{"id":1835,"date":"2023-05-18T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2023-05-18T10:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:05:04","slug":"the-first-olf-nolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/the-first-olf-nolf\/","title":{"rendered":"The First **LF: NOLF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once upon a time I used a program called <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinMX\" target=\"_blank\">WinMX<\/a> to download my warez, including music, movies, and games. One game I accidentally downloaded was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_One_Lives_Forever_2:_A_Spy_in_H.A.R.M.%27s_Way\" target=\"_blank\">No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.&#8217;s Way<\/a>, which was an ISO that I was able to use <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_One_Lives_Forever_2:_A_Spy_in_H.A.R.M.%27s_Way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DAEMON Tools<\/a> to play. Upon playing this game I immediately fell in love with the Genre and Playstyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I revisited this recently because of some <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3032476\/\" target=\"_blank\">Better Call Saul<\/a> YouTube shorts. I learned that Saul&#8217;s full name was, among other aliases, Saul Goodman, and remembered that in the NOLF2 gameplay there was a level where you were looking around someone&#8217;s house with the same last name. I discovered the actual name was &#8220;Tom Goodman&#8221;, which then led me down the subsequent licensing issues whirlwind. Apparently Vivendi, Monolith, Sierra, Fox, Blizzard, and now Activision couldn&#8217;t find the IP for the game, so after <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Contract_J.A.C.K.\" target=\"_blank\">Contract Jack<\/a>&#8216;s prequel\/sequel was done and assets were sold nobody knew who owned what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Wikipedia and the Open Source community, and with a HUGE nod to the source code being released there is a whole community to make sure this awesome game is available for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/nolfrevival.tk\/\" target=\"_blank\">No One Lives Forever: Revival<\/a>, this is the physical new home for NOLF\/NOLF2\/Jack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moddb.com\/games\/no-one-lives-forever-2-a-spy-in-harm\/downloads\/no-one-lives-forever-2-toolkit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Toolkit for NOLF2<\/a>, released by Monolith and Sierra is available for download.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing missing is nolfgirl.com, which (to wit) was the original forums. Currently it&#8217;s for sale by HugeDomains for $1,995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe ilovenolf.com would be the next Cate Archer fansite to make sure the IP moves along to the community? Projects, projects, projects&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#memories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time I used a program called WinMX to download my warez, including music, movies, and games. One game I accidentally downloaded was No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.&#8217;s Way, which was an ISO that I was able to use DAEMON Tools to play. Upon playing this game I immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}