Gabe Newell's Biggest Inspirations: Mainframes, Marines, and Mario

[Mrsoupcup]

Apparently these games make you into the sort of person who drags your ass on sequels.

Nope, that's the KFC.

 

[beema]

And here I thought his three influences were Big Macs, Fried Chicken, and Cheesecake.

 

[Revista sin valor]

Apparently these games make you into the sort of person who drags your ass on sequels.

Nope, that's the KFC.

I think the source you were looking for is Duke Nukem.

 

[Formica Archonis]

One of Newell's favorites, the Star Trek text game for a Burroughs mainframe, would be pretty tough to play today on its original hardware.

If it's the same FORTRAN application I'm thinking of, it's been ported from hell to breakfast. Tough to play on original hardware? Yeah. Tough to play? No.

EDIT: Wikipedia tells me the one I'm thinking of was in BASIC. Er, okay. I wonder if he could be talking about the PDP version which was completely different. Might still be able to find a port of it, though.

 

[blankedboy]

Aw hell yeah, DooM.
DooM's one of the only games I can legitimately say I'm good at, along with Trackmania and Boxes.

 

[duchaked]

Anyway, why is it surprising that HL1, 2, and Portal aren't in his top 3? Shouldn't a creator be his own biggest critic? If that's true, then surely a great creator like Newell would count games other than his own as his biggest inspiration?

true true, especially seeing how Valve cares so much about quality control

it's how one improves never be truly satisfied with what you've made

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Why would it be surprising that his favorite games aren't Valve games. Even if they were he would never say it in an interview lest he sound like the biggest freakin dick in the game industry.

OT: So his first game, was one which took a ridiculously long amount of time between "moves"?......hmm...

....Interesting.... [smug face]

 

[Tiswas]

Everytime someone complains about the lack of more Half-Life or makes a Fat joke about Newell. He personally delays the game back a day.


So the next half life is coming out in 2032

 

[TiefBlau]

Apparently these games make you into the sort of person who drags your ass on sequels.

Or make you attractive to self-entitled fans.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Apparently these games make you into the sort of person who drags your ass on sequels.

Or make you attractive to self-entitled fans.

Oh come on, the man is adorable. He's like a giant marshmallow. :>

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Hey, Gabe, if you like Doom and Mario, maybe you should try taking inspiration from these:

Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Don't pretend you don't.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Come on, who doesn't love the original Doom. That was like one of the first games I ever played.

 

[QuadFish]

Super Mario 64 was one of the first games I ever played, and the first I played to 100% completion {/nostalgia} I would probably add Beyond Good and Evil and Portal/TF2 to my list.

No way, you played B,G&E? That was the game that got me into the entire gaming industry! It was something in the world that just... captivated me. Another big one was prolly Half-Life and No One Lives Forever: 2

BG&E is one of my favourite games just because it managed to have believable characters and for that matter a well-presented female character for once.
I did play it on PC so it wasn't quite as good as if I had played on a console though (it doesn't translate that well :\). Oh the memories... Some of the scenes in that game were just so damn emotional. I actually spent hours just going through all of the stealth sections trying to do it without having to resort to force.

 

[RobCoxxy]

Doom was the first game I got my hands on. My chubby little five year old hands. Loved it.
Mario 64, Goldeneye and Ocarina of Time would be my other favourite games.

 

[Electrogecko]

I remember a while back (there was an article on this site about it) Newell had a video conference with a highschool class. After a point, he polled the audience on their experience with video games, and one of his questions was "who here has played Mario 64?.....who was disappointed by Mario Galaxy?.....not as bad as Sunshine though."

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Everytime someone complains about the lack of more Half-Life or makes a Fat joke about Newell. He personally delays the game back a day.


So the next half life is coming out in 2532

Fixed

Perhaps I should then cryogenically freeze myself if I want to play the game then.

Oh, and on topic, Ocarina of Time was the thing that got me into Games, back when I was way younger