Experience the classic space trading game, Elite, as released on the BBC Model B in 1984, by Ian Bell and David Braben.
Available for download
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!"
MAC version link :- https://www.frontierstore.net/games/elite-dangerous-cat/elite-1984-for-mac.html
All comments (25)
mcek
31 Dec 15#1
i don't play pc games these days, but will take a trip down memory lane with this one.
loved my beeb, and my acorn atom (the developer machine for this game)
heada
31 Dec 15#2
if i could give 1000 degrees of heat, this would get it. Loved this game.
susieqt
31 Dec 15#3
you have just made my other half extremely happy Snakeyes! :smiley:
flimbo73
31 Dec 15#4
Retro heat! :laughing:
jpd11
31 Dec 15#5
Way ahead of its time, great game. How they did this on the Beeb and Electron I don't know.
OrangeAgent
31 Dec 15#6
Blew me away when I first played this
Masterdealer1
31 Dec 15#7
I played this game on my C64!!! This was so freaking amazin compared to pac mans and another 8bit games
A1M
31 Dec 152#8
Some things are best left to nostalgia. How are strobing white lines on a black screen going to look in 2016?!?
Snakeyes646 to A1M
31 Dec 15#10
Not everyone plays games for the graphics, gameplay is still addictive and fun and it's free.
Kid_Sickarus to A1M
31 Dec 152#11
I'll let you know in 3 hours and 57 minutes :wink:
binzee to A1M
1 Jan 16#18
agreed...
even sent off for the badge lol only got to deadly tho :wink:
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Available for download
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!"
MAC version link :- https://www.frontierstore.net/games/elite-dangerous-cat/elite-1984-for-mac.html
All comments (25)
loved my beeb, and my acorn atom (the developer machine for this game)
even sent off for the badge lol only got to deadly tho :wink: