Elite for the Acorn Electron

This is the Acorn Electron version of Elite, by David Braben and Ian Bell. It came out at exactly the same time as the BBC Micro version and shares a lot of code, making it one of the genuine original versions.

It's running here through an emulator, hence the incredibly speedy loading.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Elite
• Acorn
• Electron
• 8bit
• 3d
• video
• game

[keegan773]

Best ever RADAR screen

[80Thom80]

Not only is it genius, but collecting the information required to draw it is a natural consequence of the way the 3d engine works more generally.

[pedalbin]

Didn't the 'J' key 'jump' to get you to the Space Station faster?

Awesome game

[80Thom80]

Yep, that's what I'm doing somewhere around 1:37 — the beep that comes just after that is the warning that you can't jump any further because you are too near to another object.

Braben & Bell were geniuses...

[pedalbin]

You are right, sorry missed that. Without doubt, the finest trailblazing game ever! It owes me 5 good years of my life.

[80Thom80]

Then my tip is: don't download Oolite. That's another few years gone right there.

[CarackUp]

ive played  this game on the amiga and electron ,electron game is better than the amiga version. if u ask me

[CaptainSumo]

Leesti !

The real hardcases would have headed straight for Riedquat. Docking a Jameson there was a real challenge. I did it a few times on the Elk. You could leave Lave as 'Harmless' and be 'Above Average' by the time you docked! However, more often than not I ended up as a stream of floating space dust.

Thanks anyway for the nostalgic moment.

[MrJonathanSheridan]

dont know if the keyboard setting but the game doesnt work on my emulator.... how do i launch? do i need to turn my function hot keys off?

[doughnutdoney]

Great memories :)

[capricious71]

Really clever how they created an illusion of vastness in 32Kb. :)

[phlogios]

Zaonce Knowles

[marshalllucky]

I heve these game on my models b micro comuter , I purchase it off of the ebays and it es verr nice games to play, I heve travel to the plenets leesti ;-)

[Kelarre653]

I just saw this game in a documentary. I'm amazed; it's such a shame to look at what became of such a revolutionary idea. Greedy companies with too much money hired a bunch of code monkeys to make games for profit; no inspiration needed.

[TheLoonwolf]

It seems that planet may be just a legend after all.

I've added some music to this video and posted it as a response.

[TheLoonwolf]

Check out SteveBenway's video, he did just that.

[TheLoonwolf]

Does anyone know what galaxy the legendary planet called Arse is in?

[deivuuk]

Nicely docked. I thought you were a goner.

Any chance you could do another Electron - Elite video? I'd like to see you attack the Corolis station and get engaged in a Viper fight!