The first incarnation debuted at the 1996 Electronic Entertainment Expo, where it was unfavorably compared to Warcraft II. A Classic Mac OS version was released in 1999, and a Nintendo 64 adaptation, co-developed with Mass Media, was released in 2000.īlizzard started work on the game shortly after Warcraft II, another real-time strategy game, was released in 1995. The game spawned the StarCraft franchise, and became the first game of the video game series. StarCraft is a 1998 military science fiction real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows.
