Just wondering the age of ED players?

Jorge Palu

Jorge Palu
52

Commodore 64 was my first taste of Elite... Sigh, the tape drive took forever to load the game...

Any wonder there is so much vinegar on the forums given the amount of old farts playing....

Get off my lawn..
 

Spaceman Si

Spaceman Si
Walter2 said:
Apple II Europlus. Had to sell a motobike to buy it. Still sits on my bookshelves looking antiquated (as do I).
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Ah, I did some wishful thinking about having one of those back in the day!

I still have my BBC-B, I can't bring myself to get rid of it after all these years. It still works, on the odd occasion I fire it up for old times sake. To this day, I am still in awe of the mode switch that Elite did to split the screen with.
 

Commander Debic

Commander Debic
Elite
Cover art for Firebird releases of Elite
Developer(s)David Braben
Ian Bell
Publisher(s)Acornsoft (Acorn/BBC)
Firebird (ports)
Imagineer
Designer(s)David Braben
Ian Bell
Writer(s)Robert Holdstock
Composer(s)Aidan Bell
Johann Strauss
David Whittaker
Wally Beben
Platform(s)BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Apple II, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Tatung Einstein, IBM PC compatible, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST, Nintendo Entertainment System
Release20 September 1984
Genre(s)Space trading and combat simulator
Mode(s)Single player
Elite is a space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984.

When it was first released I was already 38. Here I am still logging in occasionally to Elite Dangerous today although I doubt I can make it to September 2084.
 

lenna

lenna
early/mid-forties here...

My older brother used to play the original Elite on the Spectrum as I recall.

I liked the Elite concept at the time but did not have the time to play it that much.
 

Hossi

Hossi
40. Elite was one of my first games ever on the C64 (well, actually it belonged to my older brother). At least we had the 5 1/2'' floppy disc version.
I basically used it to learn to read, all the text convinced my mother that playing elite was time well spend.
 
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insanephoton

insanephoton
Old enough to have been alive when people were walking on the moon, not quite old enough to remember it though. Only a couple of years to my half century.
 
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