first 2 1on1s were against a good friend of mine, who I used to beat horribly on LAN.
It was november 98 and he was playing on bnet for 2 months already
2x ZvP, 2x killed by a zealot rush x_X

Red_Dragon

Croatia2862 Posts

May 15 2006 16:09 GMT

#22

Broodwar, game was on lost temple. I was protoss @ 6, and I start with forge cannon build. Opponent was zerg @ 12. He scouted my base, and I didn`t even know where he is for the whole game. He didn`t attack in a long time. I have been making carriers, I had 3+ of them and I thought to myself I am going to own this sucker. He attacked me with maybe 12 hidras (to see what am I doing), I beat them all. Then he gave me shared view and what I saw was *_*. He ate the whole map, and I could see infinite waves of hydras coming to my base. I could defend for a very shot time, and then he overran me.

Caution

2059 Posts

May 15 2006 16:14 GMT

#23

I remeber my first game on b.net, it was a 3 man ffa on The Hunters. I was T other guy was T dunno what the other dude was, but it was SO FUCKING LAGGY Fucking 56k. Horrible, just horrible.

I swear the bastards teamed up on me ):

ChApFoU

France2984 Posts

May 15 2006 16:23 GMT

#24

it was late 2000 , I barely knew how to ally ^_^ I went 4 rax mmf on shared bases XD

b_unnies

3579 Posts

May 15 2006 16:26 GMT

#25

im surprised how so many of u are that good in the 1st bnet/lan games u guys played

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17741 Posts

May 15 2006 16:39 GMT

#26

It was on some map either challenger or rivalry. Pubby on east. It was against a game called Fothermucker.inc. I just went only marines whole game and spent 10 minutes looking for him. I attacked his base cause he just made hatcheries. MY FIRST VICTORY. After that i only used marines thinking we had some bond.

distant_voice

Germany2521 Posts

May 15 2006 16:52 GMT

#27

in my first game, a TvT on LT I scouted a wall-in and was like: whoa, why does this guy build his buildings up front? wtf, I can't get past them!?

then, some minutes later I was stomped. after that I downloaded some replays of better players and got my hands on that famous game on New No Way Out, I think it's Smuft vs NTT. After watching that I saw broodwar in a whole different light.

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17741 Posts

May 15 2006 16:54 GMT

#28

On May 16 2006 01:52 distant_voice wrote:
in my first game, a TvT on LT I scouted a wall-in and was like: whoa, why does this guy build his buildings up front? wtf, I can't get past them!?

then, some minutes later I was stomped. after that I downloaded some replays of better players and got my hands on that famous game on New No Way Out, I think it's Smuft vs NTT. After watching that I saw broodwar in a whole different light.

lucky it took me more than a year to find out about the good stuff

distant_voice

Germany2521 Posts

May 15 2006 17:00 GMT

#29

oh, that wasn't really my very first game. it was my first on bnet though and the first after 3 years.

my very first game was over a direct connection on Starcraft Shareware. Neither I nor my friend had an idea how the game worked. So after some skirmishes he went BC and I figured Goliaths would be a nice counter, so I just massed about 20 or so. I don't even remember who won that fight, I'd assume it was me though. anyway, after that we went back to C&C Red Alert.

Day[9]

United States7366 Posts

May 15 2006 17:02 GMT

#30

in my first game i was so nervous i could hardly stand it

i was playing a 3 person FFA, but the other 2 guys allied and 4 pooled me to win : [

it was a sucky game

8882

2730 Posts

May 15 2006 19:11 GMT

#31

zvz on challenger

I won
I remember that I expanded to the islands, I made mutas, he made hydras and nearly killed my main, but I had islands!

GTR

51599 Posts

May 15 2006 19:13 GMT

#32

..... mid of 1998, hosted a 2v1 comp stomp on blood bath, made the game, went mass valkyaries, then the other guy left the game. So then since I couldn't win, I left the game also.

Overlord

Romania651 Posts

May 15 2006 19:29 GMT

#33

It was in the 1.07 days on the FSGS server. 2v2 with 4z on Lost Temple. The other 3 guys were pretty decent, so they went ling then muta. I was so confused, I didn't understand why doesn't my ally build some static defense

I remember m being at 3 and my ally at 6, and I build a bunch of sunkens until I extended the creep to my ramp. When I saw they are finishing my ally with mutas, I didn't understand why isn't he making hydras. I finished up with 5 hydras fightinh vs 20 mutas

In the end i was surprised how I had three times less points than the other three guys :D

But the good days came, with 1.08alpha leaked, on lurker.broodwar.com server. I think the level was pretty high there. My favourite sc site was scnation.com by then - from where i found a link to Tsunami's strategy site. I remember, there was a guy on that server with the nick "ThaWoofer!" or something like that, who played terran, and beat everyone. He had a decent knowledge of the game, using spider mines vs toss, and mmf vs zerg. I think he probably was a lot faster than most of us. Any idea who could he be?

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

May 15 2006 19:30 GMT

#34

We didn't play on net when I first got it mostly direct cable and single player, so my first game's with brother weren't that bad considering we finihsed terran campagin. (We didn't fight for expands thiygh and i always had less and lost by running out of money :S)

Dreamer]

Sweden358 Posts

May 15 2006 19:44 GMT

#35

hhmm back in anchient history Robin (me) got his first RTS-game and my answere was what is RTS.. never mind i started to play but I didn´t get anything were you suposed to attack only???
ofcourse the protoss were the race for me since they started with more combat units (ignored incoming messages like "Gather minerals to be able to construct more units!!"

later i discovered the build buttom and then my world was turned around. 6-8 years later of on/off gaming i played my first game on internet in a 3vs3 and got mean alot of zealots coming against my zerg base....

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

May 15 2006 20:00 GMT

#36

Hmm, my first game.. I can't remember if it was a) Me opening 1 gate forge on LT and getting raped or b) me + a friend playing 2:2 on bgh both toss, both mass zealot into carrier, winning

Both games on vanilla SC, no BW, in about 2001 :D

Played a ton of bgh -> fastest -> hunters before I had to quit as my cd broke down :/ Returned to play BW in mid 2002 and somehow I think I met up with some guy who I'd met while playing vanilla and whom since had been to korea and yeah, let's just say he opened my eyes :D

Ah, good times - playing nonstop public games (joined whatever said 1:1+korean name).. I was fortunate enough to somehow meet a 1400 gamei guy there, who taught me everything (ie make lots of gateways, do this do that).. Ah, and I had downloaded a bazillion replays from yaoyuan.. Probably had every PvZ that was on their site back then :D

Dunno what he's doing now, but he was a manga artist I remember, emailed me one of his comics.

Also saved pretty much every single game I played back then - but I lost them when I formatted the computer (forgot I had them there, my sister needed the comp so we formatted it and yeah :< Although as I recall I did save a lot of them before that, and put them somewhere ;p).

Then I met some 1500~1600 gamei guys who taught me even more, still know one of these guys, one of the other two are in the army and the 3rd I dunno.

Brood war was so cool back then -.-

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

May 15 2006 20:01 GMT

#37

It was a TvT on some random blizzard map I played vs my friend who had played a few games before I had. I built like 20 firebats and attacked his 6 or so tanks. It was kinda funny. That was my first game on Modem to Modem. Then my first games on bnet were probably 4 pools on bloodbath

haduken

Australia8267 Posts

May 15 2006 20:22 GMT

#38

my first game was specially bittersweet because i had to try 20+ different cd keys lol.
nevertheless i lost.

Pat

Canada721 Posts

May 15 2006 20:30 GMT

#39

Before b.net, I always played lan with friends. My friend who showed me the game told me to put one drone per mineral (yeah right...).

Then I came to b.net and joined a random game and it was a money map. You can imagine how I got raped >_< When I tried to attack one of the opponent (was a 2v2) I almost fell of my chair when I saw those 0384534820 gateways and all those units... then I though to myself: "ok, I got to learn the game more but wtf is this, it is not meant to be played that way..."

hasuwar

7365 Posts

May 15 2006 20:49 GMT

#40

oh yeah, I remember it..it was me and a friend, our first time on bnet. I think we picked out the name drunkenretard or something insanely stupid. Don't know the map, but we started at 7, he started at 1. We ended up just building crap, and seeing what buildings needed what requirements, and I distinctly remember saying "Man, faster zealot speed? that's it? what a waste". I think we were mostly on defense, we had a few cannons here and there, and we eventually died to carriers, which made us "holy shit, what the hell are those" as they destroyed us. Dunno if I'll ever forget that game