Key facts
- Developer
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Publishers
- NA : Blizzard Entertainment EU : Interplay Productions
- Director
- Patrick Wyatt
- Producers
- Bill Roper , Patrick Wyatt
- Programmers
- Bob Fitch, Jesse McReynolds, Michael Morhaime , Patrick Wyatt
- Composer
- Gregory Alper
Article
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game (RTS) developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment, and published by Interplay Productions in Europe. It was released for MS-DOS in North America on November 15, 1994, and for Mac OS in early 1996. The MS-DOS version was re-released by Sold-Out Software in 2002. It is the first game in the Warcraft fantasy game franchise.
Although Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is not the first RTS game to have offered multiplayer gameplay, it persuaded a wider audience that multiplayer capabilities were essential for future RTS games. The game introduced innovations in its mission design and gameplay elements, which were adopted by other RTS developers.