my 'friend' lost his cd-key for half life also, he went to wal-mart and opened a box and wrote down a cd key, then he took his car keys and scratched out the cd key and put it in the box. he went home ...

Ok, I have a retail version of half-life that I purchased when it first came out. It worked fine at that time. I reinstalled it two years ago for counter-strike and it worked fine. Now I just tried ...