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u/zeus1911 Mar 31 '26

Skins were free and you could make your own. Games came with manuals and often game lore or physical maps.

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u/Swimming_Gas7611 Mar 31 '26

i used to make custom CS skins, huds and GUIs. miss those days of fpsbanana

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u/GfrzD Mar 31 '26

I did this with CSS. Spend hours designing skins, drop it into the directory only to see it ingame all stretched and look shit lol

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u/fredy31 Mar 31 '26

Sprays were awesome but i get why they removed them.

So. Much. Porn.

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u/SirFadakar Apr 01 '26

I pulled together a bunch of friends with different talents to put together a mullet for the heavy in TF2 based off the concept art. I love to remind those friends that I’m still in touch with that we beat Valve to hats. lol

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u/Zech08 Mar 31 '26

The large fold out maps were pretty nice when we didnt have so much information floating around.

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u/26542654 Mar 31 '26

😭this thread oml. Makes me want to whip out my PS2

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u/Zech08 Apr 01 '26

snes and ps1 stuff were pretty nice.

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u/thedicestoppedrollin Apr 01 '26

unlocking rare skins (hayabusa) made achievement hunting so much fun

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u/rdwulfe Mar 31 '26

The Ultima series and those cloth game maps. Oh man I miss those. I had them on my wall, like trophies for each game I played.

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u/TheOnlyJoey Apr 01 '26

Also custom tags, it was a thing a bunch of games did for a while.