After a break of approx 30 years here at last something I have always dreamed would happen eventually. If it comes down to it Elite, the original BBC PC game has always been regarded as the best ever. I spent hours and hours on it with my floppy disc drive and my Watford Electronics ROMS added to the original BBC PC. More recently played with the emulator on my Windows PC but never recaptured the excitement of the original. Loved the emulator's av rendition of the disc drive loading the game. Never got above dangerous however hard I tried even though I went past the 2nd Special Mission.
The new game looks awesome and my initial experience takes me back to the first minutes and hours I spent on the original game using just a keyboard. I eventually bought a joystick that made life so much easier as I could roll with the Coriolis Space Station and get in unscathed.
So here I am revealing that I will need some really good kit if I am to even get past the training stuff. A joystick is obvious, but which one. I never reached the ability to do anything but use the front gun, so am I going to be faced with that inevitability again. Will I need a joystick for each aspect assuming that there are left, right and rear guns to contend with if I am ever going to get past a "Dangerous" Rating this time. I am retired so have more time available. Hopefully my reactions will not let me down at the age of 62!
The new game looks awesome and my initial experience takes me back to the first minutes and hours I spent on the original game using just a keyboard. I eventually bought a joystick that made life so much easier as I could roll with the Coriolis Space Station and get in unscathed.
So here I am revealing that I will need some really good kit if I am to even get past the training stuff. A joystick is obvious, but which one. I never reached the ability to do anything but use the front gun, so am I going to be faced with that inevitability again. Will I need a joystick for each aspect assuming that there are left, right and rear guns to contend with if I am ever going to get past a "Dangerous" Rating this time. I am retired so have more time available. Hopefully my reactions will not let me down at the age of 62!
