Trivia - 1984 Elite cost the same as Elite: Dangerous.

[Samosa]

Just out of curiosity, I looked at a number of online inflation calculators, and it turns out that Elite cost £15 in 1984 (Spectrum version). Apparently £15 equates to about £43 in 2015.

That's all.

Oh, and this gem from a Crash review:

"This is a perfect blend of trading, shoot em up and strategy and if you’re not very careful you can find yourself getting badly hooked, spending hours trying to get just that little bit further. Here the SAVE game facility is a great help, and means that Elite is not so much a game — more a way of life. That may sound corny, but for once it really is true! No self-respecting Spectrum owner should be without it because it’s worth every penny of the £15 price tag."

 

[Cmdr Raz]

it’s worth every penny of the £15 price tag."

True yesterday, true today

 

[Steve50]

The (original) BBC model B version cost £17.95 if I recall correctly.
(Uhm.. It might have been £15 for the tape version and £17.95 for the disk version?)

 

[Cmdr Raz]

The (original) BBC model B version cost £17.95 if I recall correctly.
(Uhm.. It might have been £15 for the tape version and £17.95 for the disk version?)

Here's hoping we'll se a discounted tape version of Elite Dangerous

 

[X-Terminator]

You do know that inflation is over-rated and has caused our economy to go the way it is rather than standing inline with workers actual salaries?
Inflation is created to pay off our GDP because of loans we created by mortgages and other loans for which there was not the actual money existing in circulation in the first instance. Money is an "I owe you" and there is never enough to cover debts not being fully paid off over their cycle and in so doing written-off leaving us all with even higher debts that are not practical to be paid. Inflation is part of the fantasy. Well we can almost afford it but at the expense of not going out every fri/sat night like we used to! It is quite expensive I find. Just compare the costs of CDs back then £9.99 and now £12.99
Inflation?

 

[Julissa Silver]

Here's hoping we'll se a discounted tape version of Elite Dangerous

Well, at 660k storage per cassette, somehow I don't think a tape version is going to be very discounted when it needs several thousand of them. Although, just as a gimmick, I'd rather like to see Elite: Dangerous on cassette tape, if only to grok the size of the packing crate it would have to ship in.

 

[Deadlock989]

Except in 1984 I would have paid another £15 to test the first 512 bytes.

 

[Cmdr Raz]

Well, at 660k storage per cassette, somehow I don't think a tape version is going to be very discounted when it needs several thousand of them. Although, just as a gimmick, I'd rather like to see Elite: Dangerous on cassette tape, if only to grok the size of the packing crate it would have to ship in.

Maybe if I supply the tapes? FD, would you do this? Just don't tape over "Heaven Is A Place On Earth", it's like my favourite song!

 

[woodhouse]

Here's hoping we'll se a discounted tape version of Elite Dangerous

We get (duct) tape in the Sidewinder cockpit.
Unfortunately that is tape only.

 

[Han_Zen]

Well, at 660k storage per cassette, somehow I don't think a tape version is going to be very discounted when it needs several thousand of them. Although, just as a gimmick, I'd rather like to see Elite: Dangerous on cassette tape, if only to grok the size of the packing crate it would have to ship in.

It's just the installer on the DVD, so you don't need that many cassettes. Maybe just one DAB