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....
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha1.jpg[/img]
There is a unit that looks like a carrier, and that thingy that looks like a crab is guardian...

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha2.jpg[/img]
There is mutalisk and overlord....

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha3.jpg[/img]
The graphic interface of Starcraft alpha... there is only mineral no gas, and overlord can do attack of 4...

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha4.jpg[/img]
command center??

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha5.jpg[/img]
That looks like a hatchery and there is this hovering mineral field where drones can fly... Its freaky!!

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/buildings/creepcolony.jpg[/img]
Creep Colony
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/buildings/spire.jpg[/img]
Spire
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/buildings/defilermound.jpg[/img]
Defiler Mound
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/buildings/sporecolony.jpg[/img]
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!!!
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/alpha/alpha16.jpg[/img]
Finally, it looks like the starcraft of today!! but.. dropship is hella big... it can load 8 goliaths..
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/alpha/alpha17.jpg[/img]
Hmm doesn't the display picture look similar to the one in dropship??

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/alpha/alpha11.jpg[/img]
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!
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta16.jpg[/img]
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..

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta2.jpg[/img]
lol.. Science Vessel has legs!!! but it apperas that the creep has disappeared  and the size of the dropship has been reduced.

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta3.jpg[/img]
Now everything looks normal, except there are few awkwardness.

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta5.gif[/img]
The buildings and units of protoss... Gateway and Nexus looks gay..

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta7.jpg[/img]
It looks like the shuttle is crawling, and gateway has been cut off...

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta8.gif[/img]
Terran Buildings.....

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta9.jpg[/img]
Battle between Terran and Protoss... Their flying patterns are wierd and there seems to be an unknown terran flying object..

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta12.gif[/img]
Zerg units and buildings

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlybeta/beta15.jpg[/img]
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

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta17.jpg[/img]
Very similar to the current Starcraft, but its missing 2% of the whole thing..

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta19.jpg[/img]
Tank is attacking an air unit...

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta20.jpg[/img]
Again, tanks are attacking air units..

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta22.gif[/img]
TEMPLAR!!

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta23.gif[/img]
I wonder if that's a nuke..

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta24.jpg[/img]
The Refinary is gay and look at the hp of the SCV... its INVINCIBLE!!!

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta27.jpg[/img]
Firebat > Ultralisk

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta31.jpg[/img]
Big ass pylon...

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta43.jpg[/img]
Protoss buildings in Beta

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta44.jpg[/img]
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta45.jpg[/img]

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta46.jpg[/img]
Repair Bay eh?? ...... I wonder what it does..

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta47.jpg[/img]
Marines owning a carrier..

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta48.jpg[/img]
There are lots of connected buildings...

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta49.jpg[/img]
Terran Units

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta50.jpg[/img]
Page 2 and Science vessel lost his legs!!

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta53.jpg[/img]
Now the dropship looks normal with that friendly chick as the pilot.

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta55.jpg[/img]
Looks the same right?? WRONG.. wraith is firing missiles.... at a ground unit.

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta56.jpg[/img]
Zerg Buildings

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta57.jpg[/img]
Zerg Units
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta57.jpg[/img]
Page 2

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/beta/beta18.jpg[/img]
Archon can mind control.....

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/betacd.jpg[/img]
Beta CD
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/bwcdbeta.jpg[/img]
Broodwar Beta CD

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/oldbnet.jpg[/img]
Old B.net

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/oldstartupscree.jpg[/img]

5. After the success of Starcraft, Broodwar Beta was made!!
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw6.gif[/img]
Huge ass Valkyrie
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw2.jpg[/img]
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...

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw4.jpg[/img]
lurkers> marines!!!

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw5.jpg[/img]
I know the first magic thingy, but not the rest.. :(
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/broodwar/bw7.JPG[/img]
Dark archon don't have mind control, but it has feedback, shield battery, and optical flare...

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/editoralpha.jpg[/img]
[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/interface/betamain.jpg[/img]

That was long.

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That was long.
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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 author=DeTaiLs link=topic=14244.msg145767#msg145767 date=1139805025]
[quote author=Explicit[nK] link=topic=14244.msg145766#msg145766 date=1139804704]
That was long.
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Yeah it is long but I found the information and the pictures pretty cool starcraft has come along way from its alpha beta stages.
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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!

[img]http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/earlyalpha/alpha5.jpg[/img]

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!