Background

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)