Celebrating 35 years of Elite!
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For me its not a memory but a feeling. I would play music while playing the game. Every time I heard those old songs, I get hit with a strong sense of nostalgia. I remember the joy I had playing, I can almost smell the room I was in, the food I ate. Ahhh the things I would do with that free paint job.... Please keep your minds out of the gutter!
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Have to say my most memorable elite moment was waaay back on the C64. It wasn't the first successful docking, nor the first significant profit from a trade mission. It wasn't even the gaining a new rank...
It was the first time some unfortunate foe decided to conveniently wander into the sights of my newly acquired military lasers. Previously with pulse or even beam lasers there would have been panic, frantic key smashing and general flapping around, inevitably leading to destruction (usually of me) and sulks (definitely me). But not this time. 2 seconds of pretty awesome sounding laser fire, and there was obliteration. And it wasn't me being obliterated. For one brief moment I was the ultimate destroyer, a little wire framed death star...
Can't recall that elation lasting though, as I am fairly sure my rear end was duly handed to me on the next encounter.
CMDR Mad Dog McGregor (PC)
It was the first time some unfortunate foe decided to conveniently wander into the sights of my newly acquired military lasers. Previously with pulse or even beam lasers there would have been panic, frantic key smashing and general flapping around, inevitably leading to destruction (usually of me) and sulks (definitely me). But not this time. 2 seconds of pretty awesome sounding laser fire, and there was obliteration. And it wasn't me being obliterated. For one brief moment I was the ultimate destroyer, a little wire framed death star...
Can't recall that elation lasting though, as I am fairly sure my rear end was duly handed to me on the next encounter.
CMDR Mad Dog McGregor (PC)
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CMDR Megalon
This is a simple, but eternal memory. I first played Elite in high school when the original game came out. I played it on a Commodre 64. I will never forget how exciting (and difficult) my first docking was. I was also amazed by the revolutionary vector graphics. Since then Elite is still in my top 3 video games ever.
This is a simple, but eternal memory. I first played Elite in high school when the original game came out. I played it on a Commodre 64. I will never forget how exciting (and difficult) my first docking was. I was also amazed by the revolutionary vector graphics. Since then Elite is still in my top 3 video games ever.
For me, CMDR Joseph Graves, my favorite memory was reaching Beagle Point days before the Distant Worlds 2 cutoff and before I moved states. Knowing that I had reached the outward end of the journey and being able to look back at the edge of our galaxy, and the immensity of it all was incredible. I sat landed looking back for 2 hours just taking in everything that we know so small and distant.
Not sure if it's a good memory 
but I remember it was the late 80's and I read in the Elite handbook that the stations always faced away from a Sun. It also said that you would appear next to one after hyperspace, however that never happened for me. Determined to find a sun, I set my Cobra on a direct line away from Lave.
Even after an hour of letting my ship fly (with constant cries from my mother to "get off that computer!"), I never came across one :-( It was only many years later with the arrival of the Internet, I discovered that the Acorn Electron version of Elite didn't have Suns
- Commander Willinator
but I remember it was the late 80's and I read in the Elite handbook that the stations always faced away from a Sun. It also said that you would appear next to one after hyperspace, however that never happened for me. Determined to find a sun, I set my Cobra on a direct line away from Lave.Even after an hour of letting my ship fly (with constant cries from my mother to "get off that computer!"), I never came across one :-( It was only many years later with the arrival of the Internet, I discovered that the Acorn Electron version of Elite didn't have Suns
- Commander Willinator
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Funny thing is that in ELITE, the station entrance is always facing the planet. Vital bit of information when learning to dock.Not sure if it's a good memory
With Elite Dangerous, the look and feel is as good as, and if not better, than anything I dreamed of back 3 decades ago.
With the graphics (especially in VR) you now get the 'wow' factor we had in our imaginations all those years ago.
I'm still playing frequently and often for far to long. Not many games can claim that.
With the graphics (especially in VR) you now get the 'wow' factor we had in our imaginations all those years ago.
I'm still playing frequently and often for far to long. Not many games can claim that.
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Yes - facing the planet, not the sun
This isn't going to win anything, but my best memory is from playing on my Commodore 128 and finally earning enough credits for my first military laser - and then firing it.
This is long before I ever heard of the concept of "grinding", which I've personally never experienced playing this game, in any of its flavors.
- Roger Wilco Jr.
This is long before I ever heard of the concept of "grinding", which I've personally never experienced playing this game, in any of its flavors.
- Roger Wilco Jr.
CMDR Olfinol
So many great memories with different versions of this amazing game, but the best has to be my first exploration of Guardian ruins. Forget atmospheric landings, this was simply atmospheric. Undoubtedly the most immersive experience I have had in any game. Looking forawrd to more adventures like that in the future.
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So many great memories with different versions of this amazing game, but the best has to be my first exploration of Guardian ruins. Forget atmospheric landings, this was simply atmospheric. Undoubtedly the most immersive experience I have had in any game. Looking forawrd to more adventures like that in the future.
o7
In 1984 I was a 12-year-old Italian student who dreamed of space and played elite on his commodore 64. During the breakfast break I used to ask the English Teacher to translate the parts of the instructions that were unclear to me. I still remember the excitement when I earned enough credits to buy the military laser. My God, I realize that I grew up and now I'm getting old playing Elite.
Cmdr Duncan McMannus
Cmdr Duncan McMannus
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Quoting you, but this applies to all who have a bit flaky memory (if there was a pirated pre-release version of Elite for C64 already in 1984, then the below statement doesn't hold...)
In 1984 you were not playing Elite on Commodore 64, as that version was released 1985.
As we age, no one gets better ...Quoting you, but this applies to all who have a bit flaky memory (if there was a pirated pre-release version of Elite for C64 already in 1984, then the below statement doesn't hold...)
In 1984 you were not playing Elite on Commodore 64, as that version was released 1985.
I apologize: you're right, it had to be 1985.
CMDR Stinja
One of my fondest memories in Elite: Dangerous is when I strapped into my shiny new Cobra MK3, blasting out the station, and just buzzing around testing it out.
I'd saved up to get a semi-A-rated version, and there was a genuine feeling of making it up to the next rung (from whatever Hauler or Adder I was in before) in terms of capability. Combat and trading were far more comfy, the speed and flexibility kept me in it long after I had credits to jump to other "better" ships.
Even now, despite having flown every ship in the game, being a triple-Elite, multi-billionaire: it's the one i'd call my main ship, and just keep coming back to it's wonderful feeling to fly.
I've gone to Jaques in it, earned my Combat Elite rank in it, hunted for Raxxla and visited alien ruins, dodged ganky FDLs, refuelled 400 stranded CMDRs, killed pirate lords in their corvettes, mining, etc etc
It was everything that was hinted at in the C64 1984 version i'd played so long ago, now made more real instead of polygons and descriptions in the manual.
That first test flight felt both exhilarating and also comfy like i'd come home.
One of my fondest memories in Elite: Dangerous is when I strapped into my shiny new Cobra MK3, blasting out the station, and just buzzing around testing it out.
I'd saved up to get a semi-A-rated version, and there was a genuine feeling of making it up to the next rung (from whatever Hauler or Adder I was in before) in terms of capability. Combat and trading were far more comfy, the speed and flexibility kept me in it long after I had credits to jump to other "better" ships.
Even now, despite having flown every ship in the game, being a triple-Elite, multi-billionaire: it's the one i'd call my main ship, and just keep coming back to it's wonderful feeling to fly.
I've gone to Jaques in it, earned my Combat Elite rank in it, hunted for Raxxla and visited alien ruins, dodged ganky FDLs, refuelled 400 stranded CMDRs, killed pirate lords in their corvettes, mining, etc etc
It was everything that was hinted at in the C64 1984 version i'd played so long ago, now made more real instead of polygons and descriptions in the manual.
That first test flight felt both exhilarating and also comfy like i'd come home.
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Published in 1985 maybe, I didn't actually get a C64 until a good few years later, but i'd still say it's the 1984 version of the game.In 1984 you were not playing Elite on Commodore 64, as that version was released 1985.
My first best memory is when i first have the docking module on Elite 1984.
Cmdr : James T' Toutouille
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Cmdr : James T' Toutouille
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Best memory of Elite. My colleague had brought his copy to the Falkland Islands in 1985. We played it on our down time on a hilltop near Stanley. I still remember how advanced the game was for its time and how difficult it was to dock. That memory was the driving force for me to invest so heavily into Elite: Dangerous in all its contemporary glory that still has the beating of its rivals.
Cmdr: Pendragon of Orion
Cmdr: Pendragon of Orion
My fondest memory was just after I learned to dock in the original Elite on the BBC B, I'd had no success for a week and was gettting really frustrated. A friend of a friend agreed to come over and give me a few pointers. Turned out the circle with a disc rapidly spinning round it wasn't a fancier station but a planet.So I'd been, well, carefully crashing the whole time. Couldn't put the game down after that, apart from to write down all the commodity prices. Seems the community's always been there even in that more analogue age.
Cmdr Cunabula
Cmdr Cunabula
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