X-Com and all its glory

[dekkarax]

didn't alliance have some sort of 'lost in space' crossed with 'above and beyond' feel to it?
a shame they didn't bring that one out...it would be sweeter still if it was all Elite style too. (or what was that game, where earth was living under a red slave shield, and when you finally get to earth you find the "jailors" gone?)

Star Control

 

[oranger]

ohhh right! I remember now, I eventually dropped that game because the black spidership thingies kept killing me and I don't lose gracefully...riiight..
That game was so cool, maybe I'll dig it up later.

 

[darkenedroom]

You should. They are good.

The Midwych Cuckoos was filmed ... badly ... as Village Of The Damned.

The Kraken Wakes will remind you of X-Com 2 and a few other things.

The Day Of The Triffids is an excellent book about humanity in a collapsing society. There's a film of the same name that has some superficial similarities in plot, but noone's ever made a film of the book.

Trouble With Lichen is about people and society and how they respond to things.

Web is the creepiest, crawliest and bleakest of the lot. It's also about ===><=== this far from coming true, compared to the others.

The BBC made a 6 or 7 part mini-series of The Day of the Triffids, it was made in the early 80's. I had forgotten about it until I found it on a video site linked from MSN. Might be worth a look if you're interested?

 

[Carnagath]

I played Apocalypse when it was released and I was like 15 at the time, I remember distinctly that it was the first time that I stayed up all night playing a game hoping I wouldn't be discovered by my parents, and went to school the next day feeling quite dizzy. Then the weekend came and I slept probably a total of 5 hours during those 2 days, once I got the game to the point where you

Spoiler

attack the alien planet

and the difficulty ramps up to a barely manageable insanity, I was officially unable to stop playing. What an amazing game.