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-== Game Design notes==
-Published in 1994 by [http://www.microprose.com Microprose] (bought by Atari), developed by Mythos Games, chief designers brothers Nick and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Gollop Julian Gollop].
-Mythos preceded X-COM with Laser Squad and have recently produced [http://www.lasersquadnemesis.com/ Laser Squad Nemesis].
-An ''Official Strategy Guide'' was written by Dave Ellis and is available on [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1559587644/qid%3D1121087539/026-3141432-0820461 Amazon].
-== Backstory ==
-The Gollop brothers RIPPED the story of X-COM STRAIGHT from today's HEADLINES! ... Of the National Enquirer, that is.
-Links for the conspiratorially inclined. Warning, may contain elerium. CIA may be tracing your web-browsing...but you probably suspected that already. Could an alien war really be covered up? Search term: "Robert Lazar".
-http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/ufos.html
-http://www.subversiveelement.com/SubversiveElement.html
-== Real life equivalents ==
-[[Equivalents]] surmised by [[User:JellyfishGreen|JellyfishGreen]] 11:54, 25 Apr 2005 (BST)