[Sussex] Did you ever get to Elite ?

[David Chapman]

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 11:24, Nik Butler wrote:
> Many many years ago, when people like Jon, George and Tom were but
> terrible twos in their parents care I was a dangerous Rogue trader on
> the edges of the iridin space ways...... 
> 
> 
> Elite 
The L game did it for me.
It was a text based logic puzzle. And yes I had a lot of help from my
wife. :-)

> 
> I loved it , pure arcade trading power.. all on  your friendly
> nieghbourhood BBC micro. 
> 
> 8 bit action, 1000% pleasure the days before OpenGL, DirectX and
> xPolygons power... 
> 
> I loved that game  on so many levels. You talked about it with your
> friends at school. you compared trading prices with friends looking for
> better lanes of commerce. You met up at nights ( draggin your BBC round
> to a friends house ) to play nights of comparative trading and piracy.
> 
> This was the Game to Copy and the game to brag about.
> 
> 
> Now I discover that its still loved and cherished and cared for. Having
> read NTK ( www.ntk.net ) I see that its possible to grab Brabens sequel
> to this special game Frontier and run it again......
> 
> Goodbye, Halo
> So Long Splinter Cell 
> Farewall DOA3 
> adios Combat Fight Simulator
> 
> Im going back to my 8bit days and reminicing.
> 
> 
> 
> oh and it runs on linux so this thread is still relevant!
> 
> Nik
> 
> 
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