StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The first game of the StarCraft series, it was released for Microsoft Windows on 31 March 1998.[1] With more than nine million copies sold worldwide as of 21 May 2007, it is one of the best-selling games for the personal computer. A Mac OS version was released in March 1999, and a Nintendo 64 adaptation co-developed with Mass Media Interactive Entertainment was released on 13 June 2000.[2] With its storyline adapted and expanded through a series of novels, StarCraft has three expansion packs available and a sequel in development.

Set in the 26th century, the game revolves around three species—the Terrans, humans exiled from Earth, the Zerg, a race of insectoids obsessed with assimilating other races in pursuit of genetic perfection, and the Protoss, a humanoid species with advanced technology and psionic abilities attempting to preserve their civilisation from the Zerg—fighting for dominance in a distant part of the Milky Way galaxy.