Newcomer / Intro Elite Mk1

JackBassV

J
Huge numbers, including me. Most of my early elite playing was on the NES version, only available in the UK. A USA version was in development, but stopped for some reason.
 

cmdr lowest

C
Tons of us. Although I probably played a lot more Frontier on my Amiga back in the day (Elite II).

Some of the threads I see on here written by people complaining about "jaggies" in this game crack me up. Jaggies? Back in the day we didn't even have colour... some kids don't even know they're born. am I right? I'm right.
 

willowfan

willowfan
Vet of Elite on the Speccy and Frontier on the Amiga here.

It was a major breakthrough when the original polygon ships were coloured in in Frontier!
 

DTAC

D
Amstrad CPC 464 and Amiga here. I think if everyone who bought this game had to play the original for a day first, there would be a 95% drop in complaints.
 

Carbucketty

Carbucketty
Enzovito said:
Any BBC / Spectrum vets out there?
Click to expand...

Is the Amstrad version close enough? Fantastic game, and the way the programmers got such a massive universe into a couple of dozen kilobytes of code was sheer genius.

I can't help a nostalgic grin when I see the occasional complaints that Elite: Dangerous doesn't have enough variety in the missions. I remember getting three missions in the whole of the original game, and then absolutely nothing apart from the periodic "Right on commander!" messages until the Elite ranking finally popped up. I'm sure I wouldn't have the attention span nowadays :)
 

Faerie

Faerie
Didn't play on the BBC but started in '84 on the Acorn Electron, Spectrum for a short time before moving on to the Amstrad CPC6128, then later the Amiga. Played Frontier on the Amiga for many years after that. Reached Elite on all but the spectrum. :)
 

Razorwire

Razorwire
BBC B+ in '84, with over 200kb(!) extended RAM and an actual hard disk. With a capacity measured in MB even.

It was like a super computer.
 

HAWX

H
Acorn Electron & Speccy... god, those were the days.
I lost a whole bunch of my adolescence with the original game. Then in the late 90's when I got my first PC, the first game I searched for was Elite.
Happy days.
 

ermtony

ermtony
Speccy, C64 then Atari STe (upgraded to 4Mb RAM - fely awesome!). Finally bought to PC so I could play Doom...
 

Red Kite

Red Kite
Played on the BBC Master 128 in 1984. Elite was my first game, bought at the same time as the computer (and mostly the reason for buying the computer at all!)

I still pass the shop where I bought it, in the days when you went to a local computer shop for your gear rather than an on-line supplier, but it's now a fancy hi-fi shop.

Aaaah, the nostalgia!!
 

Midian Cabal

Midian Cabal
Speccy vet here. I almost bought C64 only because it had Elite before ZX. Luckilly it came out for Spectrum before I could buy C64.
 

Juby

J
Add me... First played on a friends Acorn Electron then on my own C64 and then moved it onto my Amiga back in 1988 (when I got my first proper pay cheque and thought I was rich).

Do you remember when you had multiple different types of computer Acorn, BBC, Dragon, Sinclair, Commodore, Amstrad to name but a few. All completely incompatible with each other. It's a bit boring now it is just 2 (PC & Mac (excluding consoles)).
 

apolloz

apolloz
Yep played it on the BBC model B , (Also PC AT and a Amiga 500) I still have the BBc micro and the original Elite Tape and the 5.25 inch disk in my loft somewhere.
 

JackBassV

J
While you can get the original for free from here, you might like to try OOlite. Based on the original code, you can play it in modern full colour(!) graphics or in the original wire frame version. Plus, unlike Dangerous, it's available in native 64bit.

It might explain why I can dock in under 2 minutes from requesting permission to land... No speed limits in Dangerous.
 
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