Siggraph 2000 / Get Your Free TVs (GYFTVs)

[Ванька_Космобайкер]

I'm not sure if this is real, but here is the get your free tv's screenshot without the gasmask citizen.

Wow, where you get this? Maybe this official screenshot! 

[rottenalp]

I'm not sure if this is real, but here is the get your free tv's screenshot without the gasmask citizen.

Wow, where you get this? Maybe this official screenshot! 

Well, I doubt we'd find anything new after all this time. Someone did post a recreation of that exact scene without the NPCs though, it looks just like that screenshot in lower quality.

[VXP]

It's just original image cleared up in Photoshop, can't you see?

[Spicy]

Yeah, i noticed. i took some time to look at it after i posted it and i figured it out.

[Jhrino]

Download the wc mappack, the filename is city_test located in aaron's folder. Because of map's age many of the entities are obsolete, because originally the map was made for goldsource.

[Spicy]

some of the entities in the map are just precursors of the entities used in the retail.

[Bugnotnot]

some of the entities in the map are just precursors of the entities used in the retail.

So could it be possible to rebuild this map quickly. Or is there just nothing left but basic mapping and collision?

[Wolfcl0ck]

Here's my thread where I compiled and fixed every available version of city_test.

[b4ta]

To my knowledge they have been lost to time.

[TauntVermin84]

The map is called city_test03 in the WC Mappack.

[Samuel_svk]

The map is called city_test03 in the WC Mappack.

or city_test01, city_test02, city_test03, city_test04, city_test05, city_test06, city_test07,city_test08, city_test09

city_test09 is trash for some reason. lot of missing textures (I still had maps from 2002)

[Wolfcl0ck]

The map is called city_test03 in the WC Mappack.

or city_test01, city_test02, city_test03, city_test04, city_test05, city_test06, city_test07,city_test08, city_test09

city_test09 is trash for some reason. lot of missing textures (I still had maps from 2002)

There is no city_test01 or 02, it starts at 03. Also, all of them have a fair number of missing textures from one building.

[Frying1Pans]

Real, it dates back to 2000-2001

[legoj15]

Here's a slightly less jpeg-y version from the actual gamespot article

(And a slightly sharper version that was also there)

[gmadador]

TLDR, GYFTVs was not the first map made for HL2 from a literal standpoint. There were tons of other maps and prototypes we aren't even aware of, but there is one we know of: Hyper_001, listed in the liblist.gam file for the 'new game' map. There are also sounds dating back all the way to 1999 related to the Hyperborea, when as we know it, GYFTVs was made around 2000.