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Tell me and see if you can beat mine. By the way everything I say is true. You can ask my mother.
I used to play soccer. My dad was one of the coaches, and he was very competitive. My soccer skill wasn't the best but it would be a lie to say that I wasn't "one of the better players". Thus, he pressured me really hard to get better. Most of the time I would goof off and talk to other kids, purposefully fall on the ground during a practice game, or cut corners when doing running drills. I'm not sure if anyone even liked me on my team.
Well one day this kid named John (who was known for being smart) told everyone about this awesome game called Starcraft. At the time my expertise lied in Tiberian Sun. After he explained that Starcraft was similar, I was determined to buy it. Not two days later I begged my Grandmother to go and purchase it for me. She did, as she usually does. She has done so with every Pokemon game up to Ruby (yeah that is kind of recent fuck off).
Having 56k at the time, starting the program up and going online right away was my mission. Since back when I was in 5th grade not everyone had the internet. So Earthlink to me was the absolute shit. Although it sucked when I stayed home "sick" and my mother was like "Why can't I get through the line? Were you playing video games all day?" And I'd tell her oh she must have called when I was on the phone with 'Grandma', which was a blatant lie. Think she believed me though. Anyways, so logged in and played a few games immediately with Zerg. Blizzard maps. I'll never forget my first game on Challenger. Some Terran who had a sick ranking on the ladder was playing me. I don't remember what the fuck I was doing at the time but all I remember was four vultures entered my base before my Spawning Pool was done. At that time we exchanged some remarks like "Fuck you hacker" and he replied quite meanly. If memory serves me correct his name was "MSpiral".
Well after doing some UMS, which I found way more entertaining at the time, I met a guy in some massing game. We played a shitload of massing games 2v2 and he taught me everything there was to know about them. Mainly how they were all rigged and we needed to be Goku and Vegeta. Anyways we chilled in some chat channel and he then proceeded to tell me he fingered chicks and worshipped Satan. That is cool and all, and then I log off. So what the fuck do I do next? I go up to my mom and am like "YO MOM I MET THIS GUY AND HE WORSHIPS THA DEVIL AND STICKS HIS FINGERS INSIDE OF GIRLS". And that is why I am not currently in Korea.
Anyone else?
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Norway28267 Posts
lolz it was back in april 98 i was playing a lot of wc2 so had been looking forward to sc for a while then one day my brother surprised me through having gotten it wohooo!! that bastard had already played the 4 first levels of terran campaigns before I got to see it though, but then we played a game me protoss him zerg on diablo (5 player map, I started near 4, him around 6)
i remember we were just building all units and stuff like that not really knowing anything, but after 40+ minutes I won the game i remember being left with the impression that zerglings > reavers rofl
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Haha back in april 98 also. Was waiting for the game to come out, bought it on day 1 when it was available in my city. I did the first Terran mission and logged in straight to bnet (got account #2xxx something) joined the first game I found : it was a FFA on bloodbath. I chose Terran and I remember there were 3 Terrans and 1 Protoss and the Protoss guy was way better (or at least it felt that way) and just rolled over me with Zealots ! Thats why I started off with P and only did zealot rushes for I don't know how many games before switching to Zerg after getting my ass handed to me by 2 hatch hydra rushes.
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lol my first real game was during the summer/fall of 98 vs a neighbor who had just bought the game.
I was toss and mass cannoned all the chokes available on whatever map it was( can't recall) thinking turtling was smart as P (lol) anywho she was terran and since i placed only as many pylons as necessary she went battle cruisers and ghosts, then proceeded to yamato and nuke all my pylons to deactivate my cannons, i massed goons but lost. . . damn tanks thats right my first game was a loss to a girl.
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I saw some guys playing SC in a net cafe, and i remember those huge, badass energy-golems (archons) ripping trough the masses of ugly creatures, and than i saw zerg buildings morphing, which was the most disgusting thing i saw till that in a monitor. (i was like 10 year old or so)
I knew i have to play this game, i wasnt' that excited since i saw Wolfenstein 3d, so i got into it, got better than all of my friends, than i entered bnet, when i was able to beat eveyone i got to know online, i entered iccup as a barely D ranked player
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So In 1999 I was with a bunch of friends who had some speed. We all began to rail it. A few hours later we got some 40oz and vodka+oj. Everyone except the driver chick was faded, she kept doing speed instead. We drove around all night doing more speed. Someone had the idea to stop at staples and steal some air duster/dust off and we took big hits of that crazy shit. So later that night we all go back to my one friend's house who's parents were out of town and we all crash out on his floor/room. The one asian girl who was 18 (I was 15) was laying with me cause we had a little connection going on. The next day she began sucking my dick right there on the floor while everyone was sleeping. It was kinda weird. A few hours later someone showed up with a bunch of 40oz and we all got drunk again. She pulled me aside when no one was looking into his sister's room who was gone as well. And she got on top and started grinding me. We fucked a good 30 minutes and the other people figured out what was going on and kept trying to barge in and throw shit at us from the crack in the door or whatever. It was funny. I couldn't cum and I was really drunk after like a 40 and a 32.
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There was this gay Filipino dude in my high school who kept bragging about how good he was in Starcraft so I bought the game, played it for a few weeks and then kicked his ass. That is how my Starcraft story began. I still suck though.
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I believe it was during the school year of 2001. My friends had started talking about StarCraft during Art class, and I always tried to talk with them based off my knowledge of the Terran Demo Campaign. I got owned when they mentioned High Templar. No idea what it was. Then my friend had a birthday party, my other friend gave him the battle chest, and we watched him play. He was so gosu, with the 60 APM, thinking Zero Clutter was for pros, and playing on Brood War. Since he had the Battle Chest, and he already had regular SC, he just gave me his copy. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, never playing the entire SC game before. Later, a completely unrelated friend taught me how to make Archons, and what Arbiters do. I started playing fastest, getting cannon rushed all the time. Switched to low-money because of forums, starcraft.org, gosugamers.net, warboards.org (Now starcraft.org), etc. I kept reading guides for Brood War, never anything for Vanilla. After reading a bunch of guides, I was convinced MMF was imba, switched to Terran, and bought Brood War. After that, it was just switching races, and getting better.
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It was probably sometime back in '02 - '04, one of my friends who lived across the street had StarCraft on his computer. I remember seeing a bunch of marines raping up some zerglings and was instantly hooked. I need to get that game. In 5th grade(a year or so later) a friend of mine let me borrow the CD (which didn't come with the cd-key so I was stuck playing single player) and I played through the campaign multiple times (using cheat codes XMFD).
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My older brother got SC in summer or fall 98 and since we shared a PC back then I was introduced to it right away. I remember playing through all the missions except the Zerg ones (I think I stopped at the one where youre just running around with Hunter Killers and are supposed to rescue stuff). Few months after we finally got Internet (128k ISDN yay) and of course started to play online immediately.
I played pretty much everything (low, bgh, fast) and it was just amazing. People from my town would also start to play and soon we all got stuck on playing moneymaps which was the shit back then because in Germany there has been a really huge Vanilla moneymap community.
For my first online experience, I really can't remember what map or race I played. But what I do know is I loved Protoss from day one and never even thought about switching to another race for the whole entire 11 yrs I'm playing online. The very first game I can remember though was a FFA vs random ppl on B.Net on Diablo. I was so confused by the map and just built random stuff but I won after like 2:30h.
Sadly it'll be never like that again
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Winter 99'. My parents invited some friends over and they brought their son with them (was 2 years older then me). At that time I was playing Warcraft II. They said that if I liked WC II so much I might be interested in StarCraft. The next day I went to his house and watched him play the zerg campaign for about 2h and decided to give the game a try. He said that he actually wasn't into it too much, and preferred to play sports games (racing and football). So I borrowed it from him for 1 week, then 1 month, 1 year.... until he said I could keep it. In return I gave him some gameboy crappy games.
I don't remember my 1st game, but I have a memorable one from 99'. We played 3v3 on BGH and everyone chose protoss. We all massed goons off of 1 base and decided to meet in the middle for the showdown. It was soooooo cool seeing 6 different colours of goons on the battlefield freezing up xD.
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Hmm, my cousin introduced me to it, being a video game enthusiast as early as 8, I managed to pick up the basics of the game. I was more of the casual player back then and I used to cheat my way to finish the campaign.
My first online experience was a game with my cousin, we were both Terrans and we got raped hard by the Zerg AI. I remember desperately building a turret to detect a lurker and I can't recall if I didn't finish the turret or if the turret didn't detect the lurker....
Got back to the game December of 2007, played a FFA game with my friends because we were bored with DotA and CS. That FFA game turned to a 1v7 rape (me being a part of the 7) and I decided to get better to beat my friend who raped us all. Too bad he does not want to play with me when he discovered that I played the game day and night..
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I was very obsessed with wc2, and was even able to get my dad to pay for kali for me at the time (no small feat). We weren't very well off, and had a pretty terrible computer at the time. I still played the hell out of wc2 though, and later diablo... which was borrowed from a friend, and was my first experience in hiding things on computer from inept parents. My family was strictly religious, so even getting games like wc2 and starcraft took some effort, but diablo was a serious no.
Anyway, I was obviously into anything Blizzard created at the time, so I picked up SC when it came out (thankfully my dad was into sci-fi, and actually liked playing SC himself, so it was smooth-ish). We hadn't upgraded our computer, but it could still run SC alright. The 28.8 modem left quite a bit to be desired, though.
I played a bit of the 1v1 ladder at the time, but for some reason never got into it as much as I did wc2, at least at first. I had a lot of fun playing, but I ended up getting sidetracked on b.net at the time. I became a bit of a social whore in BC1 (Blizzard Chat 1), and most of my games for a long time were big ffas with friends there. I lagged miserably in 8 player plains of snow, hunters and such, and I honestly don't remember why people let me in games in the first place. Seriously.
I remember finally around the time replays were introduced (something I was so incredibly amazed at), I saw some replays of a few really good players at the time, some of which were top wc2 players as well. That got me into becoming good, but eventually I got caught up in MMOs and... well, that's a completely different story. I didn't get into following the SC pro-scene heavily until years later...
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bw just came out and my brother went afk while on b.net i made a game called 2v1 blood bath comp stomp guy joined and left as soon as i started spamming valkyries.
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Summer 98, a friend of mine got a 2nd comp, we modified a small room in his house to install both comps and then started playing wc2 and red alert. Soon after his brother came back with a brand new disk of sc. We must have spent 10+ hour to find how to play on lan with 2 comp and only 1cd (for some reason there was no way to burn the cd), once that was done, our lives were ready to be fucked up.
At start we played a lot of 2vs comps on maps like orbital death or hunters, but i grew tired of it and went to b.net (where i got my ass kicked pretty hard). 1st game on internet was a 3v3 against buddies playing together, called themselves the "007 clan", i dont know if they were good, but its sure that we were complete noobs, the defeat was swift and bloody as hell. It was fun enough for me to stay 10 years though.
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On September 23 2009 20:26 GTR wrote: bw just came out and my brother went afk while on b.net i made a game called 2v1 blood bath comp stomp guy joined and left as soon as i started spamming valkyries.
LOL
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I had seen a footage/pics of sc and was already at the stage of addiction on sim city 2000 and wc 1/2(plus other various pc games). When I finally got my hands on the actual game I went straight to b.net and got owned by lings. So I played zerg and never knew how to make lings and lost again. Straight to campaign I went.
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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.
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Played LAN with my cousin. I played Terran, he played Protoss. He DT-rushed me three times. He never told me I had to build detectors.
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I won my very first game of starcraft I ever played, I hadn't even seen this game before. It was vs a friend I got to know trough diablo1, he had already played some sc. It was TvT, and I won with massing tanks and using engineering bay to see up to the cliffs inside his base =) I was so clever^^
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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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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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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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I was over at a friend's house, and he was playing fastest (~05,06?), and kept losing. Then he played single player with cheats, but I was being a pokemon master at the same time so i didnt know that he had used the cheats...
Operation cwal so h4x
So I got starcraft and played bnet with my friendz.
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Some guy had a crush on my sister so he bought her StarCraft.
I freeloaded.
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A friend of mine had the game in '99 and it looked cool. However I didn't start playing it myself until 2002. Been following progaming ever since. Kids nowadays don't get how cool it is to be able to watch VOD:s of new games all the time. Back then it was all about written battle reports.
I watched reps, found Boxer. Found Nada. The rest is history
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On October 01 2009 07:29 BanZu wrote: Some guy had a crush on my sister so he bought her StarCraft.
did he get the girl?
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First time i played was on n64, Also currently the reason im D on iccup with no hope in the world
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fall of 99, freshman year of college, all the boys on my dorm floor played it so i just played along. I remember asking "what's the point of the game" ... "build stuff and kill the other guy".
we played 3v3 bgh and had dorm wars (rather, it was like 3rd floor vs 4th floor, or suites vs suites..) and i used the ID lilsusie even back then. =/ was nice when everyone was on the same level in terms of skill and there was always a satisfaction of beating out the boys who always said "girls dont play games". ^^
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On October 01 2009 14:05 etch wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2009 07:29 BanZu wrote: Some guy had a crush on my sister so he bought her StarCraft. did he get the girl? Nopers
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Think it was may 98, was in fifth grade and had just finished class. went up to the schools "daycare" where children can play some games or whatever until a parent can pick you up, anyway in the computer room one of the daycare personel/computer teacher was playing SC. He had no minerals left but the screen was full of his cannons so the game was a draw... He and us(the kids) were playing LAN 8 players on BGH sometimes a week.
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Read about SC in some gaming magazine and got interested in it. At that time we were a bunch of friends who went to a "computer club" (aka PC bang if you like) frequently to play on LAN. We were into C&C Red Alert at the time, and a bit of Warcraft 2. SC was fun, but kinda kept playing the old games which we knew better.
Broodwar happened for me in 2001 or even 2002, I don't remember. Some of my classmates in high school played it and I went along. We were still playing in computer clubs, although we had internet at home then. Funny, I can't remember when I got broadband first... Anyway, I had a pirated copy at home, played in single player a bit, mostly melee vs comp. Never finished the campaign. Boring as hell! On LAN we played 2v2 or 3v3 on BGH. We had a thing about no attack for the first 15 minutes so we all went big air and duked it out lategame only. This is how I got bored with it. Wanted to try low money/or still BGH but with no restrictions but had no one to play with so the passion died.
Wikipedia. This is how I heard about professional Starcraft competition. By accident. Got on youtube watched the games there as entertainment, with the famous commentators Klazart, Diggity, Moletrap and later Cholera. I found the skill of the players fascinating and pimp. At one point I decided to play as well. In order to get better, I lurked forums(see my post count and you can guess I have registered here only recently) and even watched -combat-ex-!
To an extent, I have played Starcraft for less than 2 years.
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Somewhere around early 2001 i think, when I was in primary school. My older brother got Starcraft for christmas from our relatives in Singapore. I tried playing it, but I sucked and ended up using the power overwhelming cheat. I stopped but picked it up again around 2006 where I played a lot of LAN and got into watching the Korean leagues, then finally this year I started playing online, which is why I joined TL.
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I still remember my first game ever. I was terrible, but I watched my older brother play a lot so I kind of knew what to do, although I was incredibly slow at it and new to it.
It was a 3v3 on BGH, and 2 people left, so it was a 2v2. One of the opponents decided to leave, so it became a 2v1. He stayed anyway. I remember he had a wall of supply depots from his main base, pretty much up to the middle. It took us forever to finally kill them all and get into his base. My partner was good, so he pretty much did everything, although I used a few siege tanks and marines. We ended up winning. I still remember, quite clearly, how much of a fun experience it was and totally different.
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After her parents left, my cousin and I were left in the room, two bored kid with nothing to do for an hour. She asked if I would like to. My eyes opened wide, and with a smile we went into the bedroom. She hopped on and after strumming through the introductions we got to the main stuff. She first started by taking off her sweater and tossing it on the chair. Then she began to reveal her magic, piece by piece. I was only ten, and it was my first time. After she showed me the basics, she began to play, explaining how everything worked and what went where. Then she guided me, teaching me what to do and soon we were both enjoying ourselves. At first it was strange, having to deal with so many new things, but at the same time I was hooked, curious, interested. She seemed to get happier the more I slowly picked up the pace. I slowly got faster and faster, but man it was hard. I just had so much difficulty keeping my frustration in, but she calmed me down and showed me a few secrets. As it went on, both of us were intently at it, she gradually gauging me and dealing with it accordingly. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't do anything about it.
That 9 pool was fucking imbalanced.
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Last year playing against one of my korean friends:
TvZ on the 2 player map boxer: I went mech. I specifically remember making like 5 golaiths 3 tanks 3 vultures and some nukes. My nukes didn't land, and 40 minutes into the game, she decides to a move her 200/200 army into my base of like 50 pop.
And people credit fantasy for creating mech :D
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