Once upon a time, I loved comic books. Even the ones with superheroes.
I loved them so much, that in my free time, I created a little video game about them.
It was called "X-Assault", and it was a strategy game featuring the characters from Marvel Comics' X-Men line of superheroes.
The game became enormously successful, by amateur internet freeware standards, and quickly gained a lot of attention from fans, writers, artists, reporters, magazines...
... and, finally, from Marvel's lawyers.
That was when I received the pretty letter with the big picture of Spider-Man swinging toward me, kindly advising me that if I did not cease and desist making this free game and giving Marvel free advertising and promotion for their comics, I would be sued.
And that was kind of the end of X-Assault (as well as the end of my comic-reading, and y'know, I haven't looked back since).
But there are still a lot of X-Assault fans out there, believe it or not (I know because they keep e-mailing me). And X-Assault wasn't really a finished product as it was when Marvel stomped on it - only part of the story was told, only some of the gameplay secrets had been revealed, and the big mystery behind the game was never cleared up.
Until now, that is. Granted, if you weren't one of the relatively few thousands who played X-Assault, this will mean nothing to you. If you were, though, hopefully you'll find it kind of cool.
So, by popular demand, here it is: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About X-Assault. Yes, there are spoilers within. But you already knew that, didn't you?
Let me also add here, for the dedicated, that it's been years since I even looked at the X-A code and data, so forgive me if I'm a little off on some of this.
The Complete Playable Character List
The Complete Adversary List
The Chapters
Some Scripts
The Master Assaulter's Checklist
The Old-School NixonVision-Style FAQ
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