Who remembers the old computer game 'Elite'?

[Bob H]

Well, David Braben is trying to restart the Elite franchise on Kickstarter. He's looking for £1.5 million of crowd-funding to complete and release Elite: Dangerous. Go on, you know you want to... :patriotuk:

[URL="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous"]Elite: Dangerous by Frontier Developments — Kickstarter[/URL]

[ianmat]

I used to love Elite... I can safely say I spent more time on that game then any other (with the possible exception of Civilisation!). They did make a sequel not to long ago called Frontier, but it was pants!!! I will take a look!

[Heliblerk]

Elite was good... but I spent hours playing 'Virus' on the Atari ST. A fantastic game. I wish he would bring that back on the PC. He did a version called Virus 2000 for the PC I Think, but it was poor.

[Bob H]

[QUOTE=ianmat;930671]I used to love Elite... I can safely say I spent more time on that game then any other (with the possible exception of Civilisation!). They did make a sequel not to long ago called Frontier, but it was pants!!! I will take a look![/QUOTE]

Frontier was released waaaaay back in the '90s - 1996 iirc with Frontier 2 a year or so later. Yes, the graphics on those were poor but the game play, once you got used to the newtonian physics was pretty good. I could never successfully land on a moon to set up a mining complex though :( Always crashed.

[ianmat]

Wow... didn't realise it was that long ago, I must be getting old.
I think elite proved that you didn't need graphics for an incredible game.

[GravityKills]

aah those where the days when men were real men and Thargoids were real Thargoids :D
But, no problem that a military laser in the rear window can't fix.

Maybe the best part of it was when after 15 minutes of white-knuckle action, the docking computer screwed up... again...

[tomatwalden]

[QUOTE=Bob H;930614]Well, David Braben is trying to restart the Elite franchise on Kickstarter. He's looking for £1.5 million of crowd-funding to complete and release Elite: Dangerous. Go on, you know you want to... :patriotuk:

[URL="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous"]Elite: Dangerous by Frontier Developments — Kickstarter[/URL][/QUOTE]

Yep - somewhere I've still got my "Dangerous" badge! Also, still got my Acorn Archimedes A310 in the loft - wife doesn't understand why I want to hang on to "old junk" as she calls it!

[ianmat]

The only way to survive the Thargons and Thargoids was to be packing an energy bomb... I seem to remember!!!

[PsiFox]

That was the first computer game I owned. If a new version could be half as fun it would be great. I still miss the Wing Commander and Privateer games as well.

[PsiFox]

On the other hand Chris Roberts is back with a new baby

[video=vimeo;51135962]http://vimeo.com/51135962[/video]

[Martind]

Re: Who remembers the old computer game 'Elite'?

Yep great game :) my mate and I used to ply chocks away to for many a hour!!! Who needs all this real looking graphics.

[Delbmx]

Who remembers the old computer game 'Elite'?

Just download Oolite, it's free and a great port of Elite brought up to date slightly!

[GravityKills]

and this:
[url=http://wcsaga.com/]Wing Commander Saga[/url]

[Cagey]

Remember "Elite" ? I can bloody remember "Pacman" Hah !