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Offline Mangala

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Elite Turns 25 today
« on: September 21, 2009, 04:11:27 PM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8261272.stm

Theres no dubt a few elite fans on here so had to post :)
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Re: Elite Turns 25 today
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2009, 04:23:24 PM »
Linkage to anniversary site

http://elite.frontier.co.uk/
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Re: Elite Turns 25 today
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2009, 04:26:34 PM »
What interested me is the talk of a sequel that Braben alludes too :)
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Re: Elite Turns 25 today
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2009, 04:44:18 PM »
Quote from: Mangala on September 21, 2009, 04:26:34 PM
What interested me is the talk of a sequel that Braben alludes too :)

According to wikipedia the sequel is supposed to be out next year ;)
Of course he has been talking about that for ages.

I just hope that when they release a sequel it will be a mmo (makes sense) and keeps the frontier physics :P
I love the Newtonian physics :)

But in most likelyhood it is vapourware.

 
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Re: Elite Turns 25 today
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2009, 05:59:03 PM »
Great game, its the game that got me in to Computer gaming, my cousin had it on his BBC Micro.

Anyway, as per usual, the BBC are late in getting their info, Elite was 25 years old yesterday ;)
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Re: Elite Turns 25 today
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2009, 08:28:05 PM »
Never played the original, but I was deeply into Privateer.
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Re: Elite Turns 25 today
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2009, 08:42:01 AM »
I've told the story countless times, so most likely you know it already. But 24 years ago I went pretty much insane for playing Elite for a week, day in and day out with perhaps 2 hours of sleep per night... But I recovered well, these days I *usually* remember most of the time I am not a space-pilot flying illegal stuff from solar-system to solar-system  :D
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Re: Elite Turns 25 today
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2009, 09:01:13 AM »
25 years, how time flies.
I remember it was a pain to dock those spaceships because the rectangular port was rotating and if you missed rotating equally fast you died.
That is about all I remember. It makes you wonder how good a game it actually was :)
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Re: Elite Turns 25 today
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2009, 08:07:25 AM »
I only ever played the sequel Frontier Elite 2 which was both awesome and awesomely hard.
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Re: Elite Turns 25 today
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2009, 01:10:33 PM »
I had the original Elite on acorn electron then on my earliest Amstrad PC. Loved that game.

Ill have to keep an eye out for the next Gen version if they are planning it
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