bravado11 Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 My uncle ben sucked me into the game after he got sick of it (dono why).He had the floppy version and i lent it to a cousin of mine and he lost it.After 6 years i was thinking what game has anything similer to it.But i couldnt think of a game thats the same of even close of being near as good. :uzzi: :alientalk: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[[Micah]] Posted January 24, 2003 Share Posted January 24, 2003 My first copy was a pirated one that a friend gave me about 7 years ago. I have since bought copies at Babbages and other stores, as well as a few copies off ebay and other online sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jwh Posted January 24, 2003 Share Posted January 24, 2003 I was passing through a store and checking out the soitware available. I saw Xcom and as I really like science fiction I thought that I'd try it. Its has now become the game that I play the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkon Posted January 27, 2003 Share Posted January 27, 2003 I originally played it on the Amiga CD32, then i got the gold edition for the pc when it was out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mileniumsoldier Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 My big brother had the game for ms-dos when i was a kid (5 years) i played it and i love it and since it disapeared from home. now when i came to this site, i found it. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 got it for free off the PC gamer's collecter games edition CD-ROM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 I really don't know how I got it, but my faintest memory of our first pc tell me the game was on it. However, I haven't got a clue on how it got there.... Nevermind, it was the best thing on the d***ed thing, so I was very happy! But this is why I voted 'other'.....By the way, the game was cracked...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 I downloaded it, because i love X-COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 I friend of mine got a Playstation and showed me this amazing game. So I decided to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark0 Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 i remember sittign near my bro and watch him play , i was maybe like 6yrs old, for TFTD i remember that i had a dream i was in it, i was just too addict to that game.and the first copy of it was the real version, (i lost it some how)Â right now i have Xcom1 Demo on a floppy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extralucas Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 Friend showed me when he got an amiga. Since this time I think about Ufo: Enemy Unknown that is a best game ever . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stewart Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 Buy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extralucas Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 Downloaded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkdreg Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 I saw it in a store and bought. Sadly I lost my disc and manual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xracer Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Well a freind gave me a version about 10 years ago not sure about the time!!! but i left my state, and lost the game. in 95 i bought Playstation and found XCOM but it looked diff. but i bought it. in 97 Return to my home town and i went trough evey store until i found XCOM: collectors editionand since then :birthday: party....party :uzzi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienKiller Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 My first experience with X-Com happened to be on the Playstation. At the time I found it at a Best Buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadEye Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 For me it was a friend who just came up to me one day telling me that he had just played "the most AWESOME game ever." Until then I've never played any strategy games. But once I started playing it, I was hooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shippy Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Playing the demo(when it was originally released on 3 1/2) over and over and over again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Squad Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Use to "live" at my friend who had the game, until i got it xmas to Amiga1200. Now i have it A1200 and 2 PC versions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freelanc3r Posted May 7, 2003 Share Posted May 7, 2003 in about 1994 my brothers friend 'lent' it to us.  it worked magnificently on the 486. my brother was and still is much better at it than i am, in the tactical fighting at least. anyways back then i was 10, and i didn't like fighting at night cos it spooked me. so did the music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 I read a review in a game mag, when it came out first, and I immediately wanted to have it. I have NEVER regretted the purchase of this little gem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 Actually I think I just played my friend's copy of the game at first, not sure if I ever bought it... Recently found the collector CD for $5, so I got it for nostalgia. When it wouldn't work, I started looking for fixes and found this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jim69 Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 I read a review in a game mag, when it came out first, and I immediately wanted to have it. I have NEVER regretted the purchase of this little gem Same as that, I think it was PC Gamer. Saw TFTD in same mag couple years l8r, but 4 some reason never brought it. Downloaded it a couple of months back and got whooped serverly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippyjon Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 i remember thinking "anything with a stratergy guide that big must be worth a try"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miceless Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I forget how I got it, but I have the box and manual still. Lost the disks at some point. I guess it might have been a present or something. Now I have to download a copy to play, but I did own it before. Â TftD I bought myself, some time later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pallidar Posted September 9, 2003 Share Posted September 9, 2003 Stroke of luck in my case   When I was a kid I wanted Doom oh-so-badly. Since my gaming habits were controlled by my parents at the time, that was a no-go. Violence in games begetting violence in real life and whatnot. So I browsed through the shop, found this little game called UFO:Enemy Unknown. It looked nice, so I thought what the heck. MY dad thought it was okay. Big mistake  Haven't stopped killing aliens since.    Oh, and I got Doom later anyway. :uzzi2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_dxman Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 NOTHING!!!HA HA HA HA HA!!!i just downloaded it!!! 35.5MB and 4 hours later i have a full game! it is not like i dont wnat to buy it but i dont have a credit card and i cant get my dad to give his number to any websites so i cant buy it.My X-com story.i first saw x-com in 1994. a friend had borrowed it from one of his friends. years later i bought a 3 in 1 pack and X-com 3 was part of that pack.I loved it and made it my mission to find all x-com games.i now leagly own X-com 3 and 4.My X-com 1 cd exploded in the drive (cheap peice of crap) so i just downloaded a replacement and the manual.i could never find X-com 2 in sotres where i live so i doenloaded it. I LOVE X-COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Luke Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 I would watch my Dad for hours kill alien after alien on his computer in my parents bedroom. After listening to my parents fight millions of times, going to bed late to see my pops in one more terror mission, and putting off homework to watch something that was like a movie to me, I became hooked on X-COM UFO (but it only took about an hour of WATCHING the game to get me hooked for life). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsamsam Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 A friend of mine in scholl had it and played it, so i tried once.I became addicted and begin with a self destruction cycle of my social life,no job, no pussy, no friends, no nothing, just UFO ENEMY UNKNOWN.Now after several years in the UENA, ( Ufo enemy unknown anonymus ), i believeim cured but still have some wierd dreams about beeing abducted and wake up full of fear that one day i look at my pc and start playing again...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOÂ Â Â Â Please do the same as me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 Hehehe, "Samsamsam, this is Ufo Calling you! You must play me..."  Seriously though, Xcom is one of the best damn games ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsamsam Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 Sure it is.And ufo aftermatch can put all the eye candy in top of it that still sucks...SAMÂ Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 Just wait 'till Xenocide is ready :happybanana: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsamsam Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 well i think its better to work of a bit and speed up the process.By the way tomorrow night ill post some topic with vector for alien terror mission and stuff like that.Today im must work on the real world... SAM  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imperialus Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 I used to live in Argentina, on one of my few trips back to Canada I saw UFO Defence sitting on a shelf in some computer store. Thought the spaceship on the box was the coolest thing since sliced bread. Nagged my dad untill he bought it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 I was just passing through the store, looking at the various bits of software that were available. Me being about 10 or so at the time, and my love of all things sci-fi, it just looked interesting... so what the heck, told my dad to get it and voila, I'm sucked into the x-com world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDawg540 Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 Back in high school I had a small network of gaming friends and we would always circulate the good games we came across. (I miss the post-copy protection days) Among the many good games this resulted in the biggest gem was the original X-Com. I was hooked after the first mission and kep backup copies of the Zip files on 2 sets of disks and my hard drive to never risk losing the game. Later when Xcom2 was released i rushed to stores to get a copy. One of my biggest gaming regrets is not having yet beaten part 2 (friggin tech tree) I eventually bought a full copy of part 1 so that i would have Cd backups of both games. Sadly i heard horrid things about apocalypse so to not ruin my feelings of the Xcom universe i have passed it over and stayed with the originals. I'm HIGHLY looking forward to playing Xenocide. I've been hoping someone would take the reins and revive this classic in a modern setting for too many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robo Dojo 58 Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I didn't pay for it. I got the X-COM 1-3 bundle as a gift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezzz Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 I saw it first time on a work related compcourse in 1994-5 i think,the houers were long so a friend decided to bring some games, and thank god he brought X-COM1.and i was instantly hooked..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remysweet Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 My best friend was into downloading games from pirate bulletain boards. He always had the latest games and I would watch him play for hours. He gave me a copy of it, and what do you know?, it was buggy. My dad liked it too, so he went out and bought it, thinking that would fix the bugs. He's a silly man  I never bought TFTD, but played it at my friends house. I bought X-Com:Apoc and didn't really like it. I still have X-Com DOS CD, X-Com on Playstation and X-Com Apoc but I can't play any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xer0 Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 My friend bought the game cheap at some old game sale, and he and I first played it in second grade. Â Funny thing was, we actually did pretty well in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noabbitnofun Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 I just went to a site that deals with old games that are now in the public domain. And these games (XCOM 1 & 2) are public domain now! >8-)Â So I just tried them... and played a great deal!!!! (until I was too upfed with the bugs, that is.)Â I guess anyone wanting these games can just go to http://www.abandonware-france.org/then click "strategie" and UFO...(Anyone knowing an English equivalent of this great site?)Â Play a lot! And enjoy real life too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 (edited) i once tried the playstation version, but i couldn't find the game anywhere. A few years ago, I bought a big pile of old (and even some quite new ones) games really really cheap ($50 for about....50 games...X-com for $1?). Xcom: EU included. I've got Apoc and Interceptor on Bornholm, a small island i visited once. About....$10-15 each. Why the heck they were germen only, is beyond my understanding. Edited April 18, 2004 by mikker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minhtuan Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Why not try this best voted game? I wondered when surfing an abandonware site. After playing it (a week non-stop!) I immediately voted it the best game I ever come across. Warning: Addictive, could be harzadous to your health. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunsmountain Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 (edited) I hope this story amuzes you all. Winning a Magic: the Gathering tournament in 1995, won me the game. I remember I thought: WHAT a crappy game, just look at that simple cover! Im NEVER going to play this, what a STUPID prize. Those graphics will suck. One of the guys who bought the prize tried to convince me but i couldnt be swayed, and just didnt believe him. I almost traded it for 3 Magic cards, but something in me said: 'Well, I actually dont know the value yet. Let me wait and see, although that could take a while.'After getting an old Pentium 1 in my room in 1999, i decided to give that old CD-rom Dos version a go in Windows 95, friendly to DOS games btw. Because I didnt expect much I had little patience with the game. I didnt understand what was going on or what the game wanted me to do. I had just the CD and nothing else. No description, no manual printed out (it was/is an original CD). It was one of my first game CD's (if not THE first), and I used to install games using floppy disks (copied, of course). Games like Dune 2 and Civilization 1. They didnt have manuals either. Settlers. Battle Isle 2. Great games. From the pre-copy-protection era where you could easily hack and crack games... Things havent changed much since then  In the game, years went by, countries didnt leave (beginner), (because) sometimes i could get an UFO to crash land and go to the crash sites. But I couldnt down the large UFO's, and didnt switch to Avalanche missiles, i found them expensive and they blew up the small ones. I didnt research, because I didnt know how to, though i tried - i thought that researchers would do that themselves if i just paid them: Like in other games, like Civ. So I started projects but they took years to complete (no allocated men). I guessed that was normal and realistic even.I didnt manufacture, because why manufacture stuff you can buy, right? - I even selled my engineers and was disappointed that they didnt net any money."well at least i wont be paying their salary anymore, i guess that's a plus..." Monthly scores were low, but I didnt have any comparison: I thought I was doing pretty well. Most crash sites had a 1 level UFO, so I thought ALL ufo's had 1 level. They never got names because i never got HWD. Sometimes I would get a two-level UFO, imagine my surprise! I never heard of reaction fire, but I did use the buttons 'reserve for ...shot' and was not so bad tactically using human tech.When I found Heavy Plasma guns during tactic but the things didnt work. I was surprised I could see them in my inventory at all. And that I could sell them all, which i did. Each month, before the end. Guess when I checked the progress or new possible projects on research? Yep... Every month I would get a terror site and that would be the 'action' I thought, in the game. Judged by that standard, if there was no terror site: BORING month. (and a negative score, i knew i missed it). I tried to read UFOpaedia but all it told about was human tech. I didnt look on the CD-rom for a manual, again why would I? Acrobat what? It was just a nameless, unknown Earth in DOS graphics that you could play with.But "was I having fun?" I asked myself at one point. And the answer surprised me, it was yes. Even just spinning Earth around gave a nice feeling, and I would show my friends:"Here, look...""haha, cool"...(pause)..."so what's the purpose of the game?"*shrugs* "No idea. I think the game is trying to be realistic and make you paranoia, typical American thing 'y see. You can crash those UFO things and once a month you get a terror site. Research actually takes a lot of time, but its 2004 in the game now and it doesnt change much... so.. luckily you can speed up time""... boring game huh? Expensive?""no, for free""ah." And there had to be more if I couldnt get those large UFO's to crash land and the game allowed for more weapons to appear in my inventory, even though i couldnt use them. Still, 5 years for a motion scanner? You could fool me every time: "sorry sir Commander, these things just take time. We're sure you understand...""Yeah Im a nice guy, you guys take your time. Progress is low but you'll get it one day im sure""yes sir! *cough* sucker *cough*""oh that's a nasty cough you have there, shouldnt you take a holiday?etc. So I did one of my first searches on the internet. It was www.excite.com back then. I found an 67 page long FAQ and some smaller ones (2 or 3 page max). I copied some tables from the long one and read the smaller ones.... remember my patience for the game was still low. ... plasma?... blaster what?.... AVENGER.. huh? and what are all these base facilities?I can capture aliens? I need to research them? But that's not how Civ works... perhaps i forgot something. I get no progress.. oh i have to allocate ahh right... I made my own strategies based on the tables and got further into the game on beginner. And the rest, they say, is history. Edited April 29, 2004 by sunsmountain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonaleth Irenicus Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Macbeth. No, not the Shakespeare one. In my youth there was this game magazine Gameshow, and there was a great writer there, nicknamed Macbeth, and usually he liked the games that I did. He was mentioning UFO from time to time and comparing other games to it. When Terror From the Deep showed up, I just had to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 My mom and dad bought X-com when it first came (wow) and they beat it in about a week (wow, for me anyway) and then they let my uncle try it. Then he was on vacation in the UK sometime and got Enemy Unknown and he gave the CD to us in exchange for the floppies. And one time I was visiting and he gave the floppies to me.  Sometimes I'll play 1.00 from the floppies that were saved on a zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 My Highschool friends introduced my to it back in '93 (*GASP* already ten years ago!! )I've been hooked ever since, but I did love the improvement of TFD, some minor flaws corrected, better graphics... If only you could get past the complete RIDICULE of throwing grenades underwater, or the simple fact that it's a lot harder to walk underwater that to simply float around... Â I've not seen it's like since the DOS days are long gone, until I discovered the excitment that bubbled around it in the last few years... I would have bought the original if only it was still possible to find one somewhere :crying: Â But then I found where to DOWNLOAD IT!!!! :happybanana: An get back for old time's sake (even sent it to my long time friends ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 (...)Sadly i heard horrid things about apocalypse so to not ruin my feelings of the Xcom universe i have passed it over and stayed with the originals. I'm HIGHLY looking forward to playing Xenocide. I've been hoping someone would take the reins and revive this classic in a modern setting for too many years.   Same thing here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singleton Mosby Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 I do not know anymore, it was like 10 years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x0563511 Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 I didnt buy it. Long time ago i had a friend who had it, and i loved it (i was only like 11 too). Now, years later, i found it legally for free online! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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