Beta Versions: • • • • • • • IX.b. Voting Program In Excel. Retail Versions: • • • • • • Introduction Video games we’re a huge part of my life as a kid/teenager, they still are. The original Counter-Strike is one of my favorite games of all-time.

I have so many memories of playing this game from so many different points in my life. Squirt In Hotel Pool. Today, I still find myself very much fascinated with Counter-Strike’s past and evolution, most likely because of the nostalgic value: it really brings me back. I turned 9 years old just 12 days before the first beta for CS was released on the 19th of June, 1999 ( beta 1.0). I don’t remember the exact date of when I first played it but I believe it was somewhere from the 27th of June ( at the earliest) to the 20th of July ( at the latest).

Brian Lara Cricket For Java. This was beta version 1.1 in which they added burst fire to the Glock 18 as well as the classic cs_assault and cs_desert maps, before “bunny hopping” was around (if I recall correctly). I was living in Kuching, Malaysia at the time and had many friends from school that would regularly hit up internet cafes and compete against one another. One of my friends invited me to play Counter-Strike one day and I was really blown away, I had honestly never experienced competition quite like that through a video game.

Counter-Strike 1.6 cs_mansion Download. Save this file to your cstrike/maps folder for the specified game, then unzip/rar the file. It is suggested that you use. Mansion (cs_mansion) was an official hostage rescue map featured in the Counter-Strike beta. Counter-Strike Mansion map newsandmotion. Counter Strike 1.6 mansion 3-3 - Duration: 8:04. Sultan Abdullayev 5,549 views.

I pretty much lived in those internet cafes from then on and as they say: “the rest is history”. And I plan on covering that history in this chronicle ( not my history, the game’s). 😀 Hope some of it brings you back like it does me! Origins A Vietnamese-Canadian computer game developer by the name of Minh “ Gooseman” Le‘s first mod was for the original Quake and went by the name of Navy SEALs ( 1997). This game was almost like the harbinger of Counter-Strike, it was his original project and took him about a year to make. In addition to three new maps it also had authentic reloadable weapons with realistic ammo management, flashbangs and the ability to land headshots. Gameplay video from one of Counter-Strike’s precursors, “Navy SEALs”.