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[challenge entry] The tragic reality of vector framework spaceships.

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(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:24, archived)
# My dad once played that for 3 days straight
the bbc computer melted :(
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:26, archived)
# *reminisses the days when sofeware piracy was putting two tapedecks next to each other*
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:28, archived)
# In the day it was like sex the game
OFC I was only 1 year old when it came out so the first I ever saw of it was after I had played frontier: elite 2.
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:28, archived)
# i have the newest "version" of elite...
...somewhere... can't rememebr what its called - lol
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:30, archived)
# haha
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:26, archived)
# no! stop making me pea!!!

(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:30, archived)
# Hahaha
No radar. Not real.:P

I keep metnally locking on to dock in his mouth. This could be why they don't let me near playgrounds.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:32, archived)
# *chortle*
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:40, archived)
# *pretends to understand*
Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:38, archived)
# Never played elite?
The spacestation is octagnal with a little letter box you have to get just right or you crash when docking.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:43, archived)
# love it

(I helped save b3ta! LittlePixel, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 22:07, archived)
# god
i loved elite
(I helped save b3ta! hYpe is haunted by humans, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 21:51, archived)
# You are in witch space
blast the eight thargoid saucers!
(I helped save b3ta! LittlePixel, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 22:14, archived)
# Once upon a time...
The humble PC was seen as a business tool, rather than a games machine. Back in that dim and distant past, games such as Elite and Starglider were ported from their native platforms in an attempt to encourage the hardnosed wheeling and dealing business fraternity to spend yet more time in front of the CRT. Oh, the hours I lost in front of my Amstrad PC1512 with its mighty TWIN floppy disk drives and black & white monitor...

The publishers, being of moderate intelligence, realised that making the games difficult would harm their efforts to get people to play games on the PC, so they made the developers dumb the games right down, with Elite being a case in point.

From personal experience, not the "I know a mate of a mate" kind, I know it's possible to get to Elite using nothing but Pulse Lasers in the PC version of the game. The PC version is ridiculously easy, compared to the original BBC version or some of the other ports.

That said, Elite (BBC Model B, Acorn, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC6128, Atari ST, and PC - I got about a bit as a lad) spawned a love affair with the "buy shit low, sell shit high, kill shit on the way. In SPACE!" genre of game which persists to this day. I'm currently tooling around in X3 Reunion, having a whale of a time.
(I helped save b3ta! flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 11:01, archived)