Went to my friends after school, he showed me this new game he just got. I honestly thought it looked shit, but he talked me into getting it and we played over the net on our 56ks. I started to love it. He eventually got bored and i got hooked on the proscene. Every few years id find a game that tore me away from SC but i always come back <3

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

May 11 2010 01:15 GMT

#22

A friend of mine introduced it to me my freshman year of high school. He was saying how great it was and I big a AOE 2 fan couldn't believe it would better.

Talk about one of the biggest surprises in my life.

Chuiu

3470 Posts

May 11 2010 01:26 GMT

#23

I was playing a well known RTS by the name of Warcraft 2 and noticed previews for upcoming games in it. One was Starcraft, the other Diablo. Totally stoked, I got Starcraft the day it was released.

TwilightStar

United States649 Posts

May 11 2010 01:26 GMT

#24

My dad used to play a lot of WarCraft II, so naturally he bought StarCraft when it came out. (I was about 5 at the time, and I had loved playing War2, so I played SC whenever I could.) I've been playing it ever since

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

May 11 2010 01:28 GMT

#25

Watched my brother play the game back in 1998, 2 years after I was born(was born in the same year and month that SC was released ^^) and still do when he comes home from college and plays the awesome game of SC

. Ever since I first laid on the game of SC I pleaded my parents and brother to let me play it. I started off in 2008 playing the game on the old cpu I used to watch my brother play it on. I got pretty skilled at it and as a birthday gift in 2009 I got the battlechest and started playing it on multiplayer and immediately started destroying the poor noobs on B.net who didn't even know how to do a horror gate, yet alone what it was called. All the poor noobs knew was that I was destroying them with mass cheese and many didn't even follow my advice or know that teamliquid.net existed.

Heres another question, how did you find out about teamliquid.net?

I found out about TL.net from searching on google for a good guide for SC after realizing right away from just glimpsing at the strategies in the original guide for SC that they were not just outdated, they were cpu level strategies, if that! The first result google gave was TL.net and I immediately clicked thinking it was a pro team's site that I hadn't heard of and found out it was a foreign team's site and I immediately looked at the recommended threads and started reading the protoss guides and some zerg guides. I love TL almost as much as I love SC:BW and now I have beta for SC:II and I am almost as happy as when I got the ability to play SC:BW on battle.net.

zoOv

Australia269 Posts

May 11 2010 01:29 GMT

#26

Hey you're from Australia? Come to op [TA] on iCCup and join the Australian clan ^^

Fogul

United Kingdom179 Posts

May 11 2010 01:46 GMT

#27

On May 11 2010 10:28 3FFA wrote:
Watched my brother play the game back in 1998, 2 years after I was born(was born in the same year and month that SC was released ^^)

Damn i feel old now

FyRe_DragOn

Canada2056 Posts

May 11 2010 01:59 GMT

#28

my friend introduced me to it. At first i thought it looked boring but then he explained that you could actually build armies and control them to destroy your enemies - a concept which was totally new to me at that time. I played through the campaign (with cheats lol) and fell in love.

I didnt actually buy the game until a year or so afterwards, partially because my mom didnt have a computer and didnt think we needed one, but my friend introduced me to multiplayer at his house as well, my mind was blown by how fast it was. (also due to the fact that we usually played on an ancient computer in his room with no internet - to play multiplayer we used a much faster computer, so it was like going from slowest speed to fast or faster bw time)

Jenbu

United States115 Posts

May 11 2010 02:03 GMT

#29

my dad bought me a game for my birthday when i was in 4th or 5th grade. it was Starcraft, but not on the computer.. on the N64! I later found out that it originally was out for the PC so my parents bought it.

GreggSauce

United States566 Posts

May 11 2010 02:26 GMT

#30

I was practically raised in a lan center when I hit 12... SC AOE serious sam were all the rage there

teh leet newb

United States1999 Posts

May 11 2010 02:34 GMT

#31

I was at a summer program for like college prep (I think I was in 5th grade, Asian parents ftw). I took the writing/reading course, and we used the computers to type our essays. I had free time one day and discovered this game called "Starcraft demo". I played around with it, and it was so fucking awesome, so I went and downloaded it at home.

chongu

Malaysia2600 Posts

May 11 2010 02:36 GMT

#32

A classmate introduced it to me at a cyber cafe... proceeded with me raging over zergling rushes. Good times T__T

on the other hand, i found out abt Teamliquid.net through youtube commentators like Cholerasc, rise, moletrap and klazart >_<

Hesmyrr

Canada5776 Posts

May 11 2010 02:41 GMT

#33

I'm Korean.

Kenpachi

United States9908 Posts

May 11 2010 02:46 GMT

#34

Being a Korean with Korean friends in 3rd grade.

puppykiller

United States3137 Posts

May 11 2010 02:47 GMT

#35

While, my older brother played through the campaign, I would try to watch him without my parents noticing. My parents thought the game was too violent for me to witness as a 9 year old and I remember my mother being upset that the marine would say "you want a peice of me boy?" whenever it was produced. My older brother would always talk about how awesome the game was to me and my little brother and when he wasn't playing starcraft on the computer, we would all play games together where we pretended to be diffrent sc units. I probably spent about 7 years playing starcraft without ever playing a rea 1v1 game online. I played ums games for probably about 5 of the years (mostly impossible scenarios) before I discovered that korean sc exsisted. Then I slowly switched over to 1v1.

Jyvblamo

Canada13788 Posts

May 11 2010 02:48 GMT

#36

A friend of mine got it for Christmas/Birthday or something, and I watched him play the campaign. Didn't seem that interesting at the time. Later on I downloaded SC shareware, and played a tonne on Ultimate Patch, before eventually getting the full game from a friend.

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

May 11 2010 03:14 GMT

#37

a neighbourhood friend when iw as young introduced me to it then i fuckin loved it and when i got home i started to dl teh 29mb sc demom with my 28.8k modem connection FFFUCKKK it was sslow but i got through that then i played teh like.. 3 missions over and over again lmfao with cheats

then i went on bnet to play and i got raped by cloaked wraiths i didn't even know wtf was happening T_T

later on i continued playing after i got the real version and also played fastest money maps but onl found out about the korean scene in around 2004 whne a korean guy joined my school and schooled all of us and i was like MASTER PLZ TEACH MEEEEEE

XazXio

United States356 Posts

May 11 2010 03:17 GMT

#38

i once played warcraft 3 and fell in love with it. i wanted to buy it myself but didnt have comp at time. when i got my first comp i was 12 and only had $20, so i bought the other rts game starcraft. turned out to be the best $20's ive spent. bought warcraft 3 later down the road and starcraft won by a million miles. Sc for life.

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

May 11 2010 03:17 GMT

#39

A friend in middle school (Tyler Jones) introduced me to blizzard games/computer games in general and I became hooked. Played the original Warcraft as well as Diablo (like once) and then finally Starcraft became my game. It was amazing and still is my favorite of all games.

Smix

United States4549 Posts

May 11 2010 03:29 GMT

#40

As a little girl I grew up watching my older brother play a plethora of games (starcraft, counterstrike, rogue spear, diablo, dota, warcraft, plus a bunch of nintendo games) and I just really enjoyed watching him play each game, starcraft definitely included. I remember being pleased watching him run people over by rushing with lings lol. I was in Korea the summer after graduating highschool and suffered from jetlag so I watched the starcraft channel (other channels were sketchy) and became very amused that the game I watched my brother play as a hobby was being broadcasted as a sport in korea. Sort of felt like I was reliving those fond memories except with the addition of very enthusiastic commentators. I found the gom intel classic series tasteless commentated w/ susie online afterward, and his continual references to teamliquid brought me here... then I made my first translation (Lost Saga MSL group selections)......... haha.