While the mistaken celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first Red Alert three weeks prematurely can be much attributed to the erroneous data on Wikipedia (which has been fixed with a source link), it still didn't stop people celebrating the game. A flashback article has appeared on the Rolling Stone website of all places, which investigates what was it in Red Alert that affected the way RTS games were made from then on. Here's an excerpt:
Click here to read the full article.