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How did you find out about Starcraft?

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zeratultassadar
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Australia30 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-11 00:06:26
May 11 2010 00:00 GMT
#1
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...

*
PanoRaMa
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States5069 Posts
May 11 2010 00:11 GMT
#2
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.
FaCE_1
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada6166 Posts
May 11 2010 00:22 GMT
#3
was playing AoE:II a lot and was looking for a similar game.
n_n
Squeegy
Profile Joined October 2009
Finland1166 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-11 00:26:20
May 11 2010 00:25 GMT
#4
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.
Stan: Dude, dolphins are intelligent and friendly. Cartman: Intelligent and friendly on rye bread with some mayonnaise.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9756 Posts
May 11 2010 00:28 GMT
#5
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.
boomer hands
Enki
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2548 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-11 01:01:31
May 11 2010 00:30 GMT
#6
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.
"Practice, practice, practice. And when you're not practicing you should be practicing. It's the only way to get better. The only way." I run the Smix Fanclub!
bearbuddy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3442 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-11 00:33:34
May 11 2010 00:32 GMT
#7
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.
supernovamaniac
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States3046 Posts
May 11 2010 00:37 GMT
#8
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.
ppp
eXigent.
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada2419 Posts
May 11 2010 00:38 GMT
#9
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?)
dan_dark
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Peru127 Posts
May 11 2010 00:44 GMT
#10
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 )
BW will never die
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-11 00:52:42
May 11 2010 00:52 GMT
#11
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
May 11 2010 00:52 GMT
#12
was just at a store and thought the battle chest looked cool so i bought it
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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demonic_phate
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States442 Posts
May 11 2010 00:53 GMT
#13
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
BusyP
Kingfisher
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada144 Posts
May 11 2010 00:57 GMT
#14
My dad gave it to me.
I'm Korean...;;
Kerotan
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
England2109 Posts
May 11 2010 00:57 GMT
#15
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.
Nerdette // External revolution - Internal revolution // Fabulous // I raise my hands to heaven of curiosity // I don't know what to ask for // What has it got for me? // Kerribear
Folca
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
2235 Posts
May 11 2010 00:58 GMT
#16
On May 11 2010 09:57 Kingfisher wrote:
I'm Korean

Dea : one time when he was playing vs the comps he asked me "how do I make that flying unit that makes the other stuff invisible" and I reply "ur playing terran zomg"
KingV
Profile Joined April 2009
United States97 Posts
May 11 2010 01:05 GMT
#17
My cousins showed me the game, and still to do this day, they rape me everytime...
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment"
Lightwip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5497 Posts
May 11 2010 01:12 GMT
#18
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 (T)Flash really has the game figured out. At least, not more so than (Z)sAviOr did.
If you are not Bisu, chances are I hate you.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-11 01:17:53
May 11 2010 01:12 GMT
#19
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.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
dani_caliKorea
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
730 Posts
May 11 2010 01:14 GMT
#20
On May 11 2010 09:58 Folca wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2010 09:57 Kingfisher wrote:
I'm Korean



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