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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...
 
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long-anticipated since playing WarCraft II (ah the good old days of playing my neighbors via modem multiplayer).
Learned about TL after broodwar.com and broodwar.co.yu went under, I had to ask around for what was a good site to follow the Korean pro-scene. Joined up in 2003.
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was playing AoE:II a lot and was looking for a similar game.
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Through a gaming magazine. I had played Warcraft II previously and really liked it, so when I read that Starcraft was released I just had to get it. Especially because it has big and cool units like archons, battlecruisers and carriers. Oh, what it was to be a kid.
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I was hooked back in 2000 when a friend and I basically had our hands on Warcraft II and Starcraft. You can imagine which we picked. We were horrible, and spent our time playing the computer using only black sheep wall and show me the money. Eventually, when Warcraft III came out, he moved on and I moved to New Jersey. Then I got rehooked at the end of 2008, created an account in the middle of 2009, and here I am. Bisu, BeSt, July, and IntotheRainbow were my absolute favorite players at the time, and once I watched ForGG and Midas's VODs I started loving them too. I play starcraft semi-casually now.
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Was just walking through Wal-Mart about 10 years ago and was browsing the computer games section when I found a box that said Starcraft on it. Looked pretty cool so I put it on my birthday list. rest is history :O
prior to Starcraft I never really played any PC games, some Warcraft, Warcraft II and C&C. I was obsessed with it, I remember my parents being pretty mad because we had dial-up at the time and I was going over the limit for it lmao.
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Started around 1999. Mom's co-worker gave me the game when I was at her work place. It was 2 years before I got internet and played on bnet, lol.
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1999. Got a first PC in my home. The installer installed few games for me to enjoy. An icon that looked like a flying object caught my eye.
Rest is history.
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bought the game the first day it came out, I was actually looking for warcraft 2, because I had tried it at a friends and loved it. The clerk told me starcraft just came out, and to try that instead. I took it home and played offline for a few months before getting bored. About a year later I realized how popular the game was online, and immediately started playing it religiously over battle.net (ladder challenges anyone?)
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cant remenber the year, but my brother told me that he and his friends played that, it was 2000, as i child i became hooked and my favorite race was protoss, i use all the cheats and built a big zealot dragoon army
you may kill me, but i only discovered that building more than 1 gateway was WAY better than stay in 1 gateway like after i finished both campaings(with all cheats) and i also stayed on 1 base
I left but i rediscovered starcraft in early 2009, when i played with my friends, i became hooked (again) and we use to play everytime we could in garena, i didnt know iccup exsisted till i discovered teamliquid, but i actually started following the korean pro-scene in late 2009, a week before flash vs jd, nowadays i dont play to much but im waiting for sc2 and watching every korean 13:00 match (cause the others are to late for me  )
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was just at a store and thought the battle chest looked cool so i bought it
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I used to watch my brother play a lot and sometimes I'd play vs computer with all cheats except power overwhelming on and just have giant battles and only build dragoons because they were cool and shot cool futuristic weapons
eventually I got hooked onto various UMS maps and (gasp!) fastest maps, but I learned the error in my ways a switched to low money
I started watching my brother in 2001 I think
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My dad gave it to me.
I'm Korean...;;
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I remember one of my brothers friends extolling its virtues, and showed me reavers, plus it was a game I could play on our stone age PC, I didn't get into multiplayer until I had proper internet, not 44k dial up modem, but I always played Skirmish, and thought that the AI was the hardest thing ever.
A total noob, but my heart was in the right place.
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On May 11 2010 09:57 Kingfisher wrote:
I'm Korean
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My cousins showed me the game, and still to do this day, they rape me everytime...
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My friend kept playing SC and told me to buy a copy. Since it was only $20 I decided why not.
Also, I really wouldn't say that  Flash really has the game figured out. At least, not more so than  sAviOr did.
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The code is actually power overwhelming.
I had been playing warcraft 2 at a local comic/lan place for at least a year, like 1996-1997, lot of diablo players there as well, and many people talking about 'warcraft in space'. So naturally I was interested.
At first when the game came out I had mostly quit gaming and focusing on skateboarding and playing card games like MTG and Overpower. So I didn't even pay attention when it came out. I even saw some old friends playing it and they said it wasn't as fun as war2. So I didn't even bother to play it.
A few months later, My friend had a copy and invited me over to play with a few other friends. We had tons of fun all night. A week later another friend had a copy and we were playing direct connect 56k modem games. Running back and forth. Shit was so ghetto but so fun.
Been playing off an on ever since. Right now I've been totally hooked into sc2 so SCBW is all but the past now.
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On May 11 2010 09:58 Folca wrote:
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Hey you're from Australia? Come to op [TA] on iCCup and join the Australian clan ^^
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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
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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)
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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.
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I was practically raised in a lan center when I hit 12... SC AOE serious sam were all the rage there
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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.
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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 >_<
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Being a Korean with Korean friends in 3rd grade.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Saw my brother's friend play starcraft ums 6 years ago. bought starcraft a while after that and only played ums lol.
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friend bought it in '98 or '99, can't really remember. I leeched off people I knew until the parents finally let us get a decent pc in '01 or '02.
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This makes me miss being 12 =(. First time i saw it was at a sleepover for my friends bday and one guy got him broodwar cuz he had original sc and him and the guy played online all night while the rest of us played sega. I didn't understand it but i knew it looked cool.
The i'd hear about it on the bus to school and people would be saying "zerg, terran protoss" and ask me which one i preferred, and id be like "zerg all the way" just cuz it sounded cool(this was before i even knew completely that it was an rts and stuff)
I put it on my birthday list after reading an article in a magazine at school that literally used the word spank. it said something liek "people thinking terran is weak were in for a surprise when korean players spanked them with terran" So then i got interested....found out my classmates were into it. played like 2 zerg missions and then went online... my first time playing it is actually up there for happiest moments.
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my dad's friend got us a cracked version of the game to "try" it out when the game first came out.
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My brother bought it and I watched him play. I didn't play much though, I was really young and my 5 barracks 6 engineering bay build order kept getting raped by the computers.
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a hard of hearing friend of mine, Crono of the old clan LiZarD and I went to this camp one time, and he started talking about zealot rushes (this was back in I believe summer 1999) and I was lost in what the fuck he was talking about. Introduced me to the game at his house later on, brought the game, and got hooked once I understood the game.
I remember the first time he was Zerg, I was terran on Lost Temple, he just simply massed up the map with zerglings then he shared version with me and I was like holy shit and went killing off some with 2 or 3 bcs. too much lings to handle.
After a while I started practicing when I could, despite having busy schedules with school, sports, and social activities. Better game sense and more aggresiveness I guess, then I started beating him half of our 1v1s after that despite him playing so much more than me, 14 hours some days, over the summers. I guess he somewhat disappeared after losing to my toss more than he'd like heh.
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Ten years ago. Christmas time.
I was over at my younger cousin's house and I see him playing some computer game. I sit down next to him, click on the second computer then we play 2v1 against the computer. We lose. We decide to play each other. I lose. Being the stubborn little kid I was I wanted to get better and beat my younger cousin. Some time later, I buy the game. Switch from Terran to Protoss and then get addicted. I never got around to playing my cousin but I eventually stop playing with school and jobs and whatnot. Some time later I see the epic game of Savior vs Iris on Neo Arkanoid and fall in love with progaming.
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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...
DUDE this is exactly how it happened for me too lol 90% your story is almost like mine lol. korean proleague and my friend that is A- in iccup got me motivated to play starcraft. boxer was the first progamer i discovered then eventually stork is my favorite.
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From my neighbors, they rented Starcraft: 64 from Blockbuster and were playing it on their N64 and my friend's older brother was owning him with carriers.
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