Herzog Zwei - the original Starcraft

I've only met a few people who even know about this game, and that is a sad thing. The original Starcraft (in my book) with a d-pad and 3 buttons, Sega Genesis did what they could. God bless their souls.

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[AirRaidX]

Herzog Zwei has NOTHING to do with

Starcraft, whatsoever.

HZ came out years before SC. HZ was basicly the first playable RTS game ever.

As Alianger, Herzog Zwei probably inspired Dune II.

"Herzog Zwei - the original Starcraft"

what an idiotic title!

[gartonator]

AirRaid and Allianger, I don't understand the miscommunication...

if Herzog was the first playable RTS, then Starcraft is the most playable RTS... that was my logic. And the 'world' of HZ is similar you must admit, to the world of SC. Kinda like a Terran with a the ability to change into an Archon if you need it.

Anyway, I fucking love both games. And I've never played another RTS. If you guys ever want to battle net give me a shout. I'm 'gartonator' in the Europe net.

[Kimchi206]

This game was sooo under rated..

[Madsy9]

This game predates Dune 2 with about two years.

So no, the game is not influences by Dune 2. Not even the resource gathering is the same. Though too bad most RTS games borrowed all their ideas from Dune 2, and not this game. Base capture beats the hell out of collecting crystals like in Starcraft and the C&C universe, or spice like in the Dune universe :-)

[mayorcool]

@AirRaidX 4 years later, I'll just say that a lot of early Blizzard developers credit HZ as the reason they wanted to make an RTS that eventually became Warcraft. This title is pretty accurate.

[cmj2b]

was a great Sega game

[WumboWarrior]

I want this game so bad. I have it on my emulator, but I'm not sure I understand what I'm doing in it.

[traffichazard]

Herzog Zwei was epic... so pissed that someone stoled my megadrive and cart library. Calling it "The original Starcraft" is probably giving Starcraft too much credit for the RTS genre.

[EEraEntertainment]

OG status

[kenaeda65]

I absoloutley loved this game as a kid.we would turn it on and leave the house for a few houre and when we came back our cash was full.The only bad thing was you can't exceed 50 units (vehicles, or soldiers )

[jkutyna]

I just dragged my Genesis out of the corner where its been rotting for more than a decade now, plugged it all in and after about 2 minutes Herzog launched just fine. Amazing how that is and you can't get an XBOX or XBOX360 to last more than a month without breaking on you. Herzog Zwei is the ultimate grandaddy of all RTS games.

[pirategreytooth]

I remember having battles that lasted hours upon hours. I think a few times my buddy and I had so many of the gun turrets that it was impossible for one side to win! This is one of my all time faveroites!

[BettyBlowtorchRocks]

lol sorry dude i miss read i thought you said "inspired by dune II"

[Alianger]

And therefore probably inspired the latter dune 2), like I said.