Experience the classic space trading game, Elite, as released on the BBC Model B in 1984, by Ian Bell and David Braben.
From the original box description:
"Command your Cobra space ship in a fantastic voyage of discovery and adventure, a supreme test of your combat, navigational and entrepreneurial skills.
Trade between countless planets, using the proceeds to equip your ship with heat-seeking missiles, beam lasers and other weapons - corporate states can be approached without risk, but unruly anarchies may be swarming with space pirates.
Black market trading can be lucrative but could result in skirmishes with local police and a price on your head!
However you make your money, by fair means or foul, you must blast onwards through space annihilating pirate ships and hostile aliens as you strive to earn your reputation as one of the Elite!"
“The game of a lifetime” Zzap! 64. May 1985.
jdreyer wrote on Nov 25, 2014, 04:01:subx wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 22:24:
It's not the same if you don't have to hunt for a blank tape to save your game on.
They actually simulate that in the BBC Model B emulator: you have to search for a virtual tape in a virtual messy room and insert it correctly into the tape player. In 30 seconds. It's a minigame, but tell me that doesn't add realism.
subx wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 22:24:
It's not the same if you don't have to hunt for a blank tape to save your game on.
Slick wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 14:50:Dagnamit wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 13:13:Phasenoise wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 12:42:
This is the offline play module.
BS, i still have to connect to the internet to download it. Where's my refund?
Slashman wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 10:52:
Why the original and not some of their more recent sequels?
1badmf wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 14:36:DangerDog wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 14:17:
Today on Blue's News kids react to 1984 gaming technology.
Hopefully we're all fortunate enough to be around another 30 years to look back on this moment in time with the same sense of bemusement - "did we really think that technology was the bee's knees?"
i bet OG elite could literally be played on a ti-85.
1badmf wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 14:36:DangerDog wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 14:17:
Today on Blue's News kids react to 1984 gaming technology.
Hopefully we're all fortunate enough to be around another 30 years to look back on this moment in time with the same sense of bemusement - "did we really think that technology was the bee's knees?"
i bet OG elite could literally be played on a ti-85.
Dagnamit wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 13:13:Phasenoise wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 12:42:
This is the offline play module.
BS, i still have to connect to the internet to download it. Where's my refund?
DangerDog wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 14:17:
Today on Blue's News kids react to 1984 gaming technology.
Hopefully we're all fortunate enough to be around another 30 years to look back on this moment in time with the same sense of bemusement - "did we really think that technology was the bee's knees?"
Phasenoise wrote on Nov 24, 2014, 12:42:
This is the offline play module.