How did you find out about Starcraft? - Page 3

On May 11 2010 09:00 zeratultassadar wrote:
Now that we are at the dawn of BW's coming of age and Flash pretty much "solved" BW multiplayer, I figured it's more appropriate than ever to talk about how we first encountered the wonderful world of Starcraft (and to some extent Teamliquid and the pro Korean scene).

Well, I still remember I went to my friend's house once and his little sister was playing terran in one of the singleplayer missions. While she seemingly clicked randomly on the mouse (hotkeys weren't around yet), my friend commented the action. He had already figured out that terran was a turtling and defensive race (mind you, this was 1999). He told me that bunker-turret was a very strong defense and that putting siege tanks behind the bunkers made an impenetrable wall. Of course I believed him --- after all, this was the same guy that introduced me to The Matrix, DragonBallZ, and anime.

I played BW for a while. I got into the single player campaigns but mostly found them to be boring (and pretty challenging too...ah, power invincible, black sheep wall, and show me the money helped a lot ...and since I was on a Microsoft 95, operation cwal was an absolute necessity!!!

So then I started playing the comp in custom matches (Plains of 98, anyone?) I thought the comp was pretty good at first, but then I noticed (after a few months) that all I had to do was put one bunker with 4 marines in front of his ramp and it would suicide 20 hydralisks attacking the bunker and never touch my scvs repairing it. Then you just bring your tanks in, it's all over. The Tayamat Brood has been eliminated. Good times.

Actually I imagine that's how Flash got hooked on terran. After seeing how invincible 4 marines in a bunker (with a little help from a retarded cpu) could be.

So all was well. It was around spring of 2001. And I still had a crappy and slow computer. I started going to the local library to play starcraft but the librarians started shoving me out because the game was too "violent", or whatever. Between the librarians practically child abusing me and my home computer literally crashing every time I started SC (I don't know what happened, really) I eventually gave the game up. I uninstalled starcraft.

The cd lay beneath my bed for more than 6 years. Little did I know that the Korean pro scene was only getting started in 2001...

I found myself looking for my car keys sometime around December 2008. And then I found the cd, which had collected a moderate amount of dust over this time. I decided to try it out again, just for the heck of it.

I discovered the Korean scene in early 2009. My favorite player back then was NalRa, then I started liking Bisu. I started to play a lot of 4v4 noobs BGH and Python 4noobs on Bnet. I heard about iccup in August 2009. I played my first iccup game in September. I still remember the game: I was zerg and 4 pooled my terran opponent. He wasn't ready for the rush and didn't have enough marines, but he quickly made a bunker next to his command center and I forgot to kill the scv. I played practically every day after that. I was hooked.

I'm not a very good player, even today. Not better than D+ (at my best). But, whenever I'm in the ingame chat, I always tell my opponent, GLHF. But most importantly, have fun, because it's the only way you'll want to play more...and you never know, you might just get lucky and win

I'm hoping SC2 can hold as much sentimental value for me as BW did...I'm hoping...