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Forse non hai ben chiaro cosa sia stato Ufo: Enemy unknown (xcom ufo defence in USA). Magari tu sei troppo giovane. Fu come una bomba nel mercato pc.
dalla wiki
The game was released to very positive reviews and commercial success, selling more than 600,000 units on the PC DOS platform, not counting the later ports—for the Amiga platforms and the PlayStation—and re-releases. Half of the game's net sales were in the United States, a rarity for a European title at the time. Gollop has attributed the game's North American success to its title (X-COM), as the television series The X-Files had premiered a year earlier. The game earned the Gollop brothers just over £1 million in royalties.[2] The game became very popular also in Russia, even as there were no royalties from that market as it was only distributed there via software piracy.[17] In 2009, Edge called it "the title that first brought turn-based wargaming to the masses.
Per capirci nello stesso anno System Shock ha venduto 170000 copie,
Edit: Poi chiaro ai tempi il mercato era dominato piu' dalle console (ed amiga anche se in declino)