If you computer can browse the internet, it can almost certainly run Half-Life, so give it a try.
Just a warning though: Because Valve have yet to implement localised pricing schemes, the $0.98 will probably be subject to a exchange fee, which hardly breaks the bank but is probably several times in excess of the amount you'll actually pay for this game (I was charged £1.50 extra for buying the Orange Box this way). This may vary from provider to provider, or card to card. I'm pretty sure that I was never charged for Episode One on my old card...
Also, buy it now, because obviously, the deal expires soon. And you'll have to pay extra for CS, TFC, DOD and all the stuff that everyone who brought it ten years ago got for free
And before anyone plays it and whines:
you had to be there to honestly believe that the game is as amazing as most people who played it at the time think it is. It popularised many of the mechanics you've seen in modern FPS games, but it still has tedious crawlspaces, tram-babysitting sections and a piss-poor end level. Nostalgia is a large part of modern praise for the game. Also, when people enthuse about the 'story', it's to do with how encounters are
staged and told, not how it's written as such. The story is thinner even than in Half-Life 2, and if you've read the Doom or Quake readme file, you've heard the entire thing before.
Maxon said:
Well, like with MGS, I'd rather play the games in the order that they were intended.
So you played them: MG Solid 3, MGS3 Portable, MG 1, MG 2, MG Solid 1, MG Solid 2, MG Solid 4?
It's odd, but there's probably more story and continuity in the Metal Gear MSX originals than there is in Half-Life 1. If you don't want
the entire story, don't highlight the spoiler:
Gordon Freeman, employee of the Private Reasearch Facility Black Mesa, arrives to work at the Anomalous Materials Lab and pushes a cart into a laser beam causing a 'Resonance Cascade'. Aliens from an alternative dimension named 'Xen' flood through. Gordon is told to go for the surface for help. The US Army's Hazardous Environment Combat Unit (HECU) is coming to rescue the facility, but it turns out that their orders are to kill everyone involved instead. Gordon keeps to the industrial areas of the base to avoid the HECU, launches a satalite that may provide the means for reversing the cascade, but is apprehended and thrown in a waste compactor. He escapes and continues his journey to the Lambda Complex, the primary teleportation laboratory. When he finally gets there, he is sent to Xen to deal with the being responsible for the cascade's maintainence, the Nihilianth. He kills the Nihlianth and finds himself face to face with the mysterious suited man he has seen wandering around the complex all along. He is offered a job by this man, though what he will be doing is unclear.
Or to put the first two games less delicately:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRsexrhbG8