X-Com inspired games and more!

[Slaughter]

Feel like nothing happens in the X-Com community these days? Feel desperation stalking at every corner? We know how you feel, and thanks to Zombie we've done something about it! Salvation in the form of our X-Com links section is here!

 

X-Force: Fight For Destiny is heavily inspired by X-Com. UFO Alien Invasion is heavily inspired by X-Com. UFO 2000 adds multiplayer to X-Com! And they all have playable versions out! Did I mention that X-Com: Tactical is a free X-Com board game!?!

 

So as you can see there is no reason for panic. The X-Com community has lived for over 10 years, and we shall last at least another 10! If you see any links missing, or have comments in general, use this topic.

 

[Zombie]

Now that is a link section! Excellent job, Slaughter!

 

I think we should all feel proud, as I have never seen a site with so many workable links in one location! Just fantastic!

 

I have been searching the net for TFTD links, but it seems as though there isn't much besides the multi-sites I posted a while back. When I get some time, I'll look around for links to Interceptor, Apocalypse, Enforcer and Email X-COM.

 

Another thing which might interest everyone here: while doing my searches, I always noticed that the StrategyCore forums were either mentioned, or linked to directly by most X-COM websites. And very often, there was nothing but high praise. Cheers, guys! This site rocks!

[Slaughter]

Glad to hear that. I found one thing I didn't like however. When searching for X-Com on Google, StrategyCore didn't come up on any of the first pages. Pete?

[Zombie]

Hi folks! I just wanted to mention that I just did a major overhaul on the links page again. Some of the info was outdated, some of the links were wrong and some links were missing. What's new? A lot!

• 3 download sites
  
• 4 new "games in progress" (or completed)
  
• MobyGames link
  
• A link to X-COM porn (Sorry, just had to add this. Don't visit it if you are easily offended or underage).
  
• TV Tropes (how could we forget about this)?
  
• Kotaku (blog site)
  
• Link to lparchive with a bunch of "Let's Play" posts
  
• XCOM Trilogy UFOPedia
  
• Jenny's Website
  
• Hatfarm's Website
  
• John Broomhall's Website
  
• Drew Northcott's Website
  
• Tim White's Website
  
• Spacing, to make things easier to read
  

The page isn't finished by any means, but it's a major improvement. Keep checking back as I'll probably be doing some more revisions this week. On deck next: YouTube videos. There are a bunch of popular "Let's Play" videos I'd like to include as well as a few other gems.

 

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Submissions? Post here and I'll address them asap.

 

- Zombie

[NKF]

I think you might want to really stress that X-Com Porn most definitely takes you to an adult site with ads to match. It's far-far beyond my idea which I used to joke with Byron from XCommand about back in the day. That is, plain old pictures of Sectoids as they were but in easily-taken-out-of-context poses.

 

Tropes, now there's a site I hadn't seen in years. Stumbled on it briefly ages ago, thought it was funny, then forgot about it.

 

- NKF

[Zombie]

I think you might want to really stress that X-Com Porn most definitely takes you to an adult site with ads to match. It's far-far beyond my idea which I used to joke with Byron from XCommand about back in the day. That is, plain old pictures of Sectoids as they were but in easily-taken-out-of-context poses.

 

I updated some of the wording to be bold. Does that help? Can't seem to make the words in color, I think it's unsupported in html these days and must be encoded in css styles.

 

- Zombie

[Thorondor]

Someone has been busy dusting things off and removing the cobwebs. Good stuff, Zombie!

 

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Can't seem to make the words in color, I think it's unsupported in html these days (...)

 

The official term they use is "deprecated" I think , and you're likely quite right that such niceties were finally fully shifted over to the CSS realm.