Things about ED that would have made your own 10yr old head explode (if they could see it)

Vaughn · Jan 23, 2015

I just spend a few days mucking around with different hardpoint setups in my Viper at a warzone in Tionisla.

I thought to myself... If I was able to show my 10 yr old self that footage, my head would have exploded.

There was streams of missiles firing off all over the shop... ships spinning out of control... I was sticking to the hull of an anaconda so close I could have been using a mining laser. I was in every dream I'd ever had about joining the rebel alliance, it was epic.

I was wondering what moments everyone else has had like that?

martinwright6 · Jan 23, 2015

Well Vince, last night I 'top gunned' the lead ship in a funeral march I found in a USS. I think my ten year old self would probably have told me to grow up

Shads · Jan 23, 2015

Elite wasn't out when I was 10 years old......In fact Quentin Crisp wasn't out when I was 10 year old

Gismodan · Jan 23, 2015

Here's my experience from last night https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=103721

Dr Roly · Jan 23, 2015

Shads said:
Elite wasn't out when I was 10 years old......In fact Quentin Crisp wasn't out when I was 10 year old

Lol!

When I was 10 I used to dream about what future versions of Elite would be like. In many ways ED has surpassed those dreams.

(my dreams didn't have supercruise or griefers though)

Valisk · Jan 23, 2015

My thirteen year old head nearly exploded when I saw Elite running on my mates dad's BBC Micro... If I could go back in time and strap a DK2 & Elite to my younger self's head, god knows what would have happened

(I'd also warn myself not to get too obsessed with Nicola Clark - she didn't exactly 'blossom')

Marasmusine · Jan 23, 2015

I think just the resolution on the opening splash screen, and the Coriolis on the menu screen would have made me poop a little.

EMarkM · Jan 23, 2015

Well let's put it this way:-

I was pretty impressed with my ZX Spectrum's graphics in 1984, plus the "multichannel" sound that some clever programmers managed to fake.

If I'd seen a close-up of a star, or heard the BRAAAAARP! of the discovery scanner, I think my knees would have gone.

deMangler · Jan 23, 2015

I was blown away by Elite when it came out. At the time I was working on what would become my computer studies O'level project, a kind of basic/6502 assembler adventure game.
It was all I could do to get more than 2 colours on the screen and still have enough left over to do any work....
The first time it hit me how far things had come technically was stopping to admire the water effect in Morrowind.
I am somewhat harder to impress technically these days. Now when I look at ED, what impresses me the most is the creative skill of the team. Putting the sound and vision and feel of things together in a way that just places you in this ship, in space. It is a work of rare skill and accomplishment.

Agony_Aunt · Jan 23, 2015

martinwright6 said:
Well Vince, last night I 'top gunned' the lead ship in a funeral march I found in a USS. I think my ten year old self would probably have told me to grow up

LOL, i'd give you rep, but apparently you must have already made me laugh at something recently, so it will have to wait.

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deMangler said:
It was all I could do to get more than 2 colours on the screen and still have enough left over to do any work....

2 Colours?! 2 whole colours? When i was a lad, we were so poor we only had 1 colour! And it was black! You had it easy!