Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on a throwback gaming binge. After finishing up The Ur-Quan Masters, I found the entire X-Com series on sale on Steam for a mere $2, which was impossible to pass up.  The original X-Com has always been near the top of my list of favorite games of all time, and being able to get the whole series in an easily-playable format was a golden opportunity.  In fact, I was so happy about it, I decided to make a gift of it to a friend who had never played any of them, explaining that it was vitally important that he play the original right away.

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