Episode 028 – StarCraft (1998)

This week in Your Parents Basement, we’re locked up and good to go! From 1998, we’re playing StarCraft for the PC, because the third installment of StarCraft 2 is finally coming out this week!

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TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 – Intro, which are various marine quotes from this wonderful YouTube collection.
• 51:30 – Emails. The best games from 27 years ago, and the best vehicles in video games.
• 1:10:15 – Snifferoo. We’re experiencing dinosaurs and classical music.

SHOW NOTES

– According to Price Charting, StarCraft 64 is very expensive, at $47 for a loose cart to around $100 for the box and manual included. It’s a console port of StarCraft that is seen as OK, but nothing special. The original PC game is sold in a slew of formats, typically with the expansion Brood War included, and ranges in price from $5 to $20.

– This news came out after the show recording, found by Brisket on a site: Blizzard is looking to hire staff for re-releases of its older games.