I got my hands on SC in late March of '98. Maybe it was early April. But I got it for my b-day present so it was one of them.

I've played the game at least once every 6 months after then but not competitively at all. I didn't even keep up with the progaming scene until 2 years ago.

So technically I am old school I guess

Excalibur_Z

United States12235 Posts

December 12 2006 00:30 GMT

#43

Got SC Sophomore year in high school and played it very rarely (only LAN/modem games with friends and cheats in single player campaign), then BW came out and we had a pirate friend that owned a CD-burner who copied CDs for our whole group. We played on Bnet a few times, and I tried playing against some people at school and finding more people at school that had the game. I tried logging into Bnet a few times to play Ladder and check out the high level scene (which at the time was nohunters), even running my own tournament. It was all about BattleReports.com where all the best battle reports by Heartcutter, YourRoleModel, and DoomDragon resided, and strategy was discussed there in great detail with a knowledge base far superior to the B.net forums where I had been visiting in my off-time. Around this time I found out xeno117 played BW a fair amount but never on Bnet, so we started doing 2v2s on standard, non-money maps. I remember there was a leaked Beta patch called 1.08O that had a replay function, and everyone thought it was going to be the end of high-level play and introduce copycats (which it did to some extent). My very last game in 1.07 was a 2v2 against Terran_Turtle which was so close we wished replays existed at the time, and it was such a long game we got disconnected from Bnet, and when we logged back in the patch began autodownloading. xeno and I were LANning at the time and our eyes got big and we looked at each other and said "ONE OH EIGHT???!!!!" the patch that seemed like it would never arrive. We played very often after 1.08 came out and it's been off-and-on since about last year. Old school.

iD.NicKy

France767 Posts

December 12 2006 00:42 GMT

#44

1.07 / 1.08

j0ehoe

United States2705 Posts

December 12 2006 00:47 GMT

#45

i started playing a little after it came out at my friends house. his description was warcraft in space, so i was like what the hell. the first thing he showed me was a carrier when he was in the middle of a game and i was just like WOW OMG. i still remember getting raped in my first game in one of those no-rush games, with about 4 reavers getting dropped 10 min in -_-. then i realized protoss is for gays and switched to zerg.
i think i got myself a copy right when bw came out. i never played bw til like 01 for some reason tho =p.

mnm

United States4493 Posts

December 12 2006 00:47 GMT

#46

http://www.mobygames.com/game/starcraft/release-info

Apr 23, 1998 - 1.01 patch
Aug 24, 1998 - 1.02 patch
Oct 14, 1998 - 1.03 patch
Dec 17, 1998 - 1.04 patch
Mar 15, 1999 - 1.05 patch
Sep 30, 1999 - 1.06 patch
May 22, 2001 - 1.08b patch
Feb 07, 2002 - 1.09 patch
Feb 27, 2002 - 1.09b patch
Apr 01, 2003 - 1.10 patch
Apr 28, 2004 - 1.11 patch
Jun 01, 2004 - 1.11b patch
Feb 16, 2005 - 1.12 patch (new features, updated maps and bug fixes)
Jun 29, 2005 - 1.13 patch
Aug 12, 2005 - 1.13b patch
Aug 22, 2005 - 1.13c patch
Sep 06, 2005 - 1.13d patch
Sep 12, 2005 - 1.13e patch
Jan 18, 2006 - 1.13f patch
Aug 01, 2006 - 1.14 patch (implements ladder, chat and other feature changes, over a dozen bug fixes, and a series of exploit repairs)

Pumpkin

United States1141 Posts

December 12 2006 00:48 GMT

#47

Still have my Starcraft 1.0 disc, and it's actually got next to zero scratches on it. I bought it the week it came out in 5th grade and I've never looked back :p

ROOTheognis

United States4482 Posts

December 12 2006 00:48 GMT

#48

Replay generation, 2003

ZaplinG

United States3818 Posts

December 12 2006 00:50 GMT

#49

I can remember going to school, swappin diablo/war2 stories with my buddies and having a good time...

...and then one day a friend came to school with talk of warcraft in space with aliens bugs and humans. He tried to share stories but I distictly remember saying to myself "man, that game sounds like trash. There is no way you can have interesting stories about it, be quiet".

Little did I know that I was about to encounter the game that would stick with me for (almost) 9 years.

Hurray for being oldschool.

(man, I must have started when I was like 10 years old... its crazy to think of it like that)

SCNewb

Canada2210 Posts

December 12 2006 00:56 GMT

#50

I started playing a few days after it came out

Long live SC!

Luhh

Sweden2974 Posts

December 12 2006 01:17 GMT

#51

Before they released it. A friend of mine was a beta tester. So there! Pwnt! That makes it like 9 years ago I guess.. Oh dear..

BluzMan

Russian Federation4235 Posts

December 12 2006 01:21 GMT

#52

Pre-Replay, actually was playing since the first year, but not online. Much later had two PvZ games versus my classmate (my first 1v1s lol) where I maelstormed and statised his 12/12 guards/devourers and won the game. Then I thought I was torribly good and went to Bnet, where got muta-raped in my first game. That's how it started... Then there came that brilliant leaked patch with replays and 200/200 lurkers =)))

PaeZ

Mexico1627 Posts

December 12 2006 01:23 GMT

#53

2002 , wonderful year a friend introduced the game to me and afterwards i bought it, but i started playing in Bnet in 2003 when i got an original copy xD (first one was ilegal)

Physician

United States4146 Posts

December 12 2006 01:43 GMT

#54

Can anyone photoshop something up to commemorate the occasion? I would but the results will be not too pretty.

iCCup.Trent

Argentina450 Posts

December 12 2006 01:49 GMT

#55

Replay Generation :D 1.09

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

December 12 2006 02:13 GMT

#56

I've been playing since I was 10 years old ... 19 now. Been playing bnet since I was 11. Started low money , temple and shit when I was 11 and a half.

fig_newbie

749 Posts

December 12 2006 02:18 GMT

#57

I started playing 1998 and I hated it...I was pissed they didnt make a wc3 instead. but it grew on me :D.

Some memories:
Zealots would rape my marines (1>3, what is micro?)
Using Stim scared me (10 hp loss wtf?)
Mass bunkers ftw
Offensive sunkens ftl
Being too timid to play on bnet, and having the fears confirmed after being stomped by some Kali bm asswipes (anyone remember them? I think they ended up making a channel called "clan x17")
Vultures/zerglings(except for rushing, convenient in "5 min no rush" games)/defilers/sciencevessels/goliaths/ultras sucking hard. Surprisingly, queens didn't.
Reavers = iddqd
Archon vs Ultra debates
BC vs Carrier debates
Dropships being RIDICULOUSLY slow -_-;;
4 pools being a very powerful opening (150 mins)
Walling in with supply depots...only to have to break it to move out

*sniff*...nostalgia...