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The first RTS you played

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Ghad
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway2551 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-26 14:02:52
July 26 2010 13:46 GMT
#1
So the first reports are coming that the first lucky players are installing Starcraft 2, as their time zone is coming to the 27th.
This kinda reminds me of new years eve 1999-2000, when there was live coverage of the celebrations as they moved around the world with the time zones, we saw the fireworks in Sydney when it still was early in the day here. 8 1/4 hours left to midnight Oslo time now :D

On this last day before the release of Starcraft 2 I find it fitting to take a look back in time. But wait, this is not yet another article about Starcraft 1 or even Warcraft, others have written much better about these games than I could ever do.

What was your first true RTS? For me I have to say it was Command HQ, which I remember buying on a trip to England in the summer of probably 1991. It was a wargame where you could play one of the two factions in either WWI, WWII, or a hypothetical 1986 WWIII scenario, as well as a future scenario.

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Of course things were a lot simpler back in those days, but all the core gameplay elements were there (even replays!), and the gameplay was incredibly fluent. I actually still play this game once in a while.

Check it out:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/command-hq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_HQ


Edit:
Note that there were quite a few strategy games that implemented some kind of realtime gameplay well before CHQ, but many of them had large parts of the game using static menu screens that would pause the rest of the gameplay. Granted you could actually regulate the ingame speed in CHQ to a full pause, but it was not default behavior.
Examples: Realms, Megalomaniac, Populous. (Maybe even Ports of Call, event if it wasn't a war game.) Ahh, good times.

forgottendreams: One underage girl, two drunk guys, one gogo dancer and starcraft 2. Apparently just another day in Europe.
PoP
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
France15446 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-26 13:47:36
July 26 2010 13:46 GMT
#2
Dune 2 on Genesis. :p

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seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9756 Posts
July 26 2010 13:49 GMT
#3
WarCraft II

back when i was like 10 or something. SC was out then, but i hadn't played it. I tried playing a legit game, died within making my first grunt, then went to playing the mass footmen stuff. and mageball. also space wars.

i remember when i tried to type "it is a good day to die" in the footmen wars crap. ah, those were the days.
boomer hands
Musoeun
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States4324 Posts
July 26 2010 13:50 GMT
#4
First one I played was the first of the C&C Red Alert games. First one I played seriously at all was SC though.
Don't Shoot the Penguins. | Dance, 성은, dance! | Killer FanKlub | Action sucks. | Storm Terran hwaiting.
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50107 Posts
July 26 2010 13:50 GMT
#5
CnC:RA1
Brood War EICWoo Jung Ho, never forget.| Twitter: @BLinDRawR
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Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
July 26 2010 13:53 GMT
#6
On July 26 2010 22:50 BLinD-RawR wrote:
CnC:RA1

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-26 13:57:37
July 26 2010 13:53 GMT
#7
I wasn't interested in RTS at all until:
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wololo

I played the SHIT out of this game. Probably a couple hundred hours total. I even did pretty well online. (With my really expensive 18.8kbps connection too) After a year, I went to the store to buy the expansion

Oh hey what's this game with the wierd guy on the front? Starcraft? I'm gonna try that out...
And the rest is history.
U Gotta Skate.
SmiLeSE
Profile Joined February 2010
Sweden58 Posts
July 26 2010 13:53 GMT
#8
Age of Empires, it was the first game overall I played as well.
Ghad
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway2551 Posts
July 26 2010 13:53 GMT
#9
On July 26 2010 22:46 PoP wrote:
Dune 2 on Genesis. :p
http://obligement.free.fr/gfx/megadrive_dune2.jpg



Yeah, holy crap that game was golden, I still remember being totally blown away by the sound effects and speech (!) from my Soundblaster 2.0 sound card. That game is probably the first rts with the kind of harvester mechanics we almost take for granted today.
forgottendreams: One underage girl, two drunk guys, one gogo dancer and starcraft 2. Apparently just another day in Europe.
Necosarius
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Sweden4042 Posts
July 26 2010 13:54 GMT
#10
The starcraft demo!
Navane
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Netherlands2747 Posts
July 26 2010 13:54 GMT
#11
Dune 2.
Deyster
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Jordan579 Posts
July 26 2010 13:54 GMT
#12
Warcraft II. Got the demo with a magazine, bought the game the next day.
Watch the minimap.
Mortician
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Bulgaria2332 Posts
July 26 2010 13:56 GMT
#13
Actraiser if it counts, if not Dune on MS-DOS
"If anything, the skill cap in sc2 is higher [than sc1] because there are a lot more things you can do at one given time. " darmousseh
WiljushkA
Profile Joined March 2006
Serbia1416 Posts
July 26 2010 13:58 GMT
#14
warcraft 2. ive seen some C&C before that, but WC2 was the first rts i actually played. it was amazing.
"As much as I love the image of me F5-ing paypal every 15 minutes while fist pumping and screaming "SHIP THE MONEY BITCHES"" - Day9
Quanticfograw
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States2053 Posts
July 26 2010 14:00 GMT
#15
Starcraft !!!!!!
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swanized
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Canada2480 Posts
July 26 2010 14:01 GMT
#16
Dune 2000 on PC
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Ethenielle
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Norway1006 Posts
July 26 2010 14:03 GMT
#17
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I love(d) this game so much :'<
Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Sentient66
Profile Joined July 2009
United States651 Posts
July 26 2010 14:03 GMT
#18
Starcraft.
seNsiX.421
KinosJourney2
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden1811 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-26 14:06:47
July 26 2010 14:04 GMT
#19
Warcraft 2, then my cousin introduced me to Starcraft

I remember the first glimpse i had of SC1 was when my cousin was playing Protoss and had built his base in a gigantic blob in the middle of the map with 200/200 reavers. Funny enough though i never had Protoss as my main race, i hated fighting against Protoss and i wasn't that good with their buildings either so i played more Terran instead.
ocho wrote: EDIT: NEVERMIND, THIS THING HAS APM TECHNOLOGY OMG
Inkblood
Profile Joined February 2010
United States463 Posts
July 26 2010 14:04 GMT
#20
First RTS I played was Starcraft, back when Brood War had just come out. A friend of mine showed it to me, and let me barrow it.

I really liked it and bought my own after returning in to aforementioned friend.

I was a total noob back then though. I remember going, "Hey these SCV's look pretty darn awesome." and used them to kill Zerglings and stuff along with my Marines.

In fact I think that was the first game I played on my computer apart from Loader Larry. (Which had badass sound effects by the way.)
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