surprise that I actually jumped in my seat. I almost pooped a little. They just don't make games as intense as Half-Life these days.
they do, u just didnt expect it the first time lol
Creepy baby voice gordon being a reoccurring character is literally my favorite gag
I want a comp
Yay yay!
Famois last words 0:20
-gotco
Since everyone's getting introduced to Uplink, I can't recommend Signal Lost enough. It's a reimagining of HL-1 with a darker atmosphere by a talented goldsource modder, that includes all of Uplink.
A lot of other prerelease content makes appearances in it. For just being Chapter 1, it's really good, and looks beautiful. It already extends way beyond the content of Uplink itself.
The only thing I want HDTF to be known for in the future is having Keemstar as president during the HL1 Era.
Started playing half life when they gave it away with the 25th anniversary update. Was curious about Uplink but would never guess how important it was and what it meant Valve putting the option to play it into the freaking title screen.
Really makes you realize the magnitude of that update and all it brings into making the first game easier to get into for new players
I like to call this dude child freeman 0:01
I love the mod of Uplink called "Uplink extended". It a nice little expansion of Uplink, featuring one last combat arena.
My cousin had the Uplink demo on cd and i played it literally years before hl1. It was so amazing an experience for me, and it got me interested in half life!
"Hey, I've seen this one!"
"What do you mean you've seen it? It's brand new."
*THIS.*
I can't tell you how many times I finished this Demo with my Dad!
It was our introduction to Half Life, and it will always have a special place in my heart!
4:55 this is a top-tier HDTF joke/reference.
1:32 unpopular opinion: episode 2 of doom is better than episode 1
episode 3 is definitely rough but episode 2 fucks
oh also i like episode 4 a lot if we're including ultimate doom
@@xanious3759 I like episode 4 after perfect hatred, that level can go fuck itself.
4:56 the president keemstar is the best meme came from HDTF xDDDD
of course after "my MOM IS DEAD"
it's crazy - just because they officially released it, i actually bothered to play it - and i can recommend wholeheartedly
1:20 nowadays you buy a gpu (unobtainable) and it comes with the amazing bundle of either Battlefield 2042 or some Ubishit
I'm becoming obsessed with your delivery of "The G-Man"
I like the energy, keep it up!
The best demo for a game
Uplink add-on is a great mod to try if you like this chapter. It adds Uplink into the normal Half-Life campaign in a very smooth way
....Uplinked mod makes the most out of the mission pack + added some unused maps. It also seamlessly work with the base game, accessing it before the lambda complex.
@@johndexterzarate6663 Mission pack?
@@Minisoderr I think he means Mission pack=Uplink demo unless I'm wrong.
0:00 now I can understand why Gordon doesn’t have a voice
I remember playing this at a friend's house way back in the day. Until I saw this video I wasn't even sure if this chapter was real! It was like one of those Mandela effect moments lol. Glad to know I didn't just imagine it!
Quagmire toilet gaming
I played this today on my Chromebook and it took me 20 minutes at least. I thought it was just an unfinished can game so thanks for the video that allowed me to understand the history!
Yoooo I had uplink back in the day, it was the demo for half-life, I replayed this over and over again. Always trying to get past the ending to see more, glitching myself out of the map. sequence breaking the game. I had so much fun man.
lol me too i must have beat this 4000 times back in 2001
The very first time I seen HL was in 2002. I remember watching someone play Uplink in drafting class and my first memory of game play was Gordon manning the 50 cal in between the cargo containers.
You know, my parents are watching a show right now and at the Very same moment you zoomed in on "Pentagon" a character said "the Pentagon"... Your videos are very impressive.
Deepfake helium-chugging Gordon is making me feel uneasy and safe at the same time.
THE GA-MAN
Me who played it on a random sven coop server: Ha.
ourple colonel is scary when he tells me to subscribe
There are also mods like uplink addon which integrates the uplink level to the main game and uplink extended, which is a remaster of the original uplink and adds new sections after the gangartua boss fight.
Valve employees making the half-life demo with little more than mod tools is a classic Valve move.
why is the helium smoking gordon freeman kinda cute
8:02 You sound like Wallace Breen
I remember my friend had Uplink on a demo disc, and even after finishing the game, I too really wanted to play this!
Also yes, I would love to see more of this obscure short film that I had no idea existed, haha.
Look it up, you can watch the whole thing on TH-cam and watch the Valvetime review of it.
This series keeps getting better. Keep it up, big guy.
aand they put it in the menu (25th anniversary)
We played the shit out of uplink in middle school. A pal of mine got into trouble with his ma after she saw him go bananas on a barney with the crowbar.
it's surreal to see my dumb idiot keemstar joke being made into a real, tangible thing. It's legitimately such a weird feeling
Uplink may not be the objective HL demo but to me it is. I clearly remember playing this before my much older siblings got the actual game. More so watching my older brother and his friend's playing this. Infact I remember a lot of demos within this era of PC gaming [worms Armageddon, POD racing, Kingpin, MDK, RC racing] So in my mind Uplink has a special part in my gaming history. It got me into Half Life and basically FPS games in some ways
I've played this thing, and I did it off a original demo disc in my College computer course where we had to build a old PC from scratch using 'junk' parts.
Uplink was my first exposure to Halflife in the year 1999.
Never played? I used to play Uplink after clicking the "Custom Game" function on the GOTY Edition Case which had TF classic too. It could be activated by a simple click and you could play it.
I remember seeing this on a fan made windows, windows 96
Also, i saw a mod on moddb that implements this demo in the final game. After jumping in 7 portal in lambda complex chapter, it teleports you to the beggining of uplink
and that's the perfect way to place this chapter into the game!
Honestly, the concept of a reporter breaking into the Black Mesa facility while the incident is happening
he didnt mention that uplink is on sven coop so.
there you have it :)
for a long time (due to the lack of internet and me being in a small town in india in 2001 with almost no pc gaming scene) this demo was the only chapter i had ever played lol.
I only got my hands on full half life just 6 months before the release of half life 2
Well I've played it now.
I'd love to see you review the unauthorized short film.
thanks for making my day with this new video!
I did play it at the time! There was a gaming magazine I started buying at the time when I got my first computer...
It was a Portuguese (from PORTUGAL, not Brazil) called BGamer. For whatever reason, the GUI installer of their demo discs used Soul Reaver's Raziel in every single release, and I don't think they ever changed it in the many months I bought them.
Sadly, all those discs are lost to time. This Half Life demo came in one of them, and you bet I played the hell out of it.
I don't remember that well what else I played that came on those discs, though. The Soul Reaver demo was definitely one of them (duh) and it was interesting how it was also its own very unique level that isn't in the full game at all. I miss these days; you'd always get something new whether you played the demo or the full game. It's such a cool practice that few developers did and it's a shame it died out.
So funny story, I played Uplink before the main game, since it was released as a demo. I had no clue soldiers were enemies. That led to some struggles, but eventually I got the message.
it was also in freemans mind
As a person played HL:Uplink, HL:Day One and HL:Decay, I didn't know about the uplink video
Is it just me or do I remember Freeman’s Mind using this?
He did yeah, it was cool
@@PurpleColonel alright, good to know my brain still works a little
Let’s not forget the ps2 port of uplink
Uplink was actually my very first experience with Half-Life.
I used to speedrun uplink in the pc center when there is nothing to do my best time was 8:26 minutes
Already subbded, no need to scream :D Love watching your vids, they are peak comfy.
epic uplink W
Some British kid breaks into black mesa and its kinda supposed to be serious.
I laughed so friggin hard.
I played this before I got half life and never found this out till now iv been thinking about this for years
Ironically, I played Half-Life Uplink before Half-Life.
i swear to god i played this as a part of the original game, I know for a fact i played it at some point, but i dont remember doing anything special to have to play it, and i sure as hell wasnt even alive when it was relevant
I played this is Sven coup, it was lots of fun
Ironically this was the first Half-Life game I got to play without getting stuck (For instance, I tried playing HL1 several years ago and got stuck on the train several times because of either my sh*tty pc or a bug)
the way this was made reminds me of warcraft 3; there the demo are also 3 completely unique levels telling a different part of the main story
assuming I haven’t played this game is like assuming birds don’t fly
i vividly remember playing this map with my friend on sven coop and im not sure why
Was there an air lock style room with white walls and corridors in the demo?
A few dead zombies being operated on in there?
That’s all I remember playing from a UK PC magazine demo disc.
I have a crack addiction to this channel now
There is no Half-Life character better than JAZ MEADOWS.
You may not believe this but back when I was young I had pirated Half-Life on my PC and was playing through the game and got into the teleports segment in Lambda Core. And by some freak accident when I jumped to the last portal some thing happened and I got the play through whole Uplink chapter. This never happened again, the game loaded me back into teleport segment after completing the chapter.
That's where some mods put it too. Sounds like you got one of those
@@PurpleColonel I've actually never heard of mods such like this, I might look them up, thank you. I believe when I replayed the game it didn't happened again and the the chapter played normally. Welp, that was a long time ago and I now have both HL1 & HL2 bought and installed on Steam like they always should be so I guess it's not a big deal. :)
In signal lost video you rated blue shift above opfor, I’d like to see a video on two expansions by you, a very dedicated half life nerd.
I liked this video too that deepfake freeman and all.
I think purples gone full insane
Thanks for the heart purple!