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X-COM (or X-Com/XCom) is a science fiction video game franchise that began with a classic strategy game UFO: Enemy Unknown by Mythos Games and MicroProse in 1993 and ultimately spanned six finished and two cancelled games, as well as two novels, until 2002. An X-COM reboot series, entitled XCOM, was announced by 2K Games in 2010. It also directly inspired several other video games.
The X-COM core series consisted of four main games published by MicroProse: UFO: Enemy Unknown (also known as X-COM: UFO Defense and originally released in 1993-1994 for the PC, with later ports for the Amiga and Sony PlayStation), X-COM: Terror from the Deep (PC in 1995 and the PlayStation in 1996), X-COM: Apocalypse (PC, 1997) and X-COM: Interceptor (PC, 1998).
The premise of the franchise is that a mysterious alien invasion has began in 1999 (a near future at the time of the first game's release). In response, a coalition of funding nations create an elite clandestine paramilitary organization codenamed X-COM (an abbreviation of "Extraterrestrial Combat Unit") as mankind's last hope. The player is charged with leading this secret force, tasked with a mission to engage and research the alien threat. At the end of the successful game, the X-COM manages to capture and reverse engineer enough of the invaders' technology to decisively turn it against them. The sequels took the fight against new alien invasions underwater (Terror from the Deep, set in 2040), into a futuristic megacity (Apocalypse, set in 2074), and eventually into space (Interceptor, set in 2067, which actually makes it a prequel to Apocalypse).
Keywords: 1960s, alien, alien-invasion, government-agency, infiltration, prequel
I know this girl she looked good in her clothes
She? d get me drunk, take me home after shows
And we? d go through the moves like pros
We? d drive around in the Hollywood hills
We? d go to clubs, get addicted to pills
And we? d dance til the lights came up
Another girl fell in love with a song
She held her breath but she held it too long
And they say she started turning blue
I blew her off, she was only nineteen
She? d call and yell at my message machine
Til the tape ran out and rewound
Moving on is hard to do
Hard on me as it was on you
I should have called I should have
Done so many things that I didn? t do
If only you knew
I know this girl, liked to keep her plate full
She? d scratch our eyes with the wool that she pulled
From her sack, but I kept crawling back
She liked her men juggled three at a time
She? d be with one, keeping two on the line
And we knew, but what else could we do
We kept it light cause she felt like we should
We fooled ourselves into thinking we could
For a while, but then she fell in love
It freaked her out and one day she was gone
I swore to God I would never move on
But I did, and that? s just how it is
Moving on is hard to do
Hard on me as it was on you
I should have called I should have
Done so many things that I didn? t do