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    Half-Life 2: Survivor Arcade Cabinet

    Siliconera has about one million screenshots from the weird arcade version of Halflife 2 called "Survivor" and currently only available in Japan. According to Wikipedia:

    Players control their movement by a combination of joysticks - one for each hand - and floor pedals. The console unit's screen is a HDTV widescreen liquid crystal display - the action unfolding from a traditional first-person shooter perspective. [...]

    There is almost no story-telling element other than the G-man intro movie, and it's impossible to grasp the original Half-Life 2 story from this game. For example, after the g-man intro movie, players will find Gordon with weapons in Route Canal. There is no interactive cut scenes, and Alyx makes no appearance either. The lack of the gravity gun and physics-based puzzles should also be noted.

    It sounds weird and disorienting, but I kinda dig the concept of playing Halflife in a multi-point arcade control scheme.

    Little-known feature: if you complete all the objectives in the Headcrab Hoedown bonus round, the cabinet itself actually rolls out of the arcade in into the street on those little wheels, where it makes its way to Valve Japan headquarters and you are treated to a small party with paper hats, cupcakes, and maybe a Beck CD. You have to get home on your own, though.

    Half Life 2: Survivor screenshots [Siliconera]


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