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7 Jan 2005
The day before New Years, I went to MoMA in New York with the inlaws. We had reservations for dinner, but we were a little bit early and were sick of walking, so we stopped at a random (extremely nice, mid-high-range) restaurant and sat down in their quiet bar for a pre-dinner drink. We were chatting casually, and Mrs. D asked me "what are the big games now?" I told her that this was a huge season for sequels: Half-Life 2, GTA: San Andreas, and Halo 2, in particular. The very curteous bartender, a man with a thick french accent, stopped what he was doing, bent over towards us, and asked "Excuse me, but did you say you play Halo? I love that game."
I've never played the game, but it obviously has had a huge impact on people who otherwise might not consider themselves gamers. I cant figure out how to segue from that story to a link about an international Halo superstar, but let's pretend I did it smoothly.
Chris says:
Smooth man, real smooth. It seems that Halo has become be the first widely accessable FPS, meaning that you don’t need a PC to play it. Tons of people have Xboxes or know someone with an xbox, and halo was probably their first forray into FPS. They’re probably experiencing now what we all experienced with doom/quake/half-life then.
nomad says:
Don’t forget goldeneye! EVERYONE played that game
Chris says:
forgot about this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20041108l.jpg