Throwback Thursday for 7th May

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We are really rolling back the clock for Throwback Thursday this week, back to the beginning of it all. In the original Command & Conquer there was always this mysterious and strange looking object that could been seen on the maps during the single player campaigns. For years fans debated, speculated and theorised about what this object was. It basically became known as the "crashed UFO". Years later many people believed it was an actual UFO or a Scrin ship. Turns out it wasn't either of these, Westwood didn't think up the Scrin idea until a few years later anyway. The mystery was solved as far back 2007 by a former Westwood artist, he confirmed that it was simply a canopy of a wrecked helicopter. It was also said to be "a crappy piece of art and doesn't even fit in with the art style". More info about this can be found here (English Translation). So in the end it wasn't much of mystery, no conspiracy about it or fore-shadowing the storyline of later Command & Conquer games in the Tiberium universe. It just some out of place art. But we still consider it part of the Command & Conquer nostalgia.

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