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Being a huge fan of Blizzard, SC1 was highly anticipated as well as SC2 (Warcraft 1/2, and Diablo).
I remember waiting at home for my parents after school who bought 2 copies (1 for my bro and 1 for me). I also remember my cousin calling to inform me that he got his copy as well and going nuts. I then opened it and proceeded to play ladder games immediately non-stop. My first game I did the equivalent to the now 1:1:1 build because I wanted to see all of the units. I originally thought missile turrets could attack ground for some stupid reason and lost because I massed them.
However that was over a decade ago and I'm now killing time at the office instead of grade school. Waiting at work or school, they are both still excruciating knowing the game is so close to being in my hands. Also my cousin now won't even be getting the game... he said it's a waste of time  I tried to remind him how much fun SC1 was but he doesn't care.
As for me I'll be at the midnight release in Toronto. I'm one of the minorities that don't care much for the campaign but will play it eventually. I'll be laddering like mad as soon as I get it at midnight just like when I was a kid.
So where were you and what were you doing as you waited for SC1 and how does it compare to now?
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I was too young to look forward to Starcraft 1. Barely 10 when it was released.
Though I played the demo back then, like a maniac. Got it on some random game magazine... without knowing about the game.
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I wasn't as well versed about the gaming scene back then, I was quite young... 12yrs old. I had been playing a lot of Warcraft 2, and barely heard about Starcraft at all. I didn't end up getting it until a few months after it was released... but after that, I was hooked :D
What actually drew me into the original SC so much was the map editor. I spent TONS of time and was really good with that editor. There is something fun and rewarding about working with such a limited editor and achieving the results you want with little tricks.
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I only started playing rts with wc3 starting around the middle of 2008 but this is my first time every actively anticipating a game release. (Besides, how often does a game thats not a brain dead point and click game get released here anyway  )
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Hahaha thinking back i don't think i even knew the day it came out i was 8 at the time i think, but i got it a few months after it came out and boy was i terrible. feeling a little better about my abilities when i get this game
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There were no midnight releases for Sc1 or BW where i'm from. Anywhere?
I walked into futureshop, and there was a whole shefl full of StarCraft 1997 i think..? I thought, this must be a pretty good game to have so many, so i picked one up.
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I played a wc1 demo from a macworld demo pack cd. When I noticed the WC2 battle chest next time I went to Sam's I couldn't resist; at first I was just playing WC2, but I soon discovered how great Starcraft was, even though I didn't know anything about it at first, partially because I was 9 years old. This was in 1999, and SC has been an interest ever since.(somewhat on the backburner during my WoW years, but still present)
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I was 6....I got it from my aunt from the US....I didn't even ask for it,though I've only been playing seriously since the age of 16.
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I was too young to actually have a clue when it released. All I know is my and my friend loved playing Wc2 over lan. Then one day we got a hold of a demo version of Starcraft, and as soon as we were done playing through it we both went and got ourself a copy. After that it's been SC1 on and off up until now.
Picking up my copy at around 10 am tomorrow, can't wait
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On July 26 2010 23:11 Ichabod wrote:
I played a wc1 demo from a macworld demo pack cd. When I noticed the WC2 battle chest next time I went to Sam's I couldn't resist; at first I was just playing WC2, but I soon discovered how great Starcraft was, even though I didn't know anything about it at first, partially because I was 9 years old. This was in 1999, and SC has been an interest ever since.(somewhat on the backburner during my WoW years, but still present)
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haha wow wc1... i actually played wc1 after playing wc2 to see how it was like. not being able to right-click move was frustrating. and you had to build your structures along a cobble road which was frustrating. played a ton of wc2 on LAN too and over the modem.
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I was too young as well, and let that fly by. Not this time though!
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My cousin introduced the game to me in 1999. I remember hating it at first telling him "this game sucks". Now, whenever we meet, and whenever he tries to get me into another game he always says: "Remember what you said about Starcraft?", quoting my exact words. I have no retort to such verbal ownage...
But then for some reason, despite hating it and after two weeks of abstinence, I began feeling an odd urge to play again. So I begged and pleaded to my parents to buy the game for an entire month (I must've been annoying as hell).
When they finally bought me the game I was the happiest man alive.
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I was super young so the excitement went away as soon as mommy gave me a lollipop or whatever. Honestly I didn't even pre-order or plan on playing until a couple weeks after release because I am out of town on an internship but I have anxiety and can't wait to see the streams pop up again and day[9] tonight!!!
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I got SC1 cause I was bored in a Costco waiting for my parents to buy something and saw this awesome looking box and bought it.
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This will be my first midnight release of anything. I have to keep this raging erection going for another 13 hours. :s
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On July 27 2010 00:00 MangoTango wrote:
This will be my first midnight release of anything. I have to keep this raging erection going for another 13 hours. :s
same, well for a game I have gone to movies before, and Harry Potter
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I remember knowing about SC, but not being really excited about it. I really liked WC2 and all, but to me SC was just warcraft in space at the time. After falling in love with the game immediately after playing it, I've pretty much played it pretty consistently throughout the last 12 years until the SC2 beta went live.
I was 13 around the release, my brother's friend had brought over the game during the first week of release. We spawned a copy and played some stuff on SP before he took the disks away. After about 3 days playing on a spawned copy with him on b.net, we went out and bought the game.
we were sharing an account because we only had one computer at the time. he was working at the local library and I was doing odd jobs around the neighborhood to get some income, like cutting lawns, taking out trash, etc... We eventually got enough money to get a boxed copy and a 2nd phone line, which cost about 10 bucks a month. Our parents would get very agitated when we tied up the phone-line with our dial-up internet connection to play starcraft (which would pretty much be occupied from 3pm to 12am everyday).
When I wasn't playing the game, I was usually just watching my brother play. It was so addicting. I don't think my 7th-grade grades dropped, but I distinctly remember being pre-occupied with the game. It was basically the only thing I thought of for a few months.
Been counting down the release for Starcraft 2 for the last month, and the wait is getting pretty difficult during the last hours. The last title I got undeniably antsy over was HL2. SC1 was a very dear game to me. I am going to miss it very much, but, hell, its about time.
EDIT: so my post doesn't look like ass
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Never really experienced the Starcraft hype back then, was too young. I had heard a lot about it before I eventually got it though.
I didn't get Starcraft until like 2002, when I bought some collector's thing with Diablo, Warcraft 2 and Starcraft/BW. I initially got it because I loved Diablo 2 and wanted to see what the first one was like and I'd had some fun times playing WC2 over LAN with some buddies before. But in the end it was SC that really got me hooked.
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On July 26 2010 23:53 LaLuSh wrote:
My cousin introduced the game to me in 1999. I remember hating it at first telling him "this game sucks". Now, whenever we meet, and whenever he tries to get me into another game he always says: "Remember what you said about Starcraft?", quoting my exact words. I have no retort to such verbal ownage...
But then for some reason, despite hating it and after two weeks of abstinence, I began feeling an odd urge to play again. So I begged and pleaded to my parents to buy the game for an entire month (I must've been annoying as hell).
When they finally bought me the game I was the happiest man alive.
LOL, i told my brother the same thing about Xenogears on the psx. I've never regretted anything like the words I said that day.
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I got StarCraft on day 1 and was really excited to get it since I loved WC2 so much. Now I'm at a totally new level of excitement however lol
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