I seen this on BWH and found it pretty cool and figure I would show this to people who haven't seen it befor.
1. In 1996, Starcraft Alpha finally emerges!! however....
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha1.jpg)
There is a unit that looks like a carrier, and that thingy that looks like a crab is guardian...
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha2.jpg)
There is mutalisk and overlord....
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha3.jpg)
The graphic interface of Starcraft alpha... there is only mineral no gas, and overlord can do attack of 4...
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha4.jpg)
command center??
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha5.jpg)
That looks like a hatchery and there is this hovering mineral field where drones can fly... Its freaky!!
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/buildings/creepcolony.jpg)
Creep Colony
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/buildings/spire.jpg)
Spire
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/buildings/defilermound.jpg)
Defiler Mound
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/buildings/sporecolony.jpg)
Spore Colony
Because of the success of Warcraft, they decided to go forward with Starcraft, but it was a failure. So they decided to dump the Warcraft 2 interface and decided to make a complete separate one.
2. Starcraft Alpha 2!!!
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/alpha/alpha16.jpg)
Finally, it looks like the starcraft of today!! but.. dropship is hella big... it can load 8 goliaths..
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/alpha/alpha17.jpg)
Hmm doesn't the display picture look similar to the one in dropship??
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/alpha/alpha11.jpg)
There are scouts!! Amazingly, it is going head to head with golliaths and what it appears to be early valkyarie.. and scouts are fatasses...
3. 1997, Starcraft BETA!
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta16.jpg)
Now we can see that there are gases now, and the display picture of wraith is congruent to the one today.. And the wraith's name changed from pheonix to wraith..
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta2.jpg)
lol.. Science Vessel has legs!!! but it apperas that the creep has disappeared and the size of the dropship has been reduced.
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta3.jpg)
Now everything looks normal, except there are few awkwardness.
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta5.gif)
The buildings and units of protoss... Gateway and Nexus looks gay..
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta7.jpg)
It looks like the shuttle is crawling, and gateway has been cut off...
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta8.gif)
Terran Buildings.....
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta9.jpg)
Battle between Terran and Protoss... Their flying patterns are wierd and there seems to be an unknown terran flying object..
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta12.gif)
Zerg units and buildings
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta15.jpg)
That thing on the top left is sunken colony... ITS A FLOWER FOR GOD'S SAKE!!
4. 1997 Beta 2, gamers could now obtain the copy
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta17.jpg)
Very similar to the current Starcraft, but its missing 2% of the whole thing..
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta19.jpg)
Tank is attacking an air unit...
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta20.jpg)
Again, tanks are attacking air units..
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta22.gif)
TEMPLAR!!
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta23.gif)
I wonder if that's a nuke..
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta24.jpg)
The Refinary is gay and look at the hp of the SCV... its INVINCIBLE!!!
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta27.jpg)
Firebat > Ultralisk
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta31.jpg)
Big ass pylon...
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta43.jpg)
Protoss buildings in Beta
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta44.jpg)
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta45.jpg)
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta46.jpg)
Repair Bay eh?? ...... I wonder what it does..
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta47.jpg)
Marines owning a carrier..
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta48.jpg)
There are lots of connected buildings...
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta49.jpg)
Terran Units
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta50.jpg)
Page 2 and Science vessel lost his legs!!
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta53.jpg)
Now the dropship looks normal with that friendly chick as the pilot.
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta55.jpg)
Looks the same right?? WRONG.. wraith is firing missiles.... at a ground unit.
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta56.jpg)
Zerg Buildings
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta57.jpg)
Zerg Units
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta57.jpg)
Page 2
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta18.jpg)
Archon can mind control.....
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/betacd.jpg)
Beta CD
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/bwcdbeta.jpg)
Broodwar Beta CD
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/oldbnet.jpg)
Old B.net
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/oldstartupscree.jpg)
5. After the success of Starcraft, Broodwar Beta was made!!
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw6.gif)
Huge ass Valkyrie
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw2.jpg)
Back then, valkyrie had a similar thing like a stimpack that allowed it to fire rapidly, but now that won't make a nice balanced game will it?? so they took it out...
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw4.jpg)
lurkers> marines!!!
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw5.jpg)
I know the first magic thingy, but not the rest.. :(
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw7.JPG)
Dark archon don't have mind control, but it has feedback, shield battery, and optical flare...
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/editoralpha.jpg)
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/betamain.jpg)
That was long.
Quote from: Explicit[nK] on February 12, 2006, 10:25 PM
That was long.
Yeah it is long but I found the information and the pictures pretty cool starcraft has come along way from its alpha beta stages.
Quote from: DeTaiLs on February 12, 2006, 10:30 PM
Quote from: Explicit[nK] on February 12, 2006, 10:25 PM
That was long.
Yeah it is long but I found the information and the pictures pretty cool starcraft has come along way from its alpha beta stages.
It really shows the time and energy devoted to its production. <3 Blizzard for it!
I actually took the time to look and read the caption to all of those pics. very informative post, sc has definitely come a long way.. now if they could just find a way to own all them flooders/loaders and make bnet for what it's supposed to be! GAMING!
(http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha5.jpg)
Looks fun :)
mmm i wanna play
One thing I found pretty cool and wonder why they took it out is the tanks attacking air units, I don't see how it is any disadvantages or unfair. Also I wonder what the life span for zerg units was I looked into it see if I could get any more info but it seems blizzard never documented that part I really would like to see what that was all about.
Very nice job, good job on the post! +1
That was amazing! You get a gold star.
That was very interesting.
Very good screenshots and information, thank you.
I want to play the version on the Warcraft engine :]
Dude that is amazing.
That's fucking awesome.
this was pretty much a giant copy paste from one of the starcraft fansites (sclegacy maybe?)
i wish warcraft adventures had magically leaked out
Wow, awesome!