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WCDT strips 3676 to 3680 (12th to 16th February 2018)
ckridge:
The bottom says "Xcom joke." Help? This is not my field of geekery.
OldGoat:
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--- Quote from: OldGoat on 11 Feb 2018, 23:21 ---It wasn't really stone tablets. My parents had a Philco 78 rpm phonograph, steel needle and all, and a bunch of pre-vinyl shelack records. The things were brittle as hell and would shatter with scarcely any provocation. The first LP machine in the house was a Webcor portable with a two-sided stylus, steel for 78s and diamond for vinyl 33s, 45s, and 16s (never have seen a 16 in the flesh to this day).
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Yep,
We had an old 78 player and a nice pile of discs too which my parents 'inherited' from my grandparents.
I used to play the hell out of those old discs!
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Here's one my folks had. (If that fellow's voice sounds familiar, it's Mel "Bug Bunny and a bunch of others" Blanc.)
The collection wasn't just goofy stuff, either. I remember a bunch of Strauss Waltzes and other classical stuff, too. (Did they have green labels? That was a long time ago, and they were old then.)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: ckridge on 12 Feb 2018, 08:50 ---The bottom says "Xcom joke." Help? This is not my field of geekery.
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XCom, first published in the early 1990s as UFO - Enemy Unknown is a turn-based strategy game where you command a UN task-force that is attempting to repel an overt alien invasion of a contemporary Earth, a task complicated by the activities of a secretive cult trying to exploit the war to increase their own power. 'Cyberdisc' is the identifying name of an alien tank-like combat drone used in the latter phases of the game.
Pennepasta:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Feb 2018, 08:54 ---
--- Quote from: ckridge on 12 Feb 2018, 08:50 ---The bottom says "Xcom joke." Help? This is not my field of geekery.
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XCom, first published in the early 1990s as UFO - Enemy Unknown is a turn-based strategy game where you command a UN task-force that is attempting to repel an overt alien invasion of a contemporary Earth, a task complicated by the activities of a secretive cult trying to exploit the war to increase their own power. 'Cyberdisc' is the identifying name of an alien tank-like combat drone used in the latter phases of the game.
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I believe it was called XCom in the US, even the original? Being a Brit, though, I just had UFO: EU. The classic game of moving soldiers out of the dropship to get mown down one by one before they could do anything.
Pilchard123:
And there's some remakes/sequels/spiritual successors released in 2012 and 2016. I haven't played the originals myself, so I can't really compare them to the new ones, but they're pretty good. Julian Gollop, who made the original ones is also working on Phoenix Point, which smells a bit like it's in the middle of the two.
--- Quote from: Pennepasta on 12 Feb 2018, 09:05 ---I believe it was called XCom in the US, even the original?
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X-COM, with a hyphen. I don't exactly know why it was decided that the hyphen should be removed, but searching for XCOM will get you the modern ones and X-COM will get the old ones.
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