 So, I don't remember this game very well. I played it obsessively as a kid, but not only did I have a pirated copy, I downloaded it off of a BBS via a modem with a crack, but I didn't have the manual, so I had no idea how the game worked and I figured it out intuitively for years, like just playing it as a kid at night. Even worse, I'd never heard these sound effects until I was an adult because I didn't have a sound card that XCOM would work with. So, I played the game silently with no references. I did beat it several times at most of the difficulty levels. So, what I'm gonna try to do here is see what happens if I play this game on a reasonable difficulty now, so many years later. I'm not allowed to look anything up, no references, if I gotta remember how mechanics work and use the game to figure that out. No safety saves of any kind, and if this goes south, it just goes south. So, let's see how this goes. I'm not gonna do super commentary, I'm pretty much just gonna play. So, don't. I also, the nature of streaming a DOSBox game is that I can't really interact with the other monitors. I can't actually see what any of you might be saying to me. All right, let's do it. I'm a veteran, let's go. And let's start in Europe. All right, let's see if I remember how to play this game. Guess I should build some stuff in my base. That is a huge expenditure early on. Can't store shit until I upgrade the base. And that's all my storage. Awesome. I've already spent most of my money. Let's see how this is going. Auto-canonink. Oh, I can't put it back. I need to get more living facilities soon too. All right, let's make Interceptor 1. Awesome. This is my standoff destruction interceptor. I haven't rearm you yet, let's leave you as is. I'm telling you, if they ever wanted to make an Evangelion game, just make it this same original game, just Ava-themed, and updated for modern sensibilities. Maybe that laser pistol before I do anything else. Let's see how much I can actually fit. Oh, it needs more cannon rounds than I bought. Definitely need my first missions to be very successful in this game. Let's not worry about medikits yet. And let's start making these because I can always sell them for cash. Let's go! Aggressive attack, let's go. All right, no safety saves, so let's see how this game goes. All right, you don't need anything except I would like you to carry one pistol. You can carry less ammo. Good lord. Let's start you with the high explosives. So, Stefan's got the high explosives. And the regular ones. Maria's just got regular ammo instead of a grenade. Let's have you carry a sidearm. And it's the first mission. Half of you are going to die, so whatev. Let's use my expendable. All right, mind the bottom corner of the map. Shit, no edge. Oh, I'm at the top corner of the map. Ah, shit. Let's wait and see if anything shoots at it. All right, here's hoping no grenades, and let's let the heavy weapon guys just queue up. Oh, okay, I see him. All outside. Let's see if I can see him. I should have brought some fucking flares, but I'm stupid and I didn't. Let's get the heavy weapons people out and ready. Just hide under the Sky Ranger. Let's hope no grenades show up. Ah, no grenades. Come on, no grenades. Pissed his list. Actually, auto-shot, I can do a lot more of them, and I gotta cut down on the number of aliens. Good job, Sarah. Badly. Flares didn't buy fire after a great start here. Screw it. This could be badly, but whatever. You just duck and hang out there. First things first. Spot him. Let's let you just spot. Gotta remember to buy flares. That's something I forgot to do. He's up there on the hill. Get closer. I'd rather him rather the enemy shoot this guy up. Wow, Sektoid. Wow. Maria has the non-explosive rounds. Ah, it's only gotta get close with the explosives. Let's try it. Stefan, what a shot. What a shot. Was he down one? Not great. Not terrible. First of all, the sandiaries. High explosives. Sandiaries. Got about 70 grenades. And a bunch of electroflares. We've got one laser pistol. Oh, I should recruit some more people too. Find any plasma rifle clips. Gotta risk it. It's too early in the game. I can't let the terrorist side go. Bad news. Loud until the sun comes. Let's start fires. That'll just make this easier. Not carry too much ammo. Yeah, that is way too much ammo. Yeah, you can still be a fire starter. Let's just make sure you have enough ammo. You definitely need a pistol here. Large rocket in there. Alright, let's see how this goes. No safety saves. Okay. Nope. Not the back corner. It's all map. Oh, that's the edge. And that's the edge. So if I sweep this house, that can be a base of opera- Let's secure perimeter. Really? Floaters? That's a shame. I want to say those guys are weak to fire. Okay, I'm glad I didn't blow up that building. He can't see him. Now he can. Oh no, it's that other guy. Send this guy up here anyway. Even if that house is safe, I want to snipe out that window. Okay, I am in a lot better shape than I could have been now. You will join the sweep squad. There's only one window there. I guess I can shoot a hole in the wall. I don't have that much ammo. Alright, you will go in there and you will join a sweep squad that's going to go around that side of the map. So you can join the sweep squad. Alright, who is this? Maria has... Sendieres. I should shoot something soon. Sweep Squad 2. These guys are all going to go that way. Oh, two! Both of them are over there. Get to the next round without too many casualties. Let's just blow everything up over there. Civilians be damned. I'm going to bank on there not being aliens in that house. So I can set up basically an overwatch quicker. It's the rest of you. Sweep Squad. As for you. Oh shit, okay, let's sendiery over there. Clean shot through the sky ranger. It's going to take me around. See you. Hope you don't see anything there for next round. I should take a pot shot at it. That's going to be fun. Send more soldiers this way. Deal with that looming threat. Come over here. Maybe I can blow up one of these buildings. Oh, that was a waste of actions, but... So it goes. There's two of them over there. Alright, and sendieries. Oh, I'm pretty sure those guys are really weak to fire. Oh, oh, oh. You two just stay in that building. Still got time for a snapshot. You just hang out right where you are. You are at maximum... ...cautiousness. And you... Let's go see who else is hanging out. Maybe I can set that building on fire completely. Alright, these guys... Let's just get you in position. Think that was real good. Is he really that weak? Let's test this. I'm curious about the... So my auto-jet accuracy is 14%. If I ditch this... Yeah, so holding something in your hand does hurt your accuracy. Tasting these things demise. Oh, there's two of them over there. I'm here. Let's put this just in the middle. Alright, let's hope that fire doesn't kill all those civilians. Oh, we send the next building over. There's two of them. Oh, floaters. Tank, you can survive this. Good job, tank. Got the guy who's right next to us and about to maul us. Hopefully soon I will have enough laser weapons. Do not worry about this. Awesome. Well, maybe the Ring of Fire will help. We're just too overburdened, dude. Oh, that got him. I'll have to break through it all. Oh, yet another one. That might be a better use of your... ...skills. Throw it next turn so just don't move. Just hang out there. Let's just keep that tank there. There it is. It's gonna get that civilian. Let's hope that's the last one. Sorry, buddy. I forgot about that. There it is. It's in that house. It's busted into the complex. I think I can send these two guys in relatively safely. Oh, shit, he's right. Oh, there's two of them right there. How can he see? One, two. There's either two or three of them left then. I'm pretty sure that area is swept. If something comes up from behind, that's just a shit. Let's get him closer to be able to blow up the other side of this. Same with him after I drop some stuff. Okay, I think there's three. There's three. I think those are the last three. He's still a grenade. Yes, he did. All right, there's just that one more. I know where he is. He's hiding in that house. And he's scared it alone. He's gotta be the last one. He's panicking. Wait, that civilian might survive. Okay. All right, buddy, don't pass out. Oh, there's two left. Still one left. That's the air is already in. So let's you sweep in. You get ready to check the warehouse in case that isn't everybody. Oh, did I make them look backwards? Nope, good. And you be ready to toss a grenade. All right, he's up there. I'm pretty sure he's the last one. Just in case. Yes, fight with the tank. And let's hope there aren't any civilians in there. There's only one of them, so... Let's hope he's still panicked. So he shoots that guy. It's gonna be a pain in the ass to kill him. I'll bet that's it. Oh, he was unconscious. I gotta build one of those. That would have been awesome. Kill the 11 aliens. We recovered three live aliens. I must have knocked them all out with smoke. God damn it. He's feeling killed by aliens. He's feeling killed by XCOM. I'll save my people, okay. All right, let's get ahead of the game and build some alien containment. Let's get ahead of the game here. Let's make this a defensible little base. A little hangar hanging off the end. All right, I need more living space. Do not disengage. Doing some sort of non-military mission. Main mission. I'll get to the next month, reset my funding, and then that'll be the end of my stream for now. I'll do this again another day. Let's laser rifle it up. I'm gonna save my game, not as a safety save. In case anything happens to DOSBox. I could just shoot it right away, but let's lay the land first. Am I in the back corner? I am not. But that's the corner. That looks like he's armed with heavy plasma. That's trouble. I'm not that strong. I could look at these soldiers and see who I should give this thing to. That looks like heavy plasma for sure. And this is dangerous. Some of them are in the UFO or just exited the UFO. Sorry, Sergeant. There are some people in that building. Let's blow it up. That confirms the plan. First, three of you are going to go around this side. Now that I've seen a guy over here, let's fully scout out this area. You're out of time units now. Brett Jones is gonna die. If you're gonna die anyway, let's go distract the alien. You get ready to blow up this building. I need a regular soldier to go with you. Check out that back door. I think I need one more soldier to do the full sweep. Oh, crap. Just for security. So you just run around the back and join this team. Team A is gonna sweep around the back of this building, make sure there aren't any aliens. Meet everybody at the front. B is gonna be these three and they're gonna sweep around this side. Everyone else is gonna go up the middle. Yep. Sergeant or sacrifice is noted. Good job, Sektoid. He's in the line of fire if that Sektoid moves. Two, then, are gonna be the lucky winner of the run around the back just in case squad. I doubt there's any aliens over here. I think there'll be many aliens over here. The armor's pretty damaged, so... Pretty sure. The rest of them are inside of it. Go upstairs and see them. Oh, I can get on the roof. Perfect. I should have this guy. I'll also go in on the roof just in case. Oops, that was the long way around. Well, let's trust there's nothing over there. There's a building on the other side. That building worries me significantly. Alright, I only hear UFO noises now, so I think all inside the UFO. Let's purge this thing. After I get plasma and start using plasma weapons I've recovered, I've definitely got to get some armor. If I had to guess, there are one or two aliens inside of the UFO, and that's it. I'm gonna actually drive this thing all the way around into that building. This has got to be the only two. Alright, power supply's gone, but I think I got a bunch of alloys, and the ship controls are intact. In case, let's secure the perimeter. Pretty sure it's done. Ooh, good thing I was cautious. That guy'll have a grenade. Probably like the navigator or something. And let's just send this over to the ship. Just in case it doesn't go well in the UFO, let's get some reinforcements coming in. And I misclicked with you before. That's the end. Oh, there's yet another one! No! There are a lot of aliens alive on this one. No walked into the plasma. Come on, if you kill him, she will survive. I lost more people than I hoped on this mission. We might survive, just don't get hit. If I kill that one alien, you will live. These heavy cannons just kind of suck. Let's keep just one of these. Recruit the last soldier. An early mine probe. Spend everything. Sell some crap. Just not sell the mine probe. Those are hard to come by. If it's dicey, we'll just bug out. Ah, I should get rid of those last rifles. At least I get them off the Sky Ranger. I need more pages of stuff. I can't make more pages, so you're gonna have to carry too much stuff. Guess you can drop it on the first round. Oh, it is night. I like one sectoid. The wreckage has got to be around here somewhere. There it is. Plasma rifle. Yeah, those things can only hold one alien. And now I can use plasma. Plasma cannon. That's... Is plasma cannon the one that goes... I think it'll give me a weapon for my ships. I should do the sectoid corpse really quick, because then I can sell it. Ground mission. Aggressive attack. It's not my good interceptor, but I think I can take you down. Shit. Where is it going? I don't have any defenses at this tiny base yet. Let's get started on these. Alright, last mission. I guess those guys will have to drop stuff for their first round. I should get rid of those missiles just to make this easier. Hey buddy. Hey friend. Alright, so UFOs right there. I'm not in the back corner, but I wonder if there's anything behind me. Alright, they've partially abandoned the ship. Alright, you won't be able to shoot, so you just stay here in case you get an opportunity to shoot. I don't know if you can see this guy. Oh, you can. This will not take long. You're right there. The top's busted out. I can just toss a grenade in there. Out of it, whatever. Alright, that's enough of a stream for today. The space right now exists. Holy. Intercept UFOs in North America. I'll build some defenses there and some living quarters later. The only ways aliens can get in if they invade it are these two spots. So now I'm going to build a line around and build everything else over here. Let's save the game. No safety saves. Alright, that's the end of that. Alright, yeah, I can't actually see the chats until I come out of the game. And now if I see how the stream is all zoomed in there, that's the annoyance of streaming these old DOSBox games. Good times. I will catch up on the chat and see you guys when I do the next round.