Greetings...
Does anyone remember the game "Elite"?
I had it on my BBC microcomputer and on my Acorn Archimedes A3000 many moons ago, and in my opinion, no game has ever been as epic, imagination-boosting and engaging as this classic. Graphics get better and better, but this game had it all and more without the need of perfected rendering and the latest graphics cards... Playability is all.
I am wondering what happened to it- why there is no OS X edition (or maybe there is??) - and why it doesn't seem to have been 'kept going' but left as a classic, slowly falling into the hallowed mists of gaming memory...
Any info/memories/opinion would be very welcome. I seem to remember the name David Braben as being the author / co-author??
Yours (mostly harmlessly),
Rich W
Oxford
UK
Does anyone remember the game "Elite"?
I had it on my BBC microcomputer and on my Acorn Archimedes A3000 many moons ago, and in my opinion, no game has ever been as epic, imagination-boosting and engaging as this classic. Graphics get better and better, but this game had it all and more without the need of perfected rendering and the latest graphics cards... Playability is all.
I am wondering what happened to it- why there is no OS X edition (or maybe there is??) - and why it doesn't seem to have been 'kept going' but left as a classic, slowly falling into the hallowed mists of gaming memory...
Any info/memories/opinion would be very welcome. I seem to remember the name David Braben as being the author / co-author??
Yours (mostly harmlessly),
Rich W
Oxford
UK