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Physician
United States4146 Posts
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It was November 30th 1998 the day it came out. We, or at least I, missed its b-day by a few days. Now StarCraft b-day was April 1st, 1998. How many year has it been since Brood War came out?
8 years!!
And StarCraft will be 9 years in a few month. For a few of us thats a little over 8 years of playing this game. I thought we might as well define today the exact meaning of old school for our community, at least so it means something to those few that can claim it.
Old school is someone that started playing this game from beta or the first year it came out.
Thats it. Final. Of course there are other definitions and we could sit all day and debate whether the next first "few" years qualifies you too as claiming the old school title or whether it is your game style etc.. but I personally will use it and will leave it for those that started playing at ground zero, i.e. beta and the first year.
If the community agrees then we can make it part of StarCraft folklore.
Poll: When did you start playing StarCraft?
(Vote): Ground Zero, beta player.
(Vote): First year, I am old School.
(Vote): PreReplay but not old School.
(Vote): Replay Generation
(Vote): This year! 2006
I have made similar polls before but I decided to divide it in the different generations: ground zero or old School, Pre-Replay, Replay generations. I guess we could even further the Replay generation pre- and post- BWChart but it would get messy and I do not think it had as huge as an impact as replays did.
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i had PLAYED it in the first year it came out but that probably shouldn't count because i didn't actually buy it until a little bit after it came out (around 2000 i think, pre-replay)
then again I never even got into the 1v1 melee aspect of starcraft until even later, 2003-04 maybe
hell did i even get broodwar until 2002-03
possibly not >_>
btw i like your definition of true old-school, it fits well
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
God bless that wonderful day. I bought the game ONLY because I saw the Ultralisk on the back of the box. Same reason I got into War Hammer 40,000 (Carnifex/Hive Tyrant).
Wonderful game that I can honestly say has been enjoyable despite devouring my life for 9 years.
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
Of note. I am not old school myself. I started in 1999 - pre-replay generation. I wish though I had been there at ground zero. Anyway Happy B-day Brood War!
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I started playing online about when XellOs was in the WCG, so I guess I am from the replay generation. I remember when I didn't have a copy of SC so I downloaded the demo and battled it out on that preset map, with Terran being the only avaliable race. The strat that worked best for me was tank/turreting their cliff and mow down their base. 
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2001 online
single player only before
so replay generation? or when did replays start?
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I played it the first time the same year it came out. First singleplayer at a friends place and thought it seem horrible. Then I played a lot of Brood War on a LAN cafe with friends. Didn't buy the game until a bit later tho, because I had no computer to play it on at home.
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
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Prerep, but that consisted of playing vs the comp with cheats In 2004 started to play online and seriously.
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
played the demo at first.. dont even remember when that was ><
i remember i kept playing the demo campaign over and over, with cheats, using mass vultures and rines and bats to kill the zerg comp's base lol
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I'm old school, Used to play it in LAN wit friends all the time.. we were a whole bunch of little noobs 
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
Started sometime in summer 1998, but only in the permanently installed LAN of my boarding school...
At first I hated how people were suddenly starting to play SC, because I was more into Age of Empires 1 at the time and wanted to play it instead. Standing behind the back of a friend watching him play SC I didn't understand shit, it looked very confusing to me. Since everyone else was playing it, I was kind of forced to play as well and so I did. Interesting to see how a game I didn't like at first became to be the main reason for my "online life" or whatever you may call it.
So, like I said, started maybe 2 months after the release, but at first only LAN. I think I played my first couple of online games in early 1999, but I'm not sure.
I also still remember playing with that leaked patch, which introduced replays
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I started 3-4 years ago 1.10 patch,replay generation.
Happy bday SC
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I think I've played first games in 1998 on lan with friends, started online in 1999 when we got internet. 2 green with 64k speed.
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I started playing after patch 1.08 came out.
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Such a nostalgic feelings, I have started with 1.0 Starcraft when I was like 11. I have been playing 8player FFa with computers all the time for many many times, I spent like 200 hours ffing with comps, it was such a joy -_-
Than two or so years later in 1.04 I have started to play LAN 3v3's at internet cafe, later at high school, it was even better joy. later I used to play UMS stuff on 99% hacker server Ender...
And than I returned to bw two years ago in the replay era when I started to play 1v1's, found online friends and fell down to adoring the progaming scene and watch replays like a crazy man
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I was playing TA a lot at the time, and going from TA to anything was hard.
But my Quake buddies kept playing SC and finally I tried some good multi games and TA was mostly a goner. I remember a pentium pro was required for smooth SC 3v3 on lans, P133 lagged just a little
This was back at college, and we had an almost illegal amount of fun. I managed to study at the same time, many did not. TA/SC was a great way to relax after our way too serious quake matches (Carnage Clan for those old enough to remember)
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replay generation. late 2001.
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I got it in December of '98 for Christmas. I literally only played vs comps, UMS, or just fastest maps for 2 years. I took a break for a couple years, then started playing on and off. Started to 1v1 probably only a year and a half to two years ago.
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