* On 10 August 2005, it was reported that a 28-year-old man named Lee(screenname b0f1000) from Taegu, South Korea died from exhaustion after playing a 49-hour marathon session of StarCraft in an internet cafe. His friends had visited him in the cafe after his mother reported him missing. Lee told them that he would finish the game and go home. He died a few minutes later. Lee had also previously been fired from a job for playing games at work.

* When NASA’s shuttle mission, STS-96, blasted off in May of 1999, Mission Specialist and StarCraft fan, Daniel T. Barry, brought along a copy of StarCraft. The game CD, along with autographed images of the crew and mission, now resides at Blizzard’s home office after having orbited the Earth 153 times and traveling 3.5 million nautical miles.

* For reasons the game’s story does not say, the greater part of the Terran units have heavy country accents and confederate, rebel stereotyped personalities as evidenced by such dialogue as the Marines entreaty to “Gimme sum’in ta shoot,” as with other cutscenes such as: (after running over a strange alien) “Looks lahke you mashed sum pore feller’s dawg, Sarge.” “It’s a zerglin’, Lester, smallah tahyp o’ the Zerg”. In other scenes, the Confederate battle flag (the “stars and bars”) is seen on various Terran vehicles and structures, including a Battlecruiser.

* Many units, such as the Zerg Lurker, have different abilities and traits in the official guide than what they are actually played as.

* There are two Starcraft Boardgames.

* The PC version of the game was released with three different boxes. The Protoss box was common, with a T rating. The Zerg and Terran boxes were rare and both stamped with M ratings.