X-COM: UFO DEFENSE / TERROR FROM THE DEEP (1994, 1995)

Microprose

My compadre, Casey, subscribed to PC Gamer back in the day so that is how I came across X-Com: Terror From the Deep. The demo was included on a disk, but it only included one measly combat scene. Nevertheless, I was impressed and I knew one day I would own this game. And that one day finally came, and I tore through both the first and 2nd X-Com games without mercy. I even brought my other friend, Josh, into this one. I think this might have been the first real game that he had gotten on his new computer.

X-Com 2 was much harder than number 1, but I think number one was much more fun because of the atmosphere. Plus number two had these annoying cruise-ship missions that last just waaay too long to be that fun, but I would still recommend the game simply for the challenge of finishing it. Everyone remembers "Where is the very LAST guy, huh!? I know he's here SOMEWHERE!"

There were three later X-Com games, and 3 wasn't that bad, but it isn't worth mentioning it here. 4 and 5? They just damaged the X-Com name.