Spectrum Holobyte – Video Game News, Reviews, Walkthroughs And Guides | GamingBolt https://gamingbolt.com Get a Bolt of Gaming Now! Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:24:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Original X-COM Was Cancelled But Carried on Development in Secret https://gamingbolt.com/original-x-com-was-cancelled-but-carried-on-development-in-secret https://gamingbolt.com/original-x-com-was-cancelled-but-carried-on-development-in-secret#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:24:46 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=149268 X-COM UFO Defense
Apparently the very first X-COM game, which has since been renowned as a classic, was never meant to be. During a talk at GDC which functioned as a postmortem for the game, series creator Julian Gollop revealed that the game was briefly cancelled in the middle of development but carried on unbeknownst to the higher-ups.

According to Gollop, when Spectrum Holobyte bought Microprose in 1993, it decided to officially cancel X-COM: UFO Defense because it felt like the game wasn’t impressive enough. Microprose continued development however.

As Gollop statds, “What happened was, that in Christmas 1993 Spectrum Holobyte wanted a product from Microprose UK for the end of their financial quarter, which was in March 1994. And [Microprose head] Pete Moreland said, ‘Well, you know this project you told us to cancel? Well, we still got it.”

And the rest, as they say, is history. Holobye, impressed by X-COM’s success, wanted a sequel to the game after its original launch.

Source: 1MoreCastle

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