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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.
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.
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France15446 Posts
Dune 2 on Genesis. :p
![[image loading]](http://obligement.free.fr/gfx/megadrive_dune2.jpg)
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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.
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First one I played was the first of the C&C Red Alert games. First one I played seriously at all was SC though.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51114 Posts
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On July 26 2010 22:50 BLinD-RawR wrote:
CnC:RA1
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I wasn't interested in RTS at all until:
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.
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Age of Empires, it was the first game overall I played as well.
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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.
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Warcraft II. Got the demo with a magazine, bought the game the next day.
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Actraiser if it counts, if not Dune on MS-DOS
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warcraft 2. ive seen some C&C before that, but WC2 was the first rts i actually played. it was amazing.
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Canada2480 Posts
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![[image loading]](http://oldgames.ru/images/oldgames/screenshots/gene_wars/gene_02.jpg)
I love(d) this game so much :'<
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Starcraft.
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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.
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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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EPT![[image loading]](http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9951/commandhq.jpg)
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