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Full Playlist: You didn't think I'd have a strategy focused series without covering one of the grandparents of the modern genre, did you? Back before activisions, back before microtransactions, here back at the start of “the golden age“, Blizzard entertainment was a modest studio that had seen their best success to date out of the title “Warcraft: Orcs & Humans“ and its sequel “Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness“. On these successes they expanded their real-time strategy development out of high fantasy and into science fantasy. In 1998 Starcraft was released to exceptional reception, taking the title of top-selling PC game for that year. Very quickly after Starcraft's inital release, several expansion packs of story campaigns and multiplayer maps were added. “Insurrection“, “Brood War“, and “Retribution“. Of these three, Brood War was the most elaborate and wa
