[Tinker]

Complete X-com series pack for a low price of $4.99 at steam a wkend special...the old days of gaming...had to get for $4.99

 

[HeadRusch]

I love this, but then I remember how impossibly hard that game was for the novice...and would probably still kick my butt today.


Hmmm..I'd better go look into this

 

[Tinker]

Head, wonder where you were. Thought this might bring you out of your hinernation...

You can almost follow the development of graphics thru all the iterations of the X-com games. Good history lesson for some...and reliving their innocent years of gaming for others (like me). Micro Prose...many of the best air sims I played were by them.

 

[ferrisg]



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Originally Posted by Tinker /forum/post/15525745


Head, wonder where you were. Thought this might bring you out of your hinernation...

You can almost follow the development of graphics thru all the iterations of the X-com games. Good history lesson for some...and reliving their innocent years of gaming for others (like me). Micro Prose...many of the best air sims I played were by them.

Since I haven't played old school games on Steam, how do these work? Weren't the first couple of Xcom games DOS based? Do they run in a ridiculously low resolution or does Steam do some sort of emulation or upscaling or anything?

 

[Tinker]

lo rez, but they do run fine on my systems using XP.