Brands
There are many commercial brands advertising their products and services on the streets of the Cursed Apple. Here's a list of them and their possible real world inspirations.
Summary[edit | edit source]
- Afterlife Credit House
- Astral Plane Canned Mille-Pattes Dazzle
- Baroness Hotel - Baroness Hotel in Seattle, WA (close to Valve's office in Bellevue)
- Bradley's Tonics and Salves
- Carpenter Brand Sparkling Brut - French musician Carpenter Brut (named after American filmmaker John Carpenter)
- Classic Blue Paint Service
- C. M. Burns & Ashe Cremations - Charles Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons, also a pun on "see them burn"
- Filtered Nationals
- Five Eyes from Concentrate Meats and Crab 5 Eyes - Five Guys Burgers and Fries
- Fogwell's Bioluminescence
- Friedlander and Koppelman Co. Law and Curse
- Granite City Garage
- Grebb
- Happy Panda Coffee
- Hellmans Steel and Iron Works
- Hex Jazz Records
- Holy Chains
- H. West Reanimation Professionals - H.P. Lovecraft's short story Herbert West-Reanimator
- Macksound and Hoff Importers of Occultic Goods
- McMahon and Co. Purveyor of Fine Products and Altercations - Mann Co. from Team Fortress 2 ("We sell products and get in fights")
- Mosquito Prince
- Prince-S All Brand Guild Society Revue
- Red Cross Cola - Coca Cola
- Red Hand Premium Coffee - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' song Red Right Hand
- Rn Castevets Twin Omen Cigar - The Castevets family from the movie Rosemary's Baby
- Sanctuary Horn Wax
- Sanguine Laceration
- Talisman Brand Amulets
- The 66th Store
- The New York Oracle - The New York Times
- W.E. Kurtz & Sons - Colonel Kurtz from the movie Apocalypse Now
- White Crow Bleak Thoughts - In Russian, "White Crow" is an expression similar to "Black Sheep" in English
- Willeford Pharmaceuticals - American detective fiction author Charles Willeford
Items[edit | edit source]
Some of the posters are advertising in-game items.
- Basic Magazine
- Health Nova (item renamed to Healing Nova)
- Improved Cooldown
- Melee Lifesteal
- Metal Skin
- Mystic Reach
- Rescue Beam
- Tesla Bullets
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Happy Panda Coffee replaced a previous poster that read "Sad Panda Coffee - Always Bitter".
- Astral Plane Canned Mille-Pattes Dazzle used to be called Astral Plane Canned Centipedes in an earlier version of the billboard.
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