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o3.power91
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Bahrain5288 Posts
December 26 2008 21:23 GMT
#21
I've been playing for almost 2 years now. I only played melee for a bit more than a year though. I voted "No, I just started"
Titusmaster6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5937 Posts
December 26 2008 21:38 GMT
#22
I was first introduced to it when released and have played here and there ever since.
Shorts down shorts up, BOOM, just like that.
SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13069 Posts
December 26 2008 21:43 GMT
#23
started playing like 1 month before pgt died
Stork and KHAN fan till 2012 ...
Navane
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Netherlands2749 Posts
December 26 2008 21:48 GMT
#24
1998 :D
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
December 26 2008 21:58 GMT
#25
I played Warcraft 2 with my friends back in 1996 by dialing their phone numbers with a 14.4 modem. No one I knew was on the Internet, and b.net didn't even exist then.
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
Meta
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States6225 Posts
December 26 2008 22:00 GMT
#26
picked up starcraft for the first time when I was in the seventh grade (2001), came to teamliquid at the start of 2002.
good vibes only
zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-26 23:36:02
December 26 2008 23:26 GMT
#27
I remember fist playing Starcraft in the summer when I was staying over at a friends house. Judging by the patch dates, I think I bought it in spring or summer of 1999. I remember as far back as 1.02 and the hatchery being 350 minerals, but I'm not sure I ever actually played at that time (and even if I did, I mostly 4 pooled hahaha). Pretty sure I was around for 1.05 to 1.06 though. I remember being enraged at 1.08 and the cost increase of the spawning pool and hydra den and upgrades. Zerg was so awesome. ;/

I also read ICantWin and Stacraft.org before I even owned the game, I wanted it so much. I vaguely recall reading the battle reports between Grr and D22-Soso before having the game, and then I bought it shortly after. Starcraft.org slowly going down the tubes was pretty sad.

I also remember playing the Starcraft demo vs for hours on end. You could only play Terran and it was an absolute slideshow between 56k and a garbage computer, and it probably took 20 minutes to straight tech to vultures (which is what I always did).
sigma_x
Profile Joined March 2008
Australia285 Posts
December 26 2008 23:34 GMT
#28
I played starcraft in primary school and i'm now at university, so that has to count for something lol.
hooktits
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States972 Posts
December 27 2008 00:51 GMT
#29
i started in 99 playing newb games then moved on too 1v1 bnet ladder, then stopped in 2001 then started up again in 2007 started playing iccup after a month of coming back...
Hooktits of Tits gaming @hooktits twit
404.Nintu
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada1723 Posts
December 27 2008 01:09 GMT
#30
Since SC2 announcement for me. It's ironic that I'm such a micro player when you consider how new I am. I guess I've seen a few too many Nada and Boxer micro clips. =)
"So, then did the American yum-yum clown monkey also represent the FCC?"
gg_hertzz
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
2152 Posts
December 27 2008 02:29 GMT
#31
since around 2000 i think.
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
December 27 2008 02:39 GMT
#32
It was introduced to me in 8th grade, but i never took it seriously. I picked it up again in July, so I consider myself new to the game.
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
craz3d
Profile Joined August 2005
Bulgaria856 Posts
May 13 2009 06:12 GMT
#33
I played since '99 as well. And yeah, I vaguely remember some old school sites like montaro.org and broodwar.com (i don't think it was org) and of course battlereports.com had new reports coming out often.

Before 1.08 I was realllly bad, I think my ladder high was like 1075 using a muta rush strat that I made up (and practised vs. the computer lol). Oh and Lost Temple was reaaaallly imbalanced, such as tanks being used to shoot into mains from a number of different positions.

Hello World!
DrTJEckleburg
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1080 Posts
May 13 2009 06:59 GMT
#34
On December 27 2008 04:40 eXigent. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 27 2008 04:23 Phrogs! wrote:
On December 27 2008 03:51 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
Hmm i consider myself middle school
Im not old school as in like started playing like 1998 but i dont consider myself new school.
I first played campaign i think around fall 2002 or something but really got into sc and the proscene around fall 2004. During ever


On December 27 2008 04:10 fusionsdf wrote:
umm

about a year competitively
about 2 to 2+1/2 years in total


Heh. So interesting to me as a person who's very new to the game and bought it with foreknowledge of (and because of) it's highly competetive scene. Hell, I've never played the campaign.

I voted "No, I've only just started", I've been playing only a few months.

I almost regret missing old school awesome VODs (and I'm looking forward to Old VOD Night), but the modern very mechanical style is what drew me in and amazes me. (Like how deep positional moves in chess are as amazing as queen sacs just not as extravagent)


Yeah I bet it would be different coming into the game after its already been balanced perfectly, and the metagame has been ironed out enough for people to mass practice. The game has come soo far with balancing, its not really the same game it started out as soo long ago. I remember when players from x17 or ladder challenges first started playing koreans as the game was released over there. Many were just plain stumped as to how they were losing. It was a fun and exciting time. I remember visiting a few amazing websites back then, my favorites being

www.icantwin.com
www.montaro.org
www.starcraft.org
www.broodwar.org
www.taofogaming.com

These sites were amazing at the time, and provided some of the earliest multiplayer content worthy of reading. Replays were non-existant, and would not come for a few more years. The game had much more mystery to it, because unless you actually played with the top players (INAgent911, Pillars, TillerMaN, Grrrr, Zileas, Montaro, D22-SoSo, D23-Gad, Kain-the-feared, Maynard and many more) you wouldn't really know how the game was played at that level. It made for more desire to achieve a higher level of skill, just so you could play with these players.

Ive always been curious to know what some of those really old school players are doing, and if they know how far starcraft has truely come. Players like D22-SoSo who dominated the game for a short time when it was first released, and then quit very early on. He missed out on 9 years of starcraft and all of the competitions and progress it has made. I wonder if they have ever come back, and given it another shot? Just doesnt seem right to have quit a year or 2 after it was released, and miss out on all that was to come.


I played wc3 with Tillerman, Kain, and Pills, really nice people. Agent never made the switch as far as I know.
Im pretty good at whistling with my hands, especially when Im holding a whistle.
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