This is very well done.

As a fan of StarCraft I must say that a lot of detail went into the making of this parody. The protoss turret sound at 1:05 cracked me up.

Here is the awesome 8-bit theme which could have been its soundtrack : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3in8Z-w-uHY

Not too long ago I found this company from the UK that still develops games for 8 bit micros:

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/

And they sell cassette versions! I've been thinking of writing one myself, just for fun.

There's also a game by Ian Bogost called Guru Meditation

http://www.bogost.com/games/guru_meditation.shtml

for Atari VCS (2600) and iPhone.

I can't get it to run on my Amiga...

Really well done. I like when there are post like this because, even thought it's not about technology or startup, it's still related to hacking. I'm sad when people down this talking about reddit because this post is clearly different. It has historical lessons in it and even thought you might not like gaming or starcraft, known that this game is still played today by thousand of players worldwide and that it is more than 10 years old.

Is it authentic? It seems to me to be a side-scroller inspired by StarCraft and an RTS. Plus the designer of Starcraft was 10 years old in 1984, according to wikipedia. It doesn't seem right/

Also (even though it was already said that this is a parody), the first alphas of starcraft1 were based on the warcraft 2 engine. Screenshots are available:

http://www.sirlin.net/storage/post-images/starcraft_alpha.pn...

( I think they abused ships for the flying units somehow, even though I am unsure about the precise details).

I think this is a cool detail to know, and it makes me curious if the first alphas for starcraft 2 were maps and hacks of starcraft 1 or warcraft 3 :)

I remember that. I'm glad they ditched it. On a side note, once WC3 came out, the marine/firebat/zergling/hydralisk models made me thing SC2 was imminent on the WC3 engine. Guess they didn't, and just went for a new engine entirely.

In case you are interested, more details on the development of starcraft 1 can be found here:

http://sclegacy.com/editorials/34-general/270-starcraft-evol...

The video ends with a "please don't sue me it's a parody" comment.

Even back in the '80s neglecting to kill the pylon was a grave error.

I want to see someone make a flash version of this

Hmm, I fail to understand the 2D-to-1D-mapping.

It's 1984.

What's the standard mapping?

Oops, ignore that comment.

This kind of post is probably against the guidelines. It does not engage any intellectual curiosity, and probably falls under:

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This isn't meat & potatoes, this is cotton candy. There is already lots of it on Reddit.

Basically this is the kind of Reddit-like submission that has turned y-combinator alumni off from HN.

Fun Police! You're under arrest for public display of humor.