Striker Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Just wondering where and when people got copies of XCOM 1, I got mine in the June '01 edition of PC Gamer magazine, along with several other old games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[[Micah]] Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 I got my first copy from a friend at school (he handed it to me over lunch) in the fall of 1995. But he didn't give me a copy of the passcodes to start the game. I had to call him on the phone everytime it asked for a new page number, until I had collected all the page numbers Oh, then I bought several copies several years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puasonen Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 When I bought my first PC, it was an used 386 and the game was on the harddisc. Strangely it never asked any codes I accidently found it and tried it and fell in love. Years later I bought a new PC (after 2 macintoshes) P120 and I noticed there had come TFTD and bought it too. Played it through and desided to buy X-com Enemy Unknown. I bought it used diskette DOS version and had no problems playing i with my P120. Then I bought Apocalypse next. My current version is downloaded from the net, (I think I have a right since I have the original too) just because that disk version doesn't work anymore. Corrupted or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 I got mine when I was around ten. (That would be around '96-'97 roughly.) I was checking the computer game section of buck a book and I noticed something called X-COM with a classic games logo. The ship on the cover looked cool, so I 'persuaded' my mom to buy it for me. From then on I fell in love with it. (It was the DOS version on a CD.) I used to play it all the time on my old 486. The fear of chryssalids kept me up on countless nights. Then, when TFTD came out, I tried to convince my parents to buy it, but to no avail. Years later, when Apoc came out, I asked for apoc for my birthday, and while shopping for it, I noticed TFTD... in the bargain bin! Two Xcoms in one day! Woo Hoo! Then I kind of lost touch with new Xcom releases (Interceptor on.) Until I saw interceptor in the bargain bin for only fifteen dollars. Plus, the strategy guide was only one dollar! Enforcer was the last Xcom game I bought. I got it from the bargain bin for only fifty cents. Nowadays, I play Xcom 1 CE that I got off of the CGW 200th anniversary edition CD (Although my dos cd still works, if I can find a comp that will run it). I play the TFTD CE that I got from this site, a long time ago. (Once again, my Dos cd still works), and I play the apoc that I got for my birthday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoni Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 I got mine from an illegal russian cd full of games... When I first played xcom1 it was long gone from the stores. The first xcom I played was TFTD and I was really curious about what it's predecessor would be like. So when a couple of years later I saw it on that cd... Much later when Collectors edition came out I bought that immediately. I started playing apoc. It was a fun game but I found the graphics hideous. The resolution was better but everything looked so ugly! I thought something was wrong with my graphic card first :o Xcom 4 was a big dissapointment and so was email xcom. It thought it was going to be like xcom 1 or 2 but it was like.... ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[stewart] Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 I'll take the 5th on this one; jeez I ain't stupid, and my paranoia is legendary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remysweet Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 Bought it from Best Buy in 1995 after a friend showed it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltopaeus Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 (edited) I played Ufo: Terror from the Deep in a psychiatric institution for youth on my next door neighbour's PC in the 1995 or so. I sneaked thru our mutual shower room late at night and played with the neighbour's permisson for many hours and many nights as the neighbour was sleeping If remember correctly, I copied a pirate version of Ufo: Unknown Enemy for Amiga500 from my friend and played it in the first and the second half of the 90'ties. My Amiga500 had too little memory, so the game run very slowly and the colours in the tactical combat where down to about 4 and the combat was all in green colour. It was fun anyway. I don't copy games illegally anymore. Edited March 29, 2004 by Miltopaeus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 My parents bought it as soon as it came out and played for a looooong time, they figured out how to get to work on ANY computer, even TFTD they loved (well, my dad loved TFTD) and ythen they bbought Apocalypse, my mom (Erinn as some have read) hated it but my dad went through and beat it in 2 weeks. I just inherited all the games except for apoc wich decided to stop working on my dad's comp as soon as he let me play it :crying: but I got to play a little bit of it once which I enjoyed while I copuld that is my story, good night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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