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== Backstory ==
 
== Backstory ==
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The Gollop brothers RIPPED the story of X-COM STRAIGHT from today's HEADLINES! ... Of the National Enquirer, that is.
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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".
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/ufos.html
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http://www.subversiveelement.com/SubversiveElement.html
  
 
== Real life equivalents ==
 
== Real life equivalents ==
  
 
[[Equivalents]] surmised by [[User:JellyfishGreen|JellyfishGreen]] 11:54, 25 Apr 2005 (BST)
 
[[Equivalents]] surmised by [[User:JellyfishGreen|JellyfishGreen]] 11:54, 25 Apr 2005 (BST)

Revision as of 16:25, 29 April 2005

Game Design notes

Published in 1994 by Microprose, developed by Mythos Games, chief designers the Gollop brothers.

Mythos preceded X-COM with Laser Squad and have recently produced Laser Squad Nemesis.

An Official Strategy Guide was published - details?

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 JellyfishGreen 11:54, 25 Apr 2005 (BST)