History VideoGame / TeamFortressClassic

''Team Fortress Classic'' is a 1999 multiplayer FirstPersonShooter by Creator/ValveSoftware. It's an official port of the original ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' mod, released to ease the wait between it and ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', its soon-to-be-released sequel (which, considering [[Memes/ValveSoftware Valve Time]], [[ScheduleSlip naturally was released eight years later]]), and was often packaged with ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', which it is a modification of. It was also free on the disc for anyone who owned the original WON version of ''Half-Life.''

* AscendedGlitch: Players love to Bunnyhop, strafe jump, and RocketJump, all of which were regarded to be glitches in the [[VideoGame/Team Fortress1 original Team Fortress]] and its parent game, VideoGame/{{Quake I}}.

* AscendedGlitch: Players love to Bunnyhop, strafe jump, and RocketJump, all of which were regarded to be glitches in the original Team Fortress and its parent game, VideoGame/{{Quake I}}.
** The spy class originated from a glitch in the original Team Fortress that had players sometimes spawn with the wrong team colors.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The spy's tranquilizer gun makes backstabbing players much, much easier, but the dart is so slow, most spies don't use it much, as it automatically removes your disguise.

* BeatingADeadPlayer: Subverted because [[ParanoiaFuel it's a Spy feigning death.]]

* {{BFG}}: HW's Assault Cannon, the Medic's Super Nailgun, and the Soldier's Rocket Launcher and Pyro's Napalm Cannon.

** Managing to kill someone with a Nailgun.
** The tranquilizer gun is one of the weakest guns in the game. Managing to kill someone with it would end with the player never living it down for the rest of the match.

* ElectroMagneticPulse: The secondary grenades of the engineer, which can set a detpack's timer to one, destroy a player's ammo (which can range from doing minor damage to a [[OneHitKill one-hit kill]] depending on the class), and can easily obliterate an enemy engineer's buildings.

It was later inducted into the canon of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', placing the Classic teams between ''[=TF2=]''[='=]s teams and the original 1850's teams, as Mann. Co's 1930s paramilitary fighting force. The BLU mercs in particular go on to [[spoiler: fight the [=TF2=] mercs]] in the webcomic as well.

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* MoreDakka: The Heavy's minigun of course. Also, the Medic's Super Nailgun, which is basically a Tommy Gun with BottomlessMagazines. [[CaptainObvious That shoots nails.]]

''Team Fortress Classic'' is a 1999 multiplayer FirstPersonShooter by Creator/ValveSoftware. It's an official port of the original ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' mod, released to ease the wait between it and ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', its soon-to-be-released sequel (which, considering [[Memes/ValveSoftware Valve Time]], [[ScheduleSlip naturally was released eight years later]]), and was often packaged with ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''. It was also free on the disc for anyone who owned the original WON version of ''Half-Life.''

''Team Fortress Classic'' is a 1999 multiplayer FirstPersonShooter by Creator/ValveSoftware. It's an official port of the original ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' mod, released to ease the wait between it and ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', its soon-to-be-released sequel (which, considering [[Memes/ValveSoftware Valve Time]], [[ScheduleSlip naturally was released eight years later]]), and was often packaged with ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''.

Unlike its cartoonier sequel, ''Team Fortress Classic'' had no backstory at all. Two teams, Red and Blue, either try to steal each others' flags, assassinate a scared-looking fellow, or impede their progress through a desert or Italian town. No corporation civil wars, no MultinationalTeam [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits of misfits]] ... just nails and bullets and grenades.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Super Shotgun sure as hell is. It makes a very good sidearm for the Soldier, Heavy, and Spy due to its [[JackOfAllStats decent accuracy, good damage, average capacity, and for having plentiful ammo.]]
** The single-barrel shotgun on the other hand, has very little damage output and is pretty much next to useless on every class except for scouts.

* CrossDressingVoices: On accident. Valve later retconned TFC Pyro into a woman, despite her using the same male voicelines as the other characters.

Unlike its cartoonier sequel, ''Team Fortress Classic'' had no backstory at all. Two teams, Red and Blue, either try to steal each others' flags, assassinate a scared-looking fellow, or impede their progress through a desert or Italian town. No corporation civil wars, no MultinationalTeam [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits of misfits]] ... just nails and grenades.

''Team Fortress Classic'' is a 1999 multiplayer HeroShooter by Creator/ValveSoftware. It's an official port of the original ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' mod, released to ease the wait between it and ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', its soon-to-be-released sequel (which, considering [[Memes/ValveSoftware Valve Time]], [[ScheduleSlip naturally was released eight years later]]), and was often packaged with ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''.

* AnachronismStew: A given due to the fact that neither the base game itself nor any add-on made for it were made with the idea that it took place in the 1930s

* DeathIsNotPermanent: Unlike in VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}, you respawn immediately after you die.

* AbandonedLaboratory: Due to it being a mod of ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', most maps like destroy_1 and Shutdown look as inhabited as Black Mesa.

* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents - Every class uses the same lines spoken with a slight New York dialect.
* AnnouncerChatter - an extremely common server-side mod will make the game announce a "KILLING SPREE!!!", a "M-m-m-m-monster kill!!!", a "Headshot!", or a "HUMILIATION!!!" (knife, crowbar, med-kit, or wrench kill), taken from Quake and Unreal Tournament.
* AscendedGlitch: Players love to Bunnyhop, strafe jump, and RocketJump, all of which are glitches in the original Team Fortress and its parent game, VideoGame/{{Quake I}}.
** The spy class originated from a glitch in the original Team Fortress that had players with the wrong team colors.

* {{BFG}}: HW's Minigun, the Medic's Super Nailgun, and the Soldier's Rocket Launcher and Pyro's Napalm Cannon.
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Can be use full for teammates if asked to be blown across the map by your weapons.
* BoomHeadshot: The original Team Fortress is the UrExample for [[FirstPersonShooter FPSs]] and used here as well.

* CherryTapping: On some servers, killing someone with a melee weapon will play the VideoGame/{{Quake III Arena}} humiliation sound clip.

** The tranquilizer gun is one of the weakest guns in the game. Managing to kill someone with it will always ends with the player never living it down for the rest of the match.

* ConstructAdditionalPylons: The more Dispensers around Engineers the faster they get metal to build with.
* CrowbarCombatant: Default melee weapon unless the class gets something more specialized. No actual justification why a bunch of highly specialized mercenaries all use a crowbar for their melee weapon of choice.

* DeathIsNotPermanent: Unlike VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}, you respawn immediately after you die.

** A spy's gas grenade can make you see and hear things that aren't there such as grenades or bullet marks on the walls.

* MistakenForSpies: Even more than in [=TF2=] because the spy's disguise looks the same for all teams.

* RangedEmergencyWeapon: The Engineer's railgun. Terrible damage output and rate of fire, but it has a unique ammo supply. There's also the Sniper's secondary fire, which uses up precious sniper ammo and is only meant to damage an ambusher while getting away.

* RealIsBrown: Played Straight in the original Quake Mod, subverted here.

* SamusIsAGirl: In the ''Webcomic/TeamFortress2'' canon, TFC's Pyro is a middle-aged lady named Beatrice.

** Rock 2's shower and nerve gas is a shout out to the [[Film/TheRock The Rock]].

* AwesomeButImpractical: The spy's tranqulizer gun makes backstabbing players much, much easier, but the dart is so slow, most spies don't use it much, as it automatically removes your disguise.

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: The Pyro is infamously underpowered. [[SamusIsAGirl Her]]) flamethrower deals average damage with horrible reach, and the lingering flames deal a whopping eight damage; most classes have 100 health. The Incendiary Cannon is like the Soldier's Rocket Launcher, but about 40% weaker. She's got average armor, decent speed, but most damningly doesn't have the Double Shotgun that so many other middle-of-the-road classes can fall back on.

* KillItWithFire: The Pyro, who has a bit more fire to play with compared to his Team Fortress 2 counterpart. The flamethrower behaves differently than ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' flamethrowers, as the fire blast doesn't "turn" as fast, and is [[VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck pathetically weak]]. The Napalm Cannon is an [=AoE=]-based Flare Gun/Rocket Launcher combo that has more ammo than the rocket launcher or the flare gun, but its projectiles and reload time are far slower.

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: The Pyro is infamously underpowered. His (or rather, [[SamusIsAGirl her]]) flamethrower deals average damage with horrible reach, and the lingering flames deal a whopping eight damage; most classes have 100 health. The Incendiary Cannon is like the Soldier's Rocket Launcher, but about 40% weaker. She's got average armor, decent speed, but most damningly doesn't have the Double Shotgun that so many other middle-of-the-road classes can fall back on.

* {{Homage}}: The very popular level "Rock2" was based on the movie ''Film/TheRock''. The bases were prisons, and capturing the "flag" involved taking the gas to a dispersal room and setting it off (then frantically running to a safe room before poison gas killed everyone on the map.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Rock2's underground's passage counts as this.
* AdjustableCensorship: As with other GoldSRC games, there was an option to change the blood into sweat and remove gibbing and death animations.

** Rock2's shower and nerve gas is a shout out to the [[Film/TheRock The Rock]].