What hooked you to starcraft and why?

For me personally it was the first game i played where i actually could create stuff. I guess it was the first step for alot of game designers, imean starcraft players invented counterstrike didn't they?

I've been playing since 1998 when released -- what about you guys?

I first borrowed SC from a friend for around a month. In that time I just thought "hey, cool" then I had to give it back so I uninstalled it.
For some reason, though, Staredit wasn't uninstalled and I stepped on it one day while deleting some old stuff. I started playing with making maps and I liked it more than when I had the game itself. I'd say that's the reason that dragged me into the SC universe, Starcraft Mapping.

My friend told me a lot about it. I couldn't resist.

My uncle downloaded it from Internet (kekeke) and then I saw my brother playing it, and I liked it. But, just as Corbo, as soon as we brought it home, I took a look at Staredit... And started messing with it

I have a feeling this is going to be the general answer, but once I started map making that was that.

thats not a general answer. Mapmaking is why we play this game after so many years, well most of us

cant talk for koreans who look at sc like a religion

Map making. I found something I understood and thought it was cool. The more I played with it, the more complex things I could design. It was intriguing, pushing my limits.

Dad played it when I was like fucking 3 or something and now I follow his footsteps.

Map making. 'nuff said

it was first time I discovered people online, thought it would be cool to have internet buddies, then I started map making, t'was fun :]

I first got SC for Staredit. I got tired of it after a month and then stumbled upon Sc.org and SEN and started modding.

It magically appeared on my computer screen when I was three. I remember a teal hatchery, and making unrealistic and unbalanced melee maps at age four.
Thats about it.

About a year after it came out, my brother had heard it was a good game, I was like 7 at the time, he went and got it, I was more into Age of Empires 2 at that point, and I loved to create maps for Age of Empires, and when I finally started playing SC, at first all I knew about was Melee maps.

After a while, I found the UMS section, and loved that, and my brother started making a movie map, that got me interested in map making, that and the two maps Movie Contest and Sims Life RP2, both still are amazing to me, and I began to try triggering myself, with a map called The Sims SE, basically, all the triggers were was a shop, then I started Ghentinsville Gas RPG, found SeN, started asking for help, and later began giving help.

SC is by-far the most captivating game I have ever played, it's like The Sims, except less gay and it doesn't get old as quickly.

My older cousins taught me to play.

Played w3 before sc. I thought sc was fugly lol. but my neighbor got me into it. II had starcraft before i even had internet. Messed with the editor but never really got the point. Once I got internet, I played heaven bound and began to make bounds. I was getting ready to quit sc cuz the clan I was in was full of idiots, leading to its inevitable demise. Jo_Dada saved me. He inspired me with his Jo_Defense 1.

My dad used to sit me on his lap and teach me how to play WCII, After which he bought SC, which I fooled around in the campaign for a while (around 4-5 at the time), then, after beating it, I started playing with the editor. Eventually I built a campaign that sucked so much ass it was sad, but that's when I started looking for other people's StarCraft maps, when I stumbled on SC.org. Something eventually brought me to V4 of SEN, and that was that.

I got hooked on the UMS. If it wasnt for UMS I wouldn't think about playing starcraft for almost ten years now. Map creating was the huge bonus about it.

... And then gave me the game.

The long awaited story of how dm came to StarCraft and saw the light *Cue music* [/andendoverlydramatisedbeginning]

SC was advertising their console version, I bought it knowing I was good at C&C2 and said what the hell why not (Actually I was 10 and afraid of cursing at the time so I probably said please mommy please buy this for me), Played my first 1v1 vs my bro with my N64, on a really confusing map, but got through the tech tree and finnaly we ran out of minerals trying to kill each other (How often does THAT happen?). After that and a couple campaigns later, I played Pro bowl and was instantly hooked on UMS. About 3 years later I find the SC battle chest being sold in Wal Mart (And mistakining it for more missions and added story) I wanted it. After playing 2 missions in I relised the only thing different was the tutorial mission and I had just bought the same game again. Then I saw this button called Battle.net. I could remember waiting for the 1.10 patch to download over dial up, and when it did, I was astonished. I came to the realm of bnet as Dark_Ghost_123 origionally (My brother darkling actully was Dark_Marine_114 (Mindfuck)) And probably a couple years later I played The Haunted BC, and was amased of the mapper (Yoshi obvously) and decided to check out the site which was advertised.

And I mention this all because I figure all of us here had to get hooked to UMS to even stay attached to SC, not just the melee.

I played fastest maps and got addicted really really fast.