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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]]. | [[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 14:25, 15 December 2020
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| 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.
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.
The authors
For the time (1983) it was relatively unusual to have more than one author for a game, but David Braben and Ian Bell realized they were working on similar projects and collaborated whilst undergraduates at Cambridge to produce Elite.
See how David Braben and Ian Bell created Elite, by watching the documentary Brits Who Made The Modern World.
See also
- Classic Elite ships
- Classic Elite ships firepower
- Classic Elite ships wireframe
- Classic Elite sounds
- Classic Elite entity states
- Classic Elite planet descriptions
- Legends of Elite
Links
- Ian Bell's site
- Acornarcade
- Frontierastro - also good for Frontier
- the original game code
