Some of Steam’s oldest user accounts are turning 20-years old this week, and Valve is celebrating the anniversary by handing out special digital badges featuring the original Steam colour scheme to the gaming veterans.

Steam first opened its figurative doors all the way back in September 2003, and has since grown into the largest digital PC gaming storefront in the world, which is actively used by tens of millions of players each day.

“In case anyone’s curious about the odd colours, that’s the colour scheme for the original Steam UI when it first launched,” commented Redditor Penndrachen, referring to the badge’s army green colour scheme, which prompted a mixed reaction from players who remembered the platform’s earliest days. “I joined in the first six months,” lamented Affectionate-Memory4. “I feel ancient rn.”

  • MrGerrit
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    1 year ago

    I too got hl2 free my graphics card, it was some kind of special edition that had like better cooling or something. It came in a special case too.

    Unfortunately there was something wrong with it, don’t remember what. But I went back to the store and they didn’t had a replacement for it.

    But for 50 bucks extra I could get a other, better card. They paid 50 themselves as a customer service thing, very nice that was!

    I ended up flashing the card to unlock it to a higher tier card, never had any problems with it. So it was a truly great experience for me when hl2 launched.

    The good old days.