Sightings in other fandoms
Anything referring to X-Com or has elements from a X-com in another game, or fandom, go here!
Sound In Pokemon?
I was watching some old skool pokemon the other day, and while watching episode 22 "Abra and The Psychic Pokemon" I heard a sound from x-com as the kids go through the gym doors! To hear fpr yourself go here: http://www.animegiant.com/pokemon-series/ then click on playlist at the bottom. Scroll along till you find the aforementioned episode, Then at 7:10 and roughly 7:14 or 7:15, listen as they go through the doors! I can't desribe the sound, and I have no idea what game its from, but I instantly though X-Com when I heard it!
- Actually, X-Com uses a lot of stock industry sound effects. For example, in UFO: the hovertank uses the siren from the Inspector Gadget opening theme. The plasma beam sounds like the Doom series BFG9000 (along with one of the deathscreams pre v1.4 that sounds like the death scream of one of the tougher Doom enemies). Some door opening sounds and energy weapon blasts can be heard in big budget movies and TV series like Star Wars and Star Trek. Millions of cartoons not-withstanding. Also check out a few of the stock sound effect packs that come with some early version of Windows - they've got a lot of the menu sound effects that are used in TFTD. Still, it's much fun spotting these wherever you can. - NKF 14:29, 15 June 2008 (PDT)
There was a thread somewhere on SC which covered this, but try as I might I can't find it. - Bomb Bloke 04:22, 16 June 2008 (PDT)
In Civilization
In Civ II the Sectoid made it into one of the short videos associated with one of the wonders. Don't ask me which, can't remember, I think it was the SETI one. Only certain versions of the game included the videos on the disc.
There was also an expansion pack, Fantastic Worlds, which included an entire X-Com scenario.
Civ IV included (will include?) a homage in the form of Afterworld, included with the Beyond the Sword expansion.
X-Gum
According to XCommand, this stuff was actually sold by Uniconfis Corporation (See link for higher resolution originals).
