Happy 36th birthday, Elite game series o7

[StuartGT]

Elite (1984) - Elite Dangerous - Games - Frontier Store

Package includes a disk image of the original Elite for BBC Micro B; BeebEm, a BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator that enables you to run BBC Micro software on your PC; and instructions for getting started with both BeebEm and Elite.

www.frontierstore.net

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEj4Gq7fT4

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBEMJTZoYYo

List of longest-running video game franchises - Wikipedia

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[Rubbernuke]

Happy 5th birthday Powerplay! Maybe next year you'll get a cake, balloons and.....love

sniff no, I'm not crying. Its....its just the Onionhead I'm cutting...

PAAAARRRTTTTAAAAYYYYYYY

 

[Rubbernuke]

Oh mate why do you have to continue hurting yourself like this? Move on she's happy with her other man now.

I cAN't heaR YOU THE MusiCs too LOUD

 

[Factabulous]

I'll be celebrating the 501st anniversary of the start of Magellan's circumnavigation. I look forward to being able to land on waterworlds to repeat it in game

 

[thistle]

Smart that, taking the hairpiece off for the dancing.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Smart that, taking the hairpiece off for the dancing.

Well, this was a few minutes later when Antal started dancing away:

 

[Xious]

'84 ?? It DOES go by quick... HB ED

Memoriez...

 

[thistle]

Well, this was a few minutes later when Antal started dancing away:

Please don't post that ever again

 

[thistle]

'84 ?? It DOES go by quick... HB ED

Memoriez...

Argh, the utterly different shades of beige.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Please don't post that ever again

Its a well known and used 'education' tool to cure Utopian dissidents of non joy joy feelings.

 

[OnTheEdge]

I played the original Elite - I feel old now

 

[Rubbernuke]

I played the original Elite - I feel old now

It is a bit sobering.

 

[PRORABBIT67]

 

[Rubbernuke]

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I had to tune in a dial to empty space like the FSS.

 

[EdzUp]

Its a well known and used 'education' tool to cure Utopian dissidents of non joy joy feelings.

A bit like Demolition Man does lol

 

[thistle]

Its a well known and used 'education' tool to cure Utopian dissidents of non joy joy feelings.

'educational'?

 

[Rubbernuke]

'educational'?

Well, the other way is being beaten into agreement.....

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

Well, the other way is being beaten into agreement.....

I take it the beatings are the more popular option?

In all seriousness, as a Pilots Federation Accadamey graduate of 1993 and a highly decorated FE2 veteran, it's be wrong to not congratulate the original game on it's birthday.

 

[Banana's_Are_Good_For_You]

Its a well known and used 'education' tool to cure Utopian dissidents of non joy joy feelings.

Is true, tooks some times with banana but human noodle folded first..do nots listen to its!

 

[Hooplah]

Happy birthday Elite! Long ago before there were bobbleheads...

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