So, I've been playing this game, Starcraft Brood War, for about a week, struggling against the AI about twice a day until rage-quitting.  "Dude," you're probably thinking.  " Why aren't you playing SC2?"  Because I'm not sure if my computer can run it with just a single core 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon processor and on board GeForce 6150 LE graphics tech.  Sadly, there's no demo for me to find out with.  But whatever, today, spoiler alert, I finally broke through and was able to achieve my first ever victory in SC1
 
I chose the smallest map I could, 96x96, and chose to play as Protoss, my new favorite race.  I decided, screw it, and  built hella tons (hehe) of probes and pylons, then made five gateways.  After having scouted the enemy base with a worker, my next move was to send in forty un-upgraded zealots.  With this force, I was able to massacre a whole bunch of Zerg soldiers and structures, and built up some hope, something I had lacked while playing the game the last few days. 
 
Anyway, I continued to building up small armies of zealots and sending them off to murder the Zerg until I began to run low on minerals to mine.  At this point, I tried to move to a corner of the map where I knew I could find more of the precious resource, but was stricken down by a squad of zerglings defending the spot.  After that failed attempt, I was down to just over 400 minerals, and desperately needed a new source of income. After that short scare, I came across some more minerals and set up camps, but was left with little production for a short time.  After the new base was established, and mining was back on track, I continued to pump out zealots and run them across the small map to my new base.  Every time i piled up 20 units, I'd ship them off to take out the new Zerg base south of my position.  After that base was done with, I proceeded to demolish the enemy's main base, and was congratulated with a victory message.
 
"Cool story bro."  Beat you.  I'm still pretty pumped up about this, so don't bring me down, kthxbye.
 
 Oh wait, if you've got a NA guest pass for SC2, and nothing to do with it, I'll be your doormat while you try to adjust to the new game.  Just sayin'.