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SC20: StarCraft Turns 20!

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hexhaven
Profile Joined July 2014
Finland960 Posts
March 05 2018 10:20 GMT
#1
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StarCraft turns 20 years old!

There's a whole bunch of stuff coming in March, including a special anniversary stream on March 30th, new content for other Blizzard games, a video feature called StarCraft Is Life: A Celebration (whether it will feature Life remains to be seen), and new skins and portraits and decals in StarCraft 2.



The celebrations officially begin on March 6th, which is tomorrow!

Log in to StarCraft: Remastered after March 6 to receive a commemorative 20th Anniversary UI Skin for StarCraft: Remastered.


Log in to StarCraft II after March 6 to receive a special UI Skin for each race. Additionally, log in between March 6 and April 3 to receive a Portrait and Decal.



See more details here:
https://starcraft2.com/en-gb/sc20

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Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
March 05 2018 10:40 GMT
#2
It's been a helluva ride
pieroog
Profile Joined June 2010
Poland146 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-03-05 10:49:00
March 05 2018 10:45 GMT
#3
To this day I remember the amazement that was brought by first minutes of StarCraft's demo that was run on my old Pentium 133MHz. 20 yrs ago, damn!

-- EDIT: typo
angrypofke
Profile Joined March 2017
Lithuania174 Posts
March 05 2018 10:56 GMT
#4
On March 05 2018 19:45 pieroog wrote:
To this day I remember the amazement that was brought by first minutes of StarCraft's demo that was run on my old Pentium 133MHz. 20 yrs ago, damn!

-- EDIT: typo


Pentium? You had it good....
I had 486 with 133mhz. Starcraft lagged for me lol
[F_]aths
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany3947 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-03-05 11:04:28
March 05 2018 11:03 GMT
#5
OMG.

I remember playing some Starcraft, though mostly single-player, before Broodware came out. Just a couple matches in multiplayer (LAN) before Broodwar though.

I thought first, yeah, after WARcaft and the success of the movie Starship Troopers we now get STARcraft. How not imaginative ...

... though I liked the campaign when I got to the zerg. Organic, vile, swarmy. YESSS!
You don't choose to play zerg. The zerg choose you.
nukkuj
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Finland403 Posts
March 05 2018 11:36 GMT
#6
20 years feels like an eternity, holy shit. I still remember playing Starcraft for the first time at my friend's place and trying to complete those campaign missions. :D
Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
March 05 2018 16:02 GMT
#7
Wow, what a run it has been
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
WGT-Baal
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
France3436 Posts
March 05 2018 16:05 GMT
#8
Happy 20th birthday!
Crazy how time flies, i still remember my first games, being completely clueless about everything but still having fun and going for zerg.
Then bw came and i fell in love with dts and went P. Still feels like yesterday
Horang2 fan
rotta
Profile Joined December 2011
5598 Posts
March 05 2018 16:11 GMT
#9


We've come a long way!

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don't wall off against random
CaptainBurnTurn
Profile Joined February 2018
United States80 Posts
March 05 2018 16:30 GMT
#10
I remember not being very good at the game, I would mass carriers on the easiest difficulty and I thought I was a pro.
Mark my words, sOs will win a GSL one day
Libb75
Profile Joined October 2016
10 Posts
March 05 2018 19:22 GMT
#11
Started to play SC as a student 20 years ago and the game was with me allmost half of my life. Now my 6yo son is standing next to me, watching the game, knowing all the characters and wishing he can handle to play soon. Starcraft floats through the time. Best game ever and nothing will ever change it.
DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
March 05 2018 19:41 GMT
#12
The best game ever is Starcraft II.
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virpi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany3599 Posts
March 05 2018 19:56 GMT
#13
Starcraft has done so much for me. I've played BW and SC2 a lot, met some awesome people, made some friends and had tons of fun. All thanks to one (two) game(s). Even though I'm not as interested in the game as I've been a few years ago, I'm still coming back to this site to watch tournaments and read random threads. Starcraft is the only game to have a real impact on my real life.
first we make expand, then we defense it.
Redcloak
Profile Joined December 2002
United States530 Posts
March 05 2018 21:15 GMT
#14
On March 06 2018 04:56 virpi wrote:
Starcraft has done so much for me. I've played BW and SC2 a lot, met some awesome people, made some friends and had tons of fun. All thanks to one (two) game(s). Even though I'm not as interested in the game as I've been a few years ago, I'm still coming back to this site to watch tournaments and read random threads. Starcraft is the only game to have a real impact on my real life.

You got to meet awesome people? I got ripped off!!!

In all seriousness, StarCraft the game was great, but it was the community of people that would help to define the person I've become. The... old person... I've become apparently .

PS - I'm glad to see this whole TeamLiquid thing has worked out.
Just Some Old Man
Mistakes
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1102 Posts
March 05 2018 23:45 GMT
#15
On March 05 2018 19:56 angrypofke wrote:
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On March 05 2018 19:45 pieroog wrote:
To this day I remember the amazement that was brought by first minutes of StarCraft's demo that was run on my old Pentium 133MHz. 20 yrs ago, damn!

-- EDIT: typo


Pentium? You had it good....
I had 486 with 133mhz. Starcraft lagged for me lol


233MHz PowerPC 750 on my iMac G3 boyyyyy. Haha. Good ol days.
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waiting2Bbanned
Profile Joined November 2015
United States154 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-03-05 23:54:12
March 05 2018 23:52 GMT
#16
Starcraft made me and my cousin get our first ever jobs. Broke college freshmen, got to work night-shift admins at internet cafe so we can LAN with all our friends. After all-nighters, the owner would come to open in the morning and we'd be passed out, face on the keyboard. He'd wake us up, give us coffee and send us to class

..gawd I'm old..
"If you are going to break the law, do it with two thousand people.. and Mozart." - Howard Zinn
Rehio
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1718 Posts
March 06 2018 00:15 GMT
#17
I've got my original Starcraft CD pinned to the wall next to my Starcraft pro signature stuff. I've loved this game since I was eight, and I'm never stoppin'. :D

Looking forward to this "event." It's just going to be a month of being reminded of good Starcraft memories.
Trozz
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3456 Posts
March 06 2018 02:33 GMT
#18
20 years later,
It's still my #1 game.
Nothing can top it.
A build is not a guess, an estimation or a hunch, a feeling, or a foolish intuition. A build is a dependable, unwavering, unarguably accurate, portrayer of your ambition.
jedi1982
Profile Joined January 2011
United States172 Posts
March 06 2018 04:14 GMT
#19
First memory of playing original SC was b.net and asking people, what do these red bars mean and why is everyone talking about this "lag?" What is "lag"?! lol
JieXian
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Malaysia4677 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-03-06 04:29:12
March 06 2018 04:22 GMT
#20
How old am I?

I still recall being super excited at playing BNet and direct cable connection for the first time after having only played vs the AI.

In my first game on BNet I 4pooled some guy and when I reached his base he already had 4 zealots lined up (unrallied) outside his gateway. For ages I was convinced that the Koreans were that much better than us humans hahaha I couldn't join any other games because of the terrible lag.

And my then 12 year old brother would beat our uncle by just using zealots and no other tech hahahahaha. For some reason my brother figured out by himself that he should be making probes non-stop back then. Years later we found that my uncle had a stash of BW guides in his house hahahaha.

In a 2v2 bnet game my then 12 year old brother got eliminated and float his only surviving building to his ally's base and typed "I'll help you with wraiths" .... and then realise that he had no supply depots (or scvs) hahahahaha. His ally proceeded to win the game 1v2.

We had like 60 apm back then.

My old bones ache.

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