User talk:Danial

Why I'm Here

Where It All Began

In '95 (grade 11) I got my first computer. It was a 486 33MHz with 4MB RAM and a whopping 124MB HDD!! One of my friends at school was quite the geek and gave me a cracked version of this game called UFO: Enemy Unknown so I had something to play on my newly acquired toy. All I'll say is that this lead to many a late night!

The Evolution

A few years later in '97 I started University. I bought a new computer: a Pentium. Not sure about the specs, but it was better than the 486 none-the-less. For whatever reason, I decided to install UFO onto it and got back into the swing of things. Having access to the Internet at Uni, I found a few sites relating to the game and my interest was renewed. During Uni, I learnt of scriptwriting and decided that UFO would make a cool movie, so I started toying around with ideas, which kept feeding my interest for the following years.

The Conclusion

On the 16th of November 2003, I signed up to XCTC and the constant discussion on the forums continued to feed my X-COM fandom, and has done to this very day. Besides the few times my computers have crashed, there hasn't been a week where I haven't checked the forums to see what's going on in X-COM land. My interest in UFO:EU is stronger now than it ever has been and I can't see it going away any time in the near future.