At the beginning of 1999, two game developers,
named Minh Le and Jess Cliffe, wanted to create a game centered on the conflict between terrorism
and counter-terrorism. Eventually they decided to create a mod for the recently released
game Half-Life. On June 19, 1999 the first public beta was released and the gaming community
absolutely loved it. So much so that the two developers didn't even have to make any maps
themselves. Because right from the beginning, fans would simply submit their own through
the official website. Popular fan created maps like Dust, Siege, Nuke, among others
became essential parts of the game's early development. In other words, Counter-Strike
was a major success. Valve, the creators of Half-Life, quickly took an interest in the
mod and by Beta v4.0 began assisting the developers. By the end of 2000, Valve had actually hired
the developers and released Counter-Strike as a stand alone game. The franchise quickly
grew in popularity to become one of the most popular first-person shooters on the market.
Even today, the original Counter-Strike is among the most popular games on Steam with
the most recent installment, Global Offensive, at the very top. It's possible that the Counter-Strike series
is a prequel to the Left 4 Dead franchise. You see, a few areas and maps in the Left
4 Dead games can also be found in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The maps are of course remade
but the resemblance is still quite obvious at times. These overlaps can be found throughout
the game and it makes you wonder if the two series are actually part of the same universe.
I mean, if this was any other game developer we would be calling them lazy, but hey it's Valve so... Yay! So the question is, is this just asset recycling or actual hints towards something more? Much like the arcade version of Half-Life
2, Counter-Strike: Neo is the arcade version of Counter-Strike. Released sometime in 2003,
the game is only available in Japan and is some form of futuristic shooter with cyborgs
and anime looking characters and yeah.. Basically a reskinned version of the game made to appeal
to a Japanese audience. Three other spin-off titles has been made as well titled Counter-Strike:
Online 1 and 2, and Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies. In 2009, a small Counter-Strike tournament
between the two Russian teams Virtus.pro and ForZe was held in Russia. The event promised
a night of competitive gaming between two highly ranked eSport teams. But the sponsors
of the event had a slightly different idea. They decided to make things a little more
interesting by secretly inviting a couple of strippers to see if the players would get
distracted. The women did all they could but the competition went on as usual and the players seemed completely unfazed. Well maybe not completely. I guess Counter-Strike players
are just really dedicated to the sport. The names of some of the bots in the games
are actually named after real people. For example, on hard difficulty there's a bot
named Gabe as a homage to Gabe Newell. There's also a bot named Dave after the creator of
maps like Dust, Dust II, and Cobble. In expert mode, two bots can be found named Minh and
Cliffe as a reference to the original developers. On normal, there's a bot named Chris who's named after the creator of maps like Aztec, Inferno, and Frantic. Has a player in a game ever made you so angry
that you wanted to actually kill that person in real life? Back in 2010, a man in France
decided to play some Counter-Strike. One particular match ended with him being killed in a knife
fight. The man got so angry by this that he decided to spend the next 7 months tracking
this guy down. When he finally found out who he was and where he lived he traveled to his
house and when he opened the door, he stabbed him in the chest with a knife. Luckily for
the victim, he missed his heart by a few centimeters, so he survived the attack. But seriously, how
do you go seven months without thinking "You know what? Maybe I'm overreacting here. Maybe I'm just overreacting a bit." "Maybe I should think this through?" No? Seven months, still doing this? Ok... On the highly popular map Dust II, you can
find this piece of graffiti that reads Goose. This isn't exactly a secret since the area
is often referred to as just Goose. But not everyone knows why though. Goose is actually
a reference to one of the creators of the original mod, Minh Le, whose online nickname
is Gooseman. In 2007, a student at a school in Texas was
suspended simply because he created a Counter-Strike map based on his school. This happened in
the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting where 32 people where killed. Because of the heightened
sense of fear caused by this, schools around the country were on high alert for any suspicious
activity. So when teachers realized that a student had created a level in a game where
the objective is to fight terrorists and planting bombs, things got out of hand pretty quickly.
Police got involved and it was seen as some sort of minor act of terrorism but the boy
was never actually arrested. He was however, kicked out of the school and was forced to
transfer to a new one. All because of some poor timing and a harmless map in a video
game. All the radio commands and dialogue heard
in each installment was recorded by co-creator Jess Cliffe. It
wasn't until Global Offensive that each faction received their own unique voice actors. Thus replacing most of the originals. But
not all though. For example, the final messages like or still remain. In Counter-Strike: Source on the map Inferno,
there's a room dubbed the boiler room or just boiler for short. In Global Offensive, they
either forgot or choose not to include this room and players quickly noticed. So in late
2014, Valve updated the game to include this boiler. This created a minor outcry within
the community as players thought it was kinda strange that Valve would update something
as trivial as this while still not fixing many bugs in the game. This escalated even
further when the map received yet another update where they removed the boiler again
and instead placed it here, in this pickup truck. This turn of events quickly turned
into a sort of running joke or meme if you will, and the boiler has since been found on
other maps as well.
Top10Memes is actually a really good channel guys, no joke.
The fucking strippers.
why :D
This guy does some amazing videos, his FNAF series was great.
I'd highly recommend his Valve and Half Life Top10Facts.
BADU GABEEEEN
First time i head about the boiler but it was funny as hell.
we can't escape boilers no matter what, welp...
haha, who was on the 2 russian teams with the strippers back then?
0/0 there was no memes in this video
lol at #4..
and what other maps is the boiler on?