About Starcraft

I’d like to talk about a game called Starcraft which is my favorite computer game. This game was created by a venture company called Blizzard in 1998 in U.S.A. About the game, it is a strategy simulation game in which three tribes such as Terran of earth, Juggs of alien, and Protose of alien are battling on the universe. Among the three tribes I like Protose the most because of its awesome appearance in spite of the fact that they are aliens. Unlike other games, Startcraft can be played by friends or people you don’t know through the platform called ‘Battlenet’. Battlenet allows up to 8 people to play in the same game as a single player or as a team.
Because of its popularity, Startcraft contributed to the drastic increase of the number of PC rooms in Korea, from 500 to 15,000. Not only it caused the creation of new jobs like a pro-gamer, but also it exported its characters to the use of advertisements. Moreover, as a result of the game’s popularity, there appeared game institutions and game majors.
Since the first release of the Starcraft, it has hit the record sale of 6 million copies over the world including 2 million in Korea.