ZX SPECTRUM ELITE

[ironeagle831]

excuse my language but this is the all time f@#king game of all time ever.thank you

[SPINNYFUCK]

@ironeagle831 You're welcome!

[PIOr3Ar]

THIS IS RAXXLA!!!

[PIR0kaR]

Что то русских не слышно, не играли что ли?)

[st0gey]

Would've been great to hear the original game sounds. The 'music' ruined it.

[Kapurod]

What is the name of a music? :)

[SPINNYFUCK]

@Kapurod Joe Satriani - Lights of heaven

[HardWarUK]

I always wonder why Lords of Midnight is not the next video in the list when i go to the channel. Th two classics of spectrum!

[bencheshire]

@MROreshkin In Russia Lens locks you.

[bencheshire]

Wow. I didnt know the Spectrum could do Redbook audio...

[pucara7777]

great game, i was play it about 25 years ago, and now are playing Oolite, a nice clone of our Elite. thanks for video. :D

[mizmera]

ROFLMAO. Anybody ever say the c64 was faster than the spectrum is speaking crap. You dont see redraws the whole time like on the c64 demo on youtube.

Commodore... pffft.

[Bothkill]

Elite is the greatest eva!!!

I still play this occasionally.

Can anyone who has the original Spectrum version scan the manual?

I couldn't find the Spectrum manual anywhere...

To get past the Lenslok protection use an emulator and: - use LensKey v1.2 or

- enter the Debugger of your emulator and modify the PC registry to contain #D07F.

[Nyanginex]

I got this game, haha. In the box too, with the novel thing that came with it.

[kimosaaaabe]

great game! Mine came with that lenslok thing but thankfully never prompted for it, I guess they removed the code in later releases....

[logflogger]

I remember lending this and my 48k to my mate. He played using my pilot , got mad during a mission and hit my keyboard. the next thing my pilot gained 2 levels had infinite missiles and had a cloaking device fitted to my ship. How's that for a cheat code.

[MrOreshkin]

I never seen that fucking attempts to enter code. Here in Russia we had no Lenslok at all.

[MrStardust85]

Probably most favorite and hardest game of my life.

[AndyKargopolov]

My game for ever

[SPINNYFUCK]

@AndyKargopolov Did you write this or is it just one of your favourite games?

[AndyKargopolov]

@SPINNYFUCK It is my favourite game since ZX Spectrum 48k

[SPINNYFUCK]

@AndyKargopolov Ah, okay mate!

[fishintheflow]

LOL Lenslok was such a bitch! :oD

[nasoszeppos]

omfg this is BETTER than freespace2!

omfg

[pepeladouche]

Didnt the company who produced the lenslok accidentally bundle the wrong ones with some software? . On my copy of elite it only sort of worked (might have been lucky guesses) once every 5 or so loads. Looking through it would usually produce a different, but still semi garbled image. Bloody thing would reboot after 3 goes as well. The game was a technical marvel, but got boring real quick.

[Sausageblight69]

The best game of the 80`s. Spent months trying to gain Elite status, slave trading and the rest. I seem to remember the manual was the size of war and peace. They should convert this game onto the PS3 and Xbox.

[serializer]

Lol @ Lenslok, I never could get that thing to work. Always had to get my older brother or even my mum to do it :)

[larjanus]

I remember Your Sinclair magazine ( remember T'zer Maughan? mmmm!) printed a massive set of pokes for this that gave you infinite everything, including smart bombs, and made you invincible even when flying into a sun. As the temperature rose, the screen would gradually 'red-out' until you couldn't see what you were shooting! A fantastic game, and a shame that Bell and Braben never made the proper sequel it so richly deserved.

[sergestephane]

Legendary game

[xeractus]

The concepts they implemented in this game over 25 years ago were so far ahead of their time its jaw-dropping.

[herbal1971]

Was awesome on the BBC B. When I heard it was going onto the Spectrum, I was dubious but the Speccy always did vector graphics surprisingly well.

The C64 version isn't as good in my opinion.

[jacksawild]

It shows how great the game is that the spinoff conversions contain worse graphics and here in the spectrums case, severely under powered hardware compared to the BBC. But it doesn't matter, in the old days they used to sacrifice eye-candy for gameplay instead of the other way around. Oolite is where it's at now.

[DocSponk]

I remember a cheat from the start of the game when you loaded it. It was something to do with the save/load option. It gave you loads of money and some other stuff..

[7byseven]

Last time I played this in the 80's I had like 6923483874037497397374730 credits and everythime I hyperspaced I was confrotned with loads of thargons. There was a rumnour that there was a massive mothership to destroy but it was just a rumour.

[DingKong]

Great game, but dare I admit that the BBC version was the best of the 8-bit formats?

[Kinmarcher]

(R) Tape Loading Error!! :D

[gelfling12345]

Aaargh! NOT funny, don't even joke about that! lol ; )

[hfu1973]

Last post! I saw an earlier post about the BBC version - one thing I preferred on the BBC version was the way that when you blew up a space ship it exploded into lots of particles rather than on the Speccy as an expanding circular explosion which was less realistic.

[hfu1973]

Another thing - about that lenslok - I've installed a Speccy emulator on my pc and I've downloaded Elite but...how to get past the lenslok screen without it?! I do actually still have one in its original Elite box in the attic somewhere but I was wondering if anyone knew another way round that without having to get covered in cobwebs!

[hfu1973]

Easily the best Speccy game ever, and one of the all time great computer games in history

[SechsFluegel]

I think this was the first game I multifaced, i.e. which I saved to tape as a snapshot using the Multiface 1 on my old ZX Spectrum 48kB.

So utterly annoying was the procedure, I never ever loaded Elite again from the original tape.

I still have all that stuff around here somewhere.

And I played the beast till Elite status. This did cost me quite some time even in my first year of study.

Freeing a Thargoid-infested space station was thrilling as hell.

Maybe repetitive gameplay but challenging!

[SPINNYFUCK]

It wasn't so bad having a mate to help with the Lenslok. Trying to do it yourself is impossible. I've got the original but only tried to load it a couple of times and gave up.

[SechsFluegel]

Another wierd thing about Elite players, perhaps?

So here we (rather I) go...

In the novella that came along with the game there is a description of an Elite captain laid out next to his ship (Cobra Mk III - IIRC).

He wears the red uniform which is a hallmark of his Elite rank.

When I finally made it to Elite status, I seriously considered getting a red uniform tailor-made.

This was too expensive, though. But I still have the red training suit I bought instead!

It was frequently used with Elite.

[no66y666]

it's like seeing an old friend :-) 5*

[zxgamer11]

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[capricious71]

IIRC, the first batch of lensloks were dodgy. It only seemed to work 50% of the time.

[DocSponk]

I remember finding a good cheat when you started which gave you a lot of money when you start playing. If I remember it happened when you selected y to load a game and then saved a game instead.

[TrevHead10]

I think this was the best game for the speccy that i never know about, shame ;( . I was introduced to the series with elite 2 on the amiga 1200 it was a good game but diferent in that u could land on planets and docking in stations was alot easier to do manually

[GrandPrix55]

i remember getting Spectrum Elite at Xmas 85 and playing it all night during the holidays every night.

One of the first epic computer games.

[7byseven]

Me too, I left it on overnight once and burned the computer out cos I didnt think I would pass the lens lock again, took me a day to crack it.

[JackTorranceReDruM]

@GrandPrix55 Yeah respect. The same experiences here with C64 :)

[cosine303]

probably one of the few BBC B games people could be proud about, lets face it there wasn't much else I rated on it. The lenslock thing used to do my nut in, you'd get it wrong sometimes.. and have to re-load aggh! maybe along with the hobbit this was the most hyped game at the time. Not my cuppa cha though...

[SPINNYFUCK]

Knight Lore was good on the BBC. Not that I ever played the machine. Lenslok was the worst thing ever. Totally over the top and a waste of time. Maybe the government should use it to crack down on non-existent terrorists - or themselves! Maybe you prefer a cup of Bonnie instead.

[andyginga]

Amazing footage, thanks! Elite was the best computer game of the eighties.

[SPINNYFUCK]

You're welcome mate! I was more into platform/shoot-em-ups/puzzle games but this was certainly a good game.

[dtfageet]

no this was a good game

[GlassDarkly]

LOL at the lenslok bit !! SO true.

This is actually me playing this game. I did the RZX about a year and a half ago using Elite3 (Russian hack with some neat extras)

And what ARE you on about Spinny ?? Having a high Elite rating was far more important than having a huge monster donger,any day of the week.

Luckily I had both ! :D

[SPINNYFUCK]

It was a nightmare. Didn't last long though, thankfully! I hope you don't mind me borrowing some footage from your excellent recording. *crawls and hangs head*

I've always been average. Whether it was in this game or in the contents of my pants is my own business!;)

[GlassDarkly]

Heheh No probs Spinny, happy to see the RZX used mate :)

[SPINNYFUCK]

Phew!!! *stops crapping pants, but delicately removes them and showers*

Thanks mate! Royalties to follow soon, hopefully! :]

[slavemale2]

You can stick your world of warcraft where the sun doesn't shine from. THIS was a game! Difficult as heck, and damned addictive with it

[SPINNYFUCK]

As long as you had a year to spare you could do well in this game. Very big game in size and popularity. People would brag about their rating as if it was the size of their penis! A guy I knew used to put a 'Do Not Disturb' notice outside his bedroom door so that his parents would know he was playing this game.

[vigo101]

Ah the Lenslok.. many an hour trying to close 1 eye to see what the code said...

[SPINNYFUCK]

The Germans should have used Lenslok instead of the Enigma Machine. Even Bletchley Park couldn't crack this protection!

[vigo101]

Yes the world as we know it now could of been a differnt place because of Lenslok :D

[SPINNYFUCK]

Klive Schindler and the SS Spectrum! Who knows!

[Smiaw]

The game of a life-time!

I still love the manual!

I remember a starting bug will take you to another universe. Probably the programmers had already known about Quantum Physics and Multi-verse then.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Didn't know about the bug. Maybe a programmers test routine!? A game to lock yourself away in your bedroom for months with a large supply of food and drink.

[bigboylift]

I was bloody awful at this game. Just couldn't get to grips with it at all. What about a bit more Satriani? Say Summer Song (the perfect driving tune) with a video of chequered flag. Now thats what I call retro!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Thank fuck I got the geek to tell me about it. I've already done chequered flag, so maybe do another driving game (what do you think!) with Joe as background! Or do you want me to do a replay and show myself up, lol?

[bigboylift]

What about Hard Drivin? I seem to remember it being a bit shit on the speccy. I'm sure you've done super sprint, chase hq, spy hunter. Mind you a shitty run around a track on chequered flag would be funny!

[SPINNYFUCK]

A shitty run it is then. or maybe not! Hard drivin was done on one of my compilations (I think?), no chance! I will listen to the song and see what I can do. Maybe end up Hard Drivin! Don't know yet!

[mathowlett]

What's the music? I need it !!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Joe Satriani - Lights of heaven.

[Etiainen]

This is one amazing space simulator! :)

I never really got to trade stuff (I got it on a disk, without instructions) so basically I just flew around, killed dozens of spaceships and jumping to a star or two :)

[SPINNYFUCK]

I did the same until I bumped into the Elite geek who explained everything about the game. Two hours later, I was an expert!

[Etiainen]

Lucky you :) When I played this game on the real thing, it was some time in 2000-2002 (I got it from a friend on a disk for Didaktik (slovak clone)), with virtually no speccy chum around me :/ So I had no choice but to find out myself :D unsuccessfully :P

[SPINNYFUCK]

This game probably used nearly every key on the Spectrum. Reading the instructions would take several days to understand as well. The manual was nearly as big as The hobbit (lol)! With mates round the competition was intense!

[kojiki1976]

I really wanted this game as a child, but it was exorbitantly priced - 14.99 in Menzies if I remember rightly!

Fortunately, about a year later I managed to tape it off a friend. :)

[SPINNYFUCK]

It was well packaged, so that's where the expense came in.

You taped it! That's illegal, lol!

[kojiki1976]

Yep, but I was only a kid. These days I would never dream of violating copyright law.

...minimises torrent window... :)

[SPINNYFUCK]

Being a kid is no excuse! How did you get it working without the Lenslok?

I've never heard of torrents, lol!

[kojiki1976]

I think my friend's copy must have been hacked because I don't remember ever seeing the Lenslok. It also included a save game with the best ship.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Probably saved of the Multiface then! Some of the Lenslok's were faulty anyway and had to be returned. I wonder how much I would get on E-Bay for my one with faulty Lenslok?

[mathowlett]

I could never get my head round this game. I think it was a bit too grown up for me :)

[SPINNYFUCK]

Very tough game. Fortunately, my mate knew a guy from college who lived for this game. It was almost as if he'd written it!

[Fawltykog]

Lenslock simulator, how codemasters missed that one i,ll never know!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Pain in the arse that Lenslok. If you had no mates around there was no way you could get this game working. Trying to stare through the tv screen and type in the code...no chance! The ultimate protection for a single guy!