BBC Micro game 2nd Processor (Tube) Elite

[dtdavie01]

This brings back so many good memories, Elite was one of the best games I played, the first buy was always the docking computer, docking was a bitch. You had to keep your nose clean or landing became almost impossible with the police chasing you down. Ratsoncats was right the cargo you caught with the fuel scoops was 9 times out of 10 always dang slaves, Me and a friend both got to Elite and we sent off to Bluebird for our Elite Badges have mine still knocking around here somewhere. Good days..

[hagelt18]

This is some ultimate shit right here.

[ratsoncats]

brings back so many memories. Made Elite twice, the Tape version, then the disk version...with missions... but a TUBE...oh man, there would be someone with money. Only a dream for a schoolboy like me... funny thing with watching this clip, so many memories, as soon as you headed to collect the cargo...I knew it would be slaves. Always a great way screw a clean rating!

[nickfoxseamer]

great game of 80's. took me year to get elite

[nickrolfe]

Still got the BBC B too!

[nickrolfe]

Best game ever, played it for days on end on my BBC B. Managed to get to 'Dangerous'

[cookie123456789012]

Is it possible to play 2 player on this?

[esathegreat]

really fast,but the sound sucks ass

[DLiberator78]

Thanks for uploading vid it is good to see this classic played once more. I have been playing this on the BBC emulator BeebEm 4.14 for Windows. I can't get it to work on the BBC Master 128 with the 65C02 co-processor, I get the error: "Disc fault 18 at: 0 00/00". So I have to set the emulator up for BBC Model B Plus with the 65C02 co-processor instead and run the 'Executive Version' instead of the 'Master 128 Colour version'. I can't figure out how to get around this. Thanks again for uploading.

[Milks808]

yeah 7000 ships to get elite on the BBC version (the hardest version I believe) sounds familiar.

How come you've got front military lazers but a rating of harmless? Just lots of trading and avoiding combat?

[Chris60540]

This is pure nostalgy :-) ... But in my mind, the sound and graphics was SO much better then... Things really has evolved. But still, this is the first and best real simulator tht gave me the feeling of really being present in a game.

[Y0g11]

what a cool ass game - never even heard of it

[jazzx251]

@Y0g11

This is a game that presented 8 galaxies of 256 planets - multiple wireframe spaceships and different stock markets on different planets, as well as different government types (anarchy, facist etc..) all on 16k of memory.

I consider it, according to its resources, the greatest computer game of all time. A feat of programming brilliance that has never been matched since.

The BBC micro was itself the forerunner of the architecture (ARM) used to power the software in today's mobiles.

[weadone]

i play'd it on the acorn electron format i never made elite but my uncle did

i think it took him over a years gaming

he still has it all on tape

wished they'd update it

iconic game!

[vntr2006]

All time classic. I never reached Elite...only Deadly. I think you have to shoot over 1,000 ships to get to Elite!

[cpmisalive]

I think you've got quite a way to go. In order to reach Deadly, you have to destroy 2,816 ships/asteroids/missiles etc. to get to Elite you need 6,912 kills... another 4,096!

RIGHT ON COMMANDER!

[IncisalEdges]

@cpmisalive I got the message "RIGHT ON COMMANDER" after a kill on my cousin's saved game back in the 80s. Does that mean he had reached Elite?

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

@IncisalEdges I think that means he achieved a certain number of kills - 128 or 256 or something along those lines. The first one bumps you up to Mostly Harmless but you need loads to be Elite.

[cmcnum]

bbc micro the first elite platform and the best

[Rumpio]

How did you record this? I'd love to be able to do that.

[fuckallnight1]

why are the graphics not 3d

[Silichip]

Excellent BBc game in the 80's but I now play ELITE - The new kind, at Gosfish for the Pc. Enjoy!

[nicsandee123]

Love this game played for weeks on BBC back in the day. Became Elite on spectrum and C64 never found special missions though anybody do them???

[ShelvokeSPV]

I still play Elite on a BBC B with second processor.

[danhjersey]

There are still many flight/space games that could do with copying the Elite scanner, so intuitive.

[ironlion45]

I am Elite, a lover/Baby you'll discover/Life with me can be so sweet/I am unique, no other/Come on baby we can go...

[bign3ck]

this was my fav game as a kid, and what got me into video games.

[webboffin]

Back in the mid 80's when I was 16-17 years old I would play this game day and night. I would have more credits than possible to spend to enjoyed going outside the space station shooting up endless supply of cops.

Where can I get this BBC version for the PC? What is the best BBC emulator?

I know other versions came out but this was the best for game play.

[jdsthebest]

No need to make such a fuss about docking. I always used to fly straight in at full speed. - easy

[malad1]

Yeah, the bbc probably didnt have the processing power to care too much as long as you hit the general area okay.

[mufcchampions07]

I just read on msn that this was voted the best game of all time!! I played it as a kid too and yes it was good but best game of all time? Not sure about that!!

[fergiewergie]

This was the best game ever ! Has no one turned it into a PC game ? Think what you could do with the memory of a PC if this was on a 32k machine

[cpmisalive]

Elite did come out on the PC in glorious CGA and EGA graphics. VGA came later with Frontier:Elite II. I got quite hooked on Freelancer, the graphics are very nice, even now.

[BaddeJimme]

I think the PC did get a conversion called Elite Plus but it would be so old by now that you would still need an emulator like DOSbox to run it. But there is an open source remake called OOlite which is pretty good if you want to play it on a modern machine.

[Kg277]

2 processors??

[ShoeiBoy]

Nice upload mate... Plenty memories watching this... Beeb version is the only way to fly!

[cpmisalive]

Yeah, I'd add that 2nd Processor Beeb Elite is the only way to fly ;)

[ShoeiBoy]

Haha well i wouldn't know... 1770DFS & 40/80 track drive pretty much emptied my piggybank back in the day.

I'd discovered dance music & girls by the time I had 2nd processor kinda money scraped together :o)

[cpmisalive]

Yeah, I know what you mean ;)

The 6502 SP was £225, I think, back in 1984, considering a BBC B was £399 with DFS, it was pretty steep.

Now there's a halfway decent PC emu, its worth playing the SP version knowing it won't cost you anything, but time...

[gmonkey808]

You can play a multiplayer verison of this online called jumpgate. Worth a look

[420pixel]

Spent a long time on this game, got to DEADLY, but not ELITE....its time to install that emulator...

[tomtomgirl123]

long live elite!

[ginfox91]

hi sorry if this sounds sad but i'm interested in the game and the classics but have never played it. would any one knoe where to get a suitable emulator and ROM plz.

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[GotNextVideo]

Just check out Ooolite, a nice freeware remake

[ginfox91]

cheers

[dariusb27]

the game is interesting and brings back memories but i would say you are strange if you prefer the sound effects ;)

[dave1234u]

i spent days playing this on my old xt

[bgr8l8r]

Legend amongst old games

[ellayuk]

Crazy decision, If you're gonna sell computers, sell em at Isinor. :-)

[EdZep123]

One of the best games in microcomputer history and all in 32K (Well, the original, at least)

[rogve79]

I remember another game in that same period which looks a lot like this one, but in which you could actually land on planets and walk around a bit. Can anyone remember the name of that game? I played it on an Atari ST.

[GlassDarkly]

Thats probably the sequel to this game.. Frontier :)

[modafinal]

Damocles?

[rogve79]

It turned out to be Frontier. I loved that game!

[Pappy55]

*cry* why dont they make games as good as thins anymore..

[Thraxwhirl]

Nice vid of a wonderful game.

But did the Taurus Jumpdrive REALLY make that AWFUL noise on the Beeb version?

[GlassDarkly]

Heheh Torus jump-drive? An old Amstrad or Specrum owner for sure !!

You are right though, as much as I Like the BBC version, it sounds awful half the time !

[simiano42]

Nice landing

[cpmisalive]

No, this is the 6502 2nd Processor BBC version aka "Executive Edition", you need an 80T drive and a "cheese wedge" additional processor attached. The BBC version has monochrome space view and four colour status/radar. X3 is pretty close to Elite - I haven't played it for a while, Freelancer is pretty old, but a respectable space trader/shooter.

[t30sxh]

Wow, so many fond memories of this game.

This is the Acorn version isn't it? Wasn't the BBC version monochrome (I can't remember)?

Currently playing X3:Reunion...the closest thing there is to Elite that I've found.

[Thraxwhirl]

Yeah, X3 rules.

But I do remember Elite with much joy. What a great game in its day. I had the Spectrum version. No colours! Lol.

BTW - 5202 creds for killing an Adder? On the Speccy you got just 10!! Even a Cobra MKIII only gave you 17.5!

Ah, the memories.

[GlassDarkly]

No the BBC version brings up your credit TOTAL for each kill, not the credit reward itself.

And annoying it is too. Much better when they changed it it later versions.

[Thraxwhirl]

Ah. I didn't know that. Yes, I agree - showing the current reward, rather than your total funds, was better. Afterall, you could view your account ANY time.

And the Jumpdrive wasn't called Taurus on the Beeb, eh? Didn't know that either.

As you rightly suspect, I played it on a Spectrum. Actually a Spectrum +. No rubber keys for me. Lol.

[GlassDarkly]

Heh..Yep Torus was the name of the team that did the Spectrum and Amstrad conversions, and olny called that in those 2 releases. And like you an old Speccy owner. Good days :D

[Thraxwhirl]

You can get it for your PC, with a speccy emulator you know. :)

I've not tried it, but I did play a bit of "Skooldaze" this evening. That was another fave game of mine.

[GlassDarkly]

Oh yeah I love my speccy emulator. Skooldaze is great! My favorite way to play Elite these days is the c64 version with the emulation speed turned up 30%.Makes it much more playable.That or the BBC version above :)

[EdZep123]

Skooldaze was brilliant. I was surprised that they got Elite onto the Spectrum. A lot of people said it couldn't handle it but it was pretty good, despite the Lenslok. :)

[wesmatron]

Arrrghh! Thargoids!!

Great game

[therealcaldini]

Best game ever. You must have been pretty tooled up - everything wanted to have a go.

[SegaMegadriveMic]

Did you know Elite was also released for the NES in 1991? It was slower than this version and played music.

[madmatt2002]

The best game ever!!! great to hear the sounds of being shot at 1st time for me in over 20yrs!!

[Rumpio]

Go get yourself to the Stairway to Hell website - you can get emulators to play these on your current computer!

[yugyugyugyugyug]

nice flying!