It is especially popular in South Korea, where professional players and teams participate in matches, earn sponsorships, and compete in televised matches. Nine million copies of StarCraft and its expansion pack, StarCraft: Brood War have been sold since its release. It was the best-selling computer game of 1998 and won the Origins Award for Best Strategy Computer Game of that year.
The main storyline follows a war among three galactic species: the strong, stable human Terrans, the hive mind arthropodic Zerg, and the psychic humanoid Protoss warriors. Starcraft was also later ported to the Nintendo 64. It was initially released for the PC platform in 1998 a Macintosh version of the game was released in 1999. StarCraft is a real-time strategy computer game by Blizzard Entertainment.
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