Ahhhhhh Elite
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Just surfing aimlessly at lunch and ended up looking at http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/[^]. Just HOW GREAT was that game?!?!?!?!?! The best computer game ever, and all in 22K of memory. If only the authors hadn't had a MAJOR fallout we might be playing on XP - trading arms and narcotics between planets in a state of anarchy while taking out allcomers with the best weapons money could buy. Yours in hiding as I still have fugitive status since a rather unfortunate slave trading incident in 1985. You haven't seen me, right! Commander Jameson. Shoot the craft's wing off so the pilot ejects in a capsule. You can then capture him using fuel scoops and sell him to slave traders..........DOH! that's what got me into this trouble in the first place!
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Just surfing aimlessly at lunch and ended up looking at http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/[^]. Just HOW GREAT was that game?!?!?!?!?! The best computer game ever, and all in 22K of memory. If only the authors hadn't had a MAJOR fallout we might be playing on XP - trading arms and narcotics between planets in a state of anarchy while taking out allcomers with the best weapons money could buy. Yours in hiding as I still have fugitive status since a rather unfortunate slave trading incident in 1985. You haven't seen me, right! Commander Jameson. Shoot the craft's wing off so the pilot ejects in a capsule. You can then capture him using fuel scoops and sell him to slave traders..........DOH! that's what got me into this trouble in the first place!
I never quiet understood why nobody has managed to succesfully create a worthy sequel to the game. The original Elite is a classic and I played the Spectrum version for months and the first PC version for the Amstrad 1512 got played even longer. Elite+ was okay but never captured the originals glories. The less said about the Braben sequels the better. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Just surfing aimlessly at lunch and ended up looking at http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/[^]. Just HOW GREAT was that game?!?!?!?!?! The best computer game ever, and all in 22K of memory. If only the authors hadn't had a MAJOR fallout we might be playing on XP - trading arms and narcotics between planets in a state of anarchy while taking out allcomers with the best weapons money could buy. Yours in hiding as I still have fugitive status since a rather unfortunate slave trading incident in 1985. You haven't seen me, right! Commander Jameson. Shoot the craft's wing off so the pilot ejects in a capsule. You can then capture him using fuel scoops and sell him to slave traders..........DOH! that's what got me into this trouble in the first place!
Weird! I was just thinking about that game a couple nights ago, but I couldn't remember what its name was. I remember it was such a Pain to get the ship rotating at the same speed and alignment with the stations dock. After about an hour, I finally figured out how to get it aligned and could dock the ship at anytime. But it was a great game for the time and amazingly small! I think I'll start up one of those emulator versions and go back to my childhood... RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Just surfing aimlessly at lunch and ended up looking at http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/[^]. Just HOW GREAT was that game?!?!?!?!?! The best computer game ever, and all in 22K of memory. If only the authors hadn't had a MAJOR fallout we might be playing on XP - trading arms and narcotics between planets in a state of anarchy while taking out allcomers with the best weapons money could buy. Yours in hiding as I still have fugitive status since a rather unfortunate slave trading incident in 1985. You haven't seen me, right! Commander Jameson. Shoot the craft's wing off so the pilot ejects in a capsule. You can then capture him using fuel scoops and sell him to slave traders..........DOH! that's what got me into this trouble in the first place!
I played that so much I used to see spaceships when I was trying to sleep. :zzz: I'm better now... *twitch* :~
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I never quiet understood why nobody has managed to succesfully create a worthy sequel to the game. The original Elite is a classic and I played the Spectrum version for months and the first PC version for the Amstrad 1512 got played even longer. Elite+ was okay but never captured the originals glories. The less said about the Braben sequels the better. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
The ZX version did kick some ass, but it's another religious argument (which version of Elite was better? - depends on where you played it first I guess). As for worthy successor - Eve:Online is fairly good, or if you don't go for the MMO "thing" X3 is supposed to be a very good kinda freeform game. I'm thinking of buying it, once I've play a demo to see just how lovely it is. Rated fairly well in PC-Gamer(uk). Hmm.
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The ZX version did kick some ass, but it's another religious argument (which version of Elite was better? - depends on where you played it first I guess). As for worthy successor - Eve:Online is fairly good, or if you don't go for the MMO "thing" X3 is supposed to be a very good kinda freeform game. I'm thinking of buying it, once I've play a demo to see just how lovely it is. Rated fairly well in PC-Gamer(uk). Hmm.
icabod wrote:
The ZX version did kick some ass
As someone who cut their programming teeth on a Speccy, I have to confess that I thought the BBC Micro version was the best IMHO ;) Remember the security system? It asked for a random word from a random paragraph on a random page of the printed manual! IIRC they printed it on green paper so it wouldn't photocopy. Genius!
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I played that so much I used to see spaceships when I was trying to sleep. :zzz: I'm better now... *twitch* :~
I played the original on an Apple 2e and 2c, I still have the disks somewhere. There is a magazine based out of the UK I think called Retro gamer. They had a big thing on it a couple months/issues ago and I belive they had it and an emulator on the CD. I will have to check my old mags to see if I purchased that one.
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icabod wrote:
The ZX version did kick some ass
As someone who cut their programming teeth on a Speccy, I have to confess that I thought the BBC Micro version was the best IMHO ;) Remember the security system? It asked for a random word from a random paragraph on a random page of the printed manual! IIRC they printed it on green paper so it wouldn't photocopy. Genius!
Robert Edward Caldecott wrote:
Remember the security system? It asked for a random word from a random paragraph on a random page of the printed manual! IIRC they printed it on green paper so it wouldn't photocopy. Genius!
Some parts of classic games are best left buried and forgotten. THe death of that type of system's the only good thing I can say about the replacement of fat printed manuals with etext only documentation.
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Just surfing aimlessly at lunch and ended up looking at http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/[^]. Just HOW GREAT was that game?!?!?!?!?! The best computer game ever, and all in 22K of memory. If only the authors hadn't had a MAJOR fallout we might be playing on XP - trading arms and narcotics between planets in a state of anarchy while taking out allcomers with the best weapons money could buy. Yours in hiding as I still have fugitive status since a rather unfortunate slave trading incident in 1985. You haven't seen me, right! Commander Jameson. Shoot the craft's wing off so the pilot ejects in a capsule. You can then capture him using fuel scoops and sell him to slave traders..........DOH! that's what got me into this trouble in the first place!
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I played the original on an Apple 2e and 2c, I still have the disks somewhere. There is a magazine based out of the UK I think called Retro gamer. They had a big thing on it a couple months/issues ago and I belive they had it and an emulator on the CD. I will have to check my old mags to see if I purchased that one.
Mine was either on a BBC or an Archimedes :-). Happy pre-PC days...