Games
StarCraft
86 mentions across 7 episodes and 5 podcasts.
PC · 1998
Also found as: StarCraft
Quotes
Hardcore Gaming 101 · 00:01:51 - 00:08:25
... Welcome back, everyone to HG101's top 47k games. Today we're going to talk about StarCraft. StarCraft was developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment, originally released for the PC on the 31st of March, 1998, and nominated to us by J-Buck. ...
Podouken · 00:43:24 - 00:44:28
successful in Japan. But again I don't know if that was like Orange Box. Yeah Portal was very successful in Japan. You know and I do have a couple of comments as far as like viability outside of Japan. The reason why they put this together. Japan is very, when it comes to arcade games, very you know trend hopping. If they could successfully make Starcraft an arcade game when Starcraft 2 was popular, I'm sure they would have. And it would have just absolutely tore through every single arcade ever. Case in point,…
Retrovaniacs · 00:18:53 - 00:19:28
... We'd have friends bring their computer by and we had all linked up together so we could play really different for Warcraft two and then Starcraft and in between Warcraft two and Starcraft was when Diablo came out. ...
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast · 01:15:58 - 01:17:01
perspective and it's so fun yeah I think my my favorite one that I still actually own well two of them one is my sieve three I think it might not even be a guy is just the manual but it goes so deep into the history and the civilizations there in the game that's its own book unto itself yeah then my Starcraft brood war that came in the war chest that would have a guide for every map and you know when you should be building stuff what you should be building where you should be going and stuff like that but then…
Retrovaniacs · 00:45:45 - 00:46:16
... So you already had Warcraft. I think Starcraft was already out command and conquer those games. Yeah, I'm strategy games. ...
Retrovaniacs · 00:23:51 - 00:24:24
... This is at its core, a very simple kind of arcade-ified real time strategy game, but not in a large scale like a command and conquer or Starcraft or something big like that. This is very small level comment, single screen screen does not scroll around. ...
Retronauts · 01:10:13 - 01:10:47
obviously was not released in a finished state. And the sort of going reasoning is that they wanted to make this competitive for the eSports scene, like we want to get this out for pro players to play. So we can get some eyeballs on streaming. eSports is starting to become sort of a global thing, not just in in Asia with Starcraft in, you know, League of Legends and other countries and stuff like that. Like, people are starting to make money off of this, we need to get our hands into that pie. So this game was…