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[[Image: BrabenBell.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Elite's creators at the time of launch in 1984]]
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[[Image: BrabenBell.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Elite's creators at the time of launch in 1984]] See how David Braben and Ian Bell created Elite, by watching the documentary [[Elite_on_TV|Brits Who Made The Modern World]].
  
  

Revision as of 11:41, 16 January 2010

Elite
Elite plaincover.jpg
Developer Ian Bell
David Braben
Publisher Acornsoft
Firebird
Torus
Microprose
Telecomsoft
Hybrid
Latest version Elite
Elite Plus
ArcElite
Release date(s) 1984
Platform(s) BBC Micro
Acorn Electron
Commodore 64
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC
Apple ][
IBM PC
Atari ST
Amiga
MSX
Tatung Einstein
NES
Acorn Archimedes

Elite is a seminal space trading computer game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers and subsequently ported to many others. The game's title derives from one of the player's goals to raise their combat rating from Harmless, through Mostly Harmless, Poor, Average, Above Average, Competent, Dangerous, Deadly, before reaching the exhalted heights of 'Elite'.


Elitebox.jpg

The BBC version of the game originally came on cassette in a box - this is a photo of the front and back. The box included a wall chart for identifying ships, a copy of The Dark Wheel novella and a manual.


Firebird's quite original Elite ads as seen in Zzap!64
Elite's creators at the time of launch in 1984

See how David Braben and Ian Bell created Elite, by watching the documentary Brits Who Made The Modern World.



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