An Intro by Pete, written before the turn of the century

(Outdated links and references have been changed to protect the innocent)

Greetings and salutations! Welcome to Mike and Pete's Fun Half-Life Sound Pack homepage. I'm not sure who tricke--er... persuaded you into coming here, but if you're willing to sit through a download or two, I'm (almost) positive that you won't regret this visit! If you'd rather just skip to the Downloads section and get to some downloads, please feel free. Otherwise, allow me to introduce to you the work that Mike and I have been slaving over on our beloved game, Half-Life.

This website was made so we could make our product available to you. And what *IS* our product, you ask? Well, I'm delighted that you asked that! This project of ours started when Mike discovered that we could replace sound effects in Half-Life with a pak editing programme. We played around with it for a long time before finally successfully replacing Barney's death sounds with lines like, "Ack! They ro-sham-boed me!" (Please pardon the spkelling) Although you may not find this very funny, Mike and I were just delirious over our stunning accomplishment. In fact, we were so much so that we decided to continue and replace ALL the dialogue and scripted sentences in the whole game. Yes, and perhaps we regret it now, seeing as we didn't know it would be so much damn work!

So, that's about it in a nutshell. We've been working on a sound conversion to make playing Half-Life more humourous (this is, of course, assuming that you share our particular sense of humour), changing just about everything you'll hear coming out of the lips-that-are-actually-just-lines-drawn-on-a- textured-face of the characters in the game. We started by playing through the first chapter, Anomolous Materials , and typing out all the lines of scripted dialogue that we heard. Then we sat down and tried to think of something at least somewhat amusing to replace those lines with. Often, it's most humourous if you can remember what the original line was, seeing as we often play on what we heard when we first went through the game--thus our motto:

Hear Half-Life the way it was meant to be heard (the second time 'round, that is).

Anyway, we moved from there to the random one-liners you hear the scientist mumble every so often, and the chats they'll hold if they're standing close to each other. All in all, it's been VERY slow going! But at last, we've got some parts of it finished, the latest being the pak file including all of Barney's miscellaneous ramblings, and we'd be very happy if you would take the time to download our sound pack and give it a try. We would be even happier if you could give us some feedback--on this webpage, or better yet, on our Sound Pack. Please feel free to wander aimlessly about the other parts of our page, it's there for your perusal!

Yours truly,

Pete

P.S. A great, big "Thank You" goes out to those of you who have tried out the Pak file, and an even bigger one goes to those who've told us how much they like it!

P.P.S. In case you were wondering, neither Mike nor I actually look like the Doughboys illustrated above, nor are we in anyway affiliated with the Pillsbury Doughboy. (My apologies, in case I've spelled your name wrong, Oh Great Doughboy.)

*** WARNING! *** These pak files do contain some words (and phrases) that some people may find offensive. (Like "mustard".)

Seriously though, we do have some stuff (quite a bit of stuff, actually) that you may find done in poor taste.