Starcraft

Starcraft

The best sci-fi real-time strategy video game of all time

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Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
Hunter
Starcraft was one of the first PC games I owned. I asked for it for Christmas (in 1998, I think) and anxiously waited for December 25th. After rummaging through gifts under the tree, a boxy package caught my eye. After my parents went to bed, I carefully unwrapped the gift to confirm my suspicions. It was Starcraft and Christmas day couldn't come sooner, I thought. I killed soooo many hours into Starcraft (and threw several curse words at my unreliable dial-up connection while playing online) and almost burned the house down because of it (that's another story). The game is incredibly well-balanced and holds up 16 years later.
Alex Manthei
@rrhoover Totally agree! I had a similar Christmas experience on this one. Every time I play Cards Against Humanity these days I have to smile whenever I pull the "You must construct additional pillions" card (and then I have to explain the reference to my friends, haha). One of the best video games ever made in my opinion.
Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
Hunter
@xoalexo haha, that's my favorite Cards Against Humanity card. :)
Alex Schiff
@rrhoover Starcraft, Red Alert 2, and Age of Empires II are, to this day, the only things that I have ever woken up before 8am willfully to do. I think I played a game every morning before school in 5th grade.
Alex Manthei
@alexschiff @rrhoover Did you guys ever play Dune 2000? Another good one from '98, and a really underrated game.
Alex Schiff
@xoalexo Dune 2000 was like *right* before my time. I remember a few of the older kids playing it but no one in my grade did.
Rory Reiff
Quest Coffee Club
Just played this a few weeks ago on my iMac (which was a bit of a challenge). It was a blast.
Will Imholte
Prime
@roryreiff I just installed on a windows partition, do you have a trick to get it running in OS X?
Rory Reiff
Quest Coffee Club
@willimholte This link was helpful. I didn't run it on a partition actually, but directly in OSX using Wine. http://forums.macrumors.com/show... Hope that helps!
Will Imholte
Prime
@roryreiff Excellent. Goodbye productivity. CC @thetylerhayes wanna throw down a LAN?
Tyler Hayes
Where can I find an iPhone 7?
@willimholte LET'S DO THIS
Will Lam
Taplytics
Good lord, I poured countless hours into this game.. and also Command & Conquer: Red Alert lol
Tyler Hayes
Where can I find an iPhone 7?
@will_lam Hell March was my jam.
Will Imholte
Prime
It was this game and Marathon that did it for me. (Marathon is also still available, can probably be made to run: http://marathon.sourceforge.net )
Owen Williams
Write Together
I miss this game still!
Seth Miller
I absolutely loved and was addicted to StarCraft.
Seth Miller
makes me want to bust it out again... oh wait, I don't have 5 free hours a day to devote to it so nvm