Excellent article! Never played the original X-COM and plan to do so soon. I played the third one, Apocalypse, obsessively and beat it in a couple of weeks on

Excellent article! Never played the original X-COM and plan to do so soon. I played the third one, Apocalypse, obsessively and beat it in a couple of weeks one summer. It seems that I end up loving most any game that has a rotating Earth in the interface (the latest being Microsoft Flight Simulator). Strongest memories is the panic when seeing a headhugger appear close by, getting attached to the individual commandos, and enjoying the destructability of the multi-floor building environments using the various weapons.