The Original Elite Game?

[Ben Ryder]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Raiders


Is it just me that see's a striking resemblance?

Does any one knwo where I can download a copy?

There was another game called something like star commander on the atari 2600 but I cant remember teh exact name for the life of me...

Any idea?

 

[Red Anders]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Raiders


Is it just me that see's a striking resemblance?

I can't believe Lucas didn't have them in court over the fairly striking resemblance to something else in the cover art.

 

[BelluX]

Maybe Braben has taken inspiration from this.

 

[FoxTwo]

I used to play this at a friend's place. He had the Atari 400.

I wouldn't say this was "Elite"... it's purely a space combat game, no trading, no open world. Think "Freespace", but in 1979

 

[The New Number Two]

Star Raiders was the heat. I wanted an Atari 400 so bad just to play Star Raiders.

[video=youtube;3_VDM8nC9sM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VDM8nC9sM[/video]

 

[The New Number Two]

Here you go. Plays in the browser.

https://archive.org/details/a8b_cart_Star_Raiders_1979_Atari_US

 

[Kingston@#]

I got a copy from the store last week. not sure if it is still up!
checked it out.
game is a free dl in the store.

 

[The New Number Two]

There was another game called something like star commander on the atari 2600 but I cant remember teh exact name for the life of me...

Any idea?

Activision's Starmaster?

[video=youtube;o0DQg3hAoPM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DQg3hAoPM[/video]

 

[Ben Ryder]

Activision's Starmaster?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DQg3hAoPM

That's the one! Thank you so much.

Damn it was hard!

 

[dannysquid]

I had STAR RAIDERS on the 2600. I am old.

 

[Crash1099]

I guess it time to kickstart that.....lol...

 

[GreyAreaUK]

I had STAR RAIDERS on the 2600. I am old.

I still have a 2600. I'm sad.

 

[_trent_]

There were quite a few wireframe space shooting type games back then. I particularly remember "Interdictor Pilot," "Empire" and "Space Rogue" on the C64. While there were similarities between them and Elite, even then Elite stood out due to the scale of the galaxies and the freedom to move around them.

I still have my old C64 up in the attic. I have no idea if it still works. There are probably some of the games I used to play stored along with it too.

 

[irongut]

I still have a 2600.

Me too! I still pull it out of the cupboard occasionally to play Space Invaders, Asteroids, etc.

 

[Worminator]

I had one on the C64 that came with a headset microphone. If you made noise in the mic the ship would shoot. You were supposed to say "fire" but we would just blow into it and it would work. Anyone remember what this was called?

 

[Morbad]

I can't believe Lucas didn't have them in court over the fairly striking resemblance to something else in the cover art.

These aren't the tie-bombers you're looking for. Move along.

 

[VonBlade]

This was my first on the Dragon/CoCo.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Maybe Braben has taken inspiration from this.

Ian Bell also

 

[nigeljk]

Lest we forget those who kept the faith http://www.oolite.org/download/ , and just incase you need the 'off-line' mode.
BTW for all of those who would love to add their own 'flavour' to ED the Oolite allows you to code and add objects, missions etc. For more information here is the friendliest forum this side of Reiquat :http://aegidian.org/bb/ you'll find some of Drew's early work here also.

 

[ByteMe]

I had one on the C64 that came with a headset microphone. If you made noise in the mic the ship would shoot. You were supposed to say "fire" but we would just blow into it and it would work. Anyone remember what this was called?

Echelon - That brings back memories, very enjoyable game.