Newcomer / Intro Elite Mk1

Diwrnach

Diwrnach
I played Elite on a 48k Speccy for over a year until I achieved Elite. I also played Frontier for a couple of years on my Amiga 1200. Two of my favourite games ever along with Ultima Online, DDO and this one.
 

Psen999

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Yeah, played on my dads Amstrad CPC464, with colour screen and the dam tape deck. i hated loading the game watching the lines load the picture, going to have some tea (makes me laugh when you hear all these people complaining about loading screens that last 10 seconds). then when you get back to check on the progress you get the dreaded 'read error b' or 'syntax error'.

The original was a great game though, very few missions not that much to buy to upgrade your ship, not good graphics, but dam good gameplay, how times have changed
 

clivewil

clivewil
the amiga's paula sound chip didn't quite do 'the ride of the valkyries' much justice though. i played with music off.

oddly enough it would probably be acceptable today as a mobile phone ringtone, i have heard some absolute horrors in that department
 

ScurvyGoblin

ScurvyGoblin
My Sam Fox poster in a pink bikini and this game on the Acorn Electron Took up so much of my teenage years.......Sam Fox i still love you.

 

JohnRoberts

JohnRoberts
Despite the crude graphics, glacial clock speeds, loading from tape and probably less RAM than a Nespresso machine, computers back then were... magical.
 

Gavski

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Ah, Spectrum 48k, Lenslok, the novella, a proper cardboard box - takes me back.

The Amiga version was amazing: all those colours!

Imagine going-back in time and showing Elite Dangerous to your younger self? You would think it was witch-craft...
 

mossfoot

mossfoot
Gavski said:
Ah, Spectrum 48k, Lenslok, the novella, a proper cardboard box - takes me back.

The Amiga version was amazing: all those colours!

Imagine going-back in time and showing Elite Dangerous to your younger self? You would think it was witch-craft...
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Actually I'd be knocking my older self out and stealing his time travel device ;)
 

starsphinx

starsphinx
OK I cant claim proper original status but I was introduced to elite plus on an atari ST around 1991/2 and fell in love with it - the only game I have ever got properly hooked on. Had the emulator on my PC and did regular searches for the elusive "elite 3" which was rumoured forever before the crowdfunding magic happened. I bored my kids silly trying to explain the magic back then while they told me "its just a rotating square".
ED is magic - it feels like the original blossomed, that all this was inside the original just waiting for the chance to get out.
 

Gavski

G
starsphinx said:
OK I cant claim proper original status but I was introduced to elite plus on an atari ST around 1991/2 and fell in love with it - the only game I have ever got properly hooked on. Had the emulator on my PC and did regular searches for the elusive "elite 3" which was rumoured forever before the crowdfunding magic happened. I bored my kids silly trying to explain the magic back then while they told me "its just a rotating square".
ED is magic - it feels like the original blossomed, that all this was inside the original just waiting for the chance to get out.
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"It's just a rotating square" - Ah, but back in the day that's all we had, right?

Also waited so many years for Elite Dangerous and personally I am impressed, bar some niggles. Excited at what will follow.
 

Googol

Googol
Beeb cassette and 5.25" disc versions, then the Archimedes version before playing it again on the PC about 4 or 5 years ago using the Red Squirrel emulator.
 
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