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Starcraft Turns Ten Years Old Today

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On March 31, 1998, Blizzard Entertainment released StarCraft, a revolutionary real-time strategy game pitting three powerful and distinctive races against each other in a war-torn galaxy. In StarCraft, the resourceful terrans, mysterious protoss, and relentless zerg find themselves in a confluence of events that has only one possible outcome: an epic war for conquest and survival.

The year of its release, more than 1.5 million copies of StarCraft were sold around the world, making it the bestselling PC game of 1998. To date, it has sold more than 9.5 million copies worldwide. A considerable number of those copies have been sold in South Korea, where the game continues to enjoy unprecedented levels of popularity.
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Starcraft Turns Ten Years Old - gamingshogun.com | By: JelalTrueshot
RETROSPECTIVE: Ten Years of... - next-gen.biz | By: Cyrus365
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Published: 96 days 14 hours ago | Article | PC
 
 

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mariusmal - 96 days 14 hours ago
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im getting old dammit.
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JelalTrueshot - 96 days 13 hours ago
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lol, one of my first thoughts when reading the retrospective was, "I'm too old for this s**t". I feel you.
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ChubbyLover - 96 days 7 hours ago
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warcraft 2 was the first game i ever played (grew up watching my dad play doom :P) but yeah starcraft is just really awsome sheesh tons of good memories with that game, the LAN battles were awsome :)

i really cant believe its been 10 years :P
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mariusmal - 95 days 3 hours ago
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i grew up playing adventure gaming and the first warcraft. i remember that i was one of the first here to have a soundblaster. me and my friends stayed hours just listening to the units voices when we interfaced with them. it was that new a feature for us ehehe.

hey chubbylover. how old are you btw ?
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Fruit Loops - 96 days 9 hours ago
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2 - wooo!
starcraft is BOMB
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Breakfast - 96 days 9 hours ago
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I like your name :)

Starcraft is THE bomb. My first online multiplayer game that i played to death.
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ScottEFresh - 96 days 9 hours ago
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10 years old and the game is STILL relevant. Thats just amazing to me. Blizzard are UNTOUCHABLE with their IPs. Simply will never be outdone by any other games ever.
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mariusmal - 95 days 3 hours ago
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so true mate. i still play starcraft online and diablo 2 online. and i still havent finished some armor sets ehehe
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LinuxGuru - 96 days 9 hours ago
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And ten years later, we're getting the sequel.

The wait has been unbearable.

Also....I am starting to get sick of waiting for Diablo 3.

Everybody wants it....just give it to us....it's been almost a decade, dammit!
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kevoncox - 96 days 8 hours ago
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personally, I prefered C&C red alert to starcraft.
Red Alert had more imagination to me.
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LinuxGuru - 96 days 8 hours ago
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I enjoyed Red Alert VERY much.

Tania kicks ass with those dual colt-.45s, eh!

=)
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TheIneffableBob - 96 days 7 hours ago
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The greatest game ever made.
It's disturbing how much I played StarCraft and its expansion. Even today I continue to play it fairly regularly.
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Genki - 96 days 5 hours ago
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7 - I know a lot of folks throw this phrase around...
but having since played the game that long ago, I have always said that Starcraft is my favorite game ever.

I have always, and continue to be a console only gamer too, and this game has a death grip on me. I hope they deliver with the sequel.
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