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On September 23 2009 22:02 LordWeird wrote:
I was a veteran WC2 player and so were my friends. I had a rich friend who always got the new games before I did.
During new years 98->99, I went over to his house and he was playing it (SC Vanilla). It was one of the Terran missions... the one where they introduce wraiths and dropships. I stared in awe at the screen. It was literally the most awesome thing I had ever seen. The colors, the shapes, the sounds (especially the SCVs mining, I love that sound for some reason) entranced me.
Ever since then I have been addicted.
The vultures is what got me. Once it was affordable(34.99 i believe) my friend bought it and it wasn't even about two months after till I got it. My bitch ass friend wouldn't ever let me play either, only to watch in ooww and learn hot keys observing. Now that I think of it he only played with terran LOL.
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I had just recently obtained a computer and had moved from the poor part of a town to a much more privileged part of town. Start over, new friends, etc
So one kid who was my neighbor, he said he just burned this really cool game off of his friend and wanted to show it to me. So he brought it to my house and it was vanilla SC(didnt get broodwar for quite a while, didnt even know it existed) After doing the first couple levels of protoss campaign I instantly knew that computer games would soon take over consoles for me(havent touched a console in years), but I still had aol dial-up on my new cpu so I didnt go online much since it was so terrible. When he goes to leave, i ask him if i can burrow the game for the week while he is away on vacation. So I play it for a week and I am amazed by how fun this game is, never seen anything like it.
so he comes back after a week and picks it back up and I forget about it after a while, playing games like runescape(lol) cause a bunch of friends in whatever grade I was in would all play it together. Then randomly years later I am in a gamestop. I see the starcraft battlechest, and Im like holy shit, thats the game from all those years back(and it has an expansion!?) so I buy it and take it back home and get on b.net immediately as I've already done the 1 player shit.
Then I played fastest/micro clutter oops.
eventually I would be sorted out by the awesome channel on US-east "op bwchat" evil(v)agiclord anybody? and was taught the beauty of low-money blizzard maps.
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"battlecruiser operational."
I was hooked.
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I read about SC in a games magazine, where it was reviewed at 90/100. I bought it, played some missions and some melee against the computer. I had no internet back then, so that was about it. Fast forward 10 years. I somehow started reading Gosugamers and watched some replays. Later I found Teamliquid with its wonderful VODs. Watching the pros prompted me to start playing Starcraft myself again. First in LANs with one or two friend against computers. Then 1v1 in LAN, where I was the best of us three. The highlight was me beating them when they shared control in the team melee mode, but I only won once before they learned how to abuse their advantages.
Then finally 3 seasons ago we tried out luck online and joined ICCup, where we got our asses handed to us of course (although I haven't lost a 1v1 against a D- player ever!). It has gotten a bit better since then, we managed D+ in 2v2 twice. About once a week, we meet at my friend's place, grab a beer, play some 2v2 online, then watch a VOD or two. Nerd partay! 
Just last Sunday I invited another friend to join us. Poor fellow hasn't played an RTS since Red Alert and struggles with the right-click interface. Anyway, he has promised to learn the game and train until he can beat a computer 
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~ 1997 : 4 pooled every game on BNet, kept losing because they had 4 zealots when i reached.
2v2ed once, had a pro protoss teammate on hunters who could take on the other 2 while my brother got owned. i still remember him typing in allied chat after his entire base was gone and floated his starport into his allies' base.
"I support you with wraiths" But he was 0/0 on supply -.-
My uncle kept losing to my brother, who was about 10+ then (shame on him), on bgh. My brother did the same zealot rushes every time. Surprisingly, he knew even then to never stop building probes and adding gateways, which was his secret to victory he can get up to 7 gateways on one bgh base and it never got more since the game always ends by then.
My uncle was the same guy who plays with his friend on hunters and his zerg friend had all the other 7 mains while he was terran. The next game, they switched and his friend had ghosts running in his zerg base hahaha.
Many years later, after my uncle graduated and moved out, we went there one day and discovered his dirty secret -- He actually downloaded a strategy guide in his futile desperation to win a boy 10 years younger than him. I took it home and read it over and over. That was before i was rescued my TLnet.
Thinking over, the guide that was supposed to help him clearly couldn't . . .
Anyways, those were really great days, i didnt know anything but fooling around in BNet was really fun, especially playing with my brother and uncle (who'd only play with me because he needed to win some games at least after losing so much to me bro). Because my bro refused to play RTS games after losing to my Human in WC3 with 2 base NE with mass bears. I was overwhelmed totally, but i had MK stomp + blizzard and won because i let him to the back of my base and he took blizzard fire.
Since then, all RTSes were too hard and stressful for him. After managing to persuade him to play SC but he once again gave up after a game where he destroyed my entire terran base with ultra ling because i went nuke rush, but i won after floating to an expansion and walling it off with facts and mines and erasered his ultralings.
He ended up falling into the depths of WoW never climbing out, with the exception of a little DotA, sadly.
Sorry for giving my entire history of the game and my family but . . . it's all related to my first day playing over IPX cables and subsequently, sleeping at 7 am for the first time at ~8 years old playing BNet. I've always looked forward to going to my grandmother's house back then to play.
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1998, my dad came home with a new pc game for me and my brother.( still playing on that copy ) We called it the sequel of Wc2( which we had been playing alot) except now it's in space! My older brother ofc starts to play it first while me and my dad watched him play. We all enjoyed the game and decided to play against eachother. I played alot against my dad cause my brother was just so lame >_< So after some IPX gaming I had started to love some certain things about it.
1. The music, mainly the Terran music.
2. Unit sounds, i loved the SCV's but totally thought Goliaths were the coolest. "Goliath Online" "Systems functional" "Acknowledged HQ" wow, i builded goliaths every game...
3. Siege Tanks, so awesome. Just blowed things up!
So you can already guess what my favourite race was, which i am playing even today. I did not start to play on bnet before around 2003. But still today i havent taken starcraft that seriously. I am still only like C- skilled. I'm mostly enjoying the korean starcraft scene.
But it feels good to experience what i did in '98.
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~ 1997 : 4 pooled every game on BNet, kept losing because they had 4 zealots when i reached.
SEVERAL parts of this statement do not add up.
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I believe I was.. 7 or 8, in the year 2002, I saw my brother playing it and I was like.... Shiny O.o...
Borrowed it for my brother and played it for almost everyday nearly a year with my friends.. Good times ^^ Only resently did I learn about the proscene.. I think it was march this year..
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hahaha first time I played starcraft, was introduced to us by our uncle! then got hooked up and started using computers 12 zeal rush BO!
And I kept getting owned by fucking 4 pool rushes! Also, we liked playing BGH since money is unlimited. Man I remember a retarded mod of SC, it was called pokemon craft and gundam craft I think? LMAO! Blizzard rules man!
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Back in 98, when i were around 6, I was messing around by my brothers computer, looking for games! I found the Starcraft cd and I was like "wow, i wanna try this!" so I put the cd in the computer and started playing the campaign.
I played ultra safe, wouldnt leave my base without 200/200 ultras, carriers or ultras :D.
When I finally managed to beat the campaign I left the game.
Few years after i discovered there was an exp! I didn't pick it up though.
Years passed and i got through the WoW noob phase, and started playing WC3 casually, then I saw "boxors perfect scv rush" on youtube. I then got to know of the SC progaming scene, I got hooked, and here I am today :d
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I was there, when it came out.
Back in the day
and if you weren´t there
it doesn´t matter anyway
because you wouldn´t understand.
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Six or seven years ago was the first time I picked up Starcraft and I was a 6th grader at the time. I bought the game after being bored as hell at Costco and I saw the Starcraft Battle Chest in the computer section of the store. For the bargain price 20 bucks you got Starcraft, Broodwar, and two Prima strategy guides. After installing the game I tried the first Terran mission of the campaign and quickly got bored. I then realized that the game could be connected to the internet (I think this was my second online game) so I made an account on USA east and logged on. I clicked the Join Game icon and saw a 1v1v1 Lost Temple and joined that. To my surprise, I saw three races, Terran, Zerg, and Protoss. I had only played with Terran before, but out of curiosity I clicked Zerg.
The results of the game should not be surprising. After the game starts, it takes me around ten seconds before I put my drones on minerals. Instead of building additional drones, I save my minerals to build an Overlord because I think it will be a cool and deadly flying unit. About four minutes in I read the chat to see one of the players type, "Wow, I'm dead. GG." I figured this was not a good sign, and I started making more overlords to defend my base. No less than two minutes pass before 20 zerglings have breached my ramp and I'm sitting there with no fighting units. Little does my opponent know that I'm right clicking all his zerglings with my overlords to no avail. I keep thinking that Overlords are stupid, retarded units for not auto-firing at the zerglings. I type, "I am new to this game." so that I may feel better about my loss. My opponent types, "Your really bad." I then proceed to get eliminated and I reflect on my humiliating defeat. Naturally this was a brutal wake up call to the competitive world of online Starcraft so I stop for the day.
The next day at school I talk to my classmate Victor. Victor is the kid who told me about Starcraft. He told me it was a man's game and that it required skill to play unlike Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings, the RTS I played the most before that. I walk up to Victor, tell him I bought Starcraft, and ask him how do I stop zerglings. He looks at me with a dumbfounded look in his eyes and says bluntly "Make units."
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Kau
Canada3500 Posts
My uncle was the one who hooked me and my brother up with sc (when I was in grade 6). This was probably the first real computer game we played. We played through the campaign using cheats (mostly breathe deep and operation cwal, so I never built refineries haha) because we didn't have internet yet. Haha the campaign was so difficult even with the cheats.
Don't think we got internet til I was in grade 8 or 9, where my first game was on some sort of fastest map. It wasn't the kind where all the minerals were stacked in one place (I guess they didn't know how to do that yet), but there were 8 patches really close to the Hatchery and a bunch more standard distance away. It was a 2v2, my ally was P, I was Z, and we were playing against TP. All I remember is that both Ps massed carriers and the T massed BCs, so I was busy in my base building spore colonies. My ally somehow kills the P, but gets killed by the T, then the T just demolished by base with like 12 tanks. Then I said something along the lines of hoping my first game on Bnet would be a win, and he offered ally end but I didn't take it. Don't really remember my games after that, but my friends and I would play a lot of ffas and comp stomps (hehe 4v4 comps used to be challenging). Also played a lot of 3v3 fastest and bgh.
Fast forward a few years and I wandered onto the Bnet forums (good ol' SCGD) for some reason (I don't remember why at all). This is where I met people like amorvincitomnia, mahnini, c0bs, and ETT and they always mentioned a channel on east: public chat KJ. After hanging out in pckj for a while, I learned the ways of low money (somewhat). First time on TL was when it got linked in SCGD, I think it was ETT's modship or something, but I didn't stick around and sign up. I don't really remember what led me back here, but here I am.
I miss the old days.
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My best friend and i were on the same soccer team and one day he was talking about this cool game that he was reading about in PC gamer magazine or something. It was called starcraft and i remember going over to his house and reading about the game. I looked at all of the teck trees, and all of the different races. I remember him liking the zerg alot, and already talking about how cool burrow was. I on the other hand really took a liking to terran because of BC's lol
anyway we had both decided that a perfect strategy for us to use with 2v2 is him being zerg and me terran. We decided that if he build hydra and used burrow to trap the player in their base, i could come in later with BC's and yamoto cannon my way through and win! It was such a great strategy lol
Then i stopped playing the game till about 2 years ago- and now the only race i play is zerg lol I have learned a few things since those days, but damn that was shuck a good time ^^ Comp stomping the computer with hydra BC lol
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I think it was late 2000 or early 2001 and I was at my friend's house. He and his older brother had rented Starcraft 64 (For the Nintendo 64) from local video game store and upon my first time seeing it, it intrigued me. I bought the $50 Starcraft 64 and just played on that for over a year before I figured out the computer and online was where it's at lol (and for only $20 t.t). Back then I couldn't beat the campaigns, they were so damn hard.
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United States4796 Posts
03, Lurk D. I won.
Then I got into Fastest for about six months (oh, the shame!) then found it boring and now here I am!
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9069 Posts
99.
Back in the day Bulgaria was not a place where you could find and buy original copy of a computer game, thats why ppl who wanted to play bnet went to netcafes, besides the net at home really sucked. Anyway my parents gave me some cash to go and finally cut my hair. At school I was sitting near a kid, which I thought was the biggest computer game/ magic the gathering nerd ever. So anyway, we decided to skip classes and went to play some bnet. To think about it right now that guy was very very good back then, he played protoss and really did a lot of what we call macro today.
We played 2v2 on The Hunters and BGH for many hours. I dont know why but I left my wallet on the table, leaving my hat above it. A lot of ppl came to watch us, cause we were shouting and screaming like korean commentators. When we were eventually done, I took my hat but my wallet wasnt there. I was so obsessed with the game that someone stole it in front of my eyes and I didn't even noticed. My friend payed my time and I lied my parents my money was stolen at school.
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i got sc in 2004 (4th Grade) cause people in my 3rd grade class was like "My bro plays SC and its the most awesome game ever!" "Yea my bro plays too. He lets me play sometimes." So that made me envious and i went to a korean shop that was gonna close down so i got battle chest for only $10! At first i didnt know how to play and Terran was massively confusing. I didnt follow the instructions so i just used the cow cheat on the first level of Terran (LOL.) so it took me a few days to get started and the battlechest included a cheat guide so i used the invincibility cheat and i loved 8way ffa against comps. I complained when i created my own terrain and preplaced units and the units didnt come out :[...
So. 3 years later, my cousin had a friend over at his party and guess what he gave? yep. Starcraft.
i was just reminded of SC that i started replaying it but on bnet. I still knew the functions well because i was in love even in 2004. At first, i didnt know anything as i started playing some UMS (Cat n Mouse) Then i wanted stats so i played Fastest. I survived with a depot in my allies base.
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Oh shit Starcraft, not Sexual. My bad:
summer 98 i believe it was. I went to a friend's house and overheard them talking about sc (we all used to play wc2, duke3d, quake at this local comic/lan place). So I went to the place the next day and watched some games. Next day I went to my friend's house who had a copy, we took turns playing computers for a few days until finally someone bought another copy and we started playing 1v1s via Direct Connect.
So half of us would be at one house and half at the other. We had a sort of ongoing tournament for a week or two. It was so ridiculous the hoops we had to run to play each other. Running back and forth between houses (hoppin fences, skateboarding) we were a good 300-400 yards apart at least. Arguing about what maps to play, and thinking of funny names to choose. Then connecting lol. First call was to see if we were ready and tell no one to pick up the next call. Then yell to your family not to pick up the phone (which they always did and you could hear their stupid voice in the other house and shit lol). Then we would get mixed up and answer the next call when it was a connect attempt. Then the next time they'd actually call talk and we wouldn't pick up. lolz
First game I played I picked terran and made like 20 firebats. Sent them across the map and exploded them into tanks. I think we played a lot of sherwood forest, bloodbath, and that nuclear symbol 3 player map.
lol good times.
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