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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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