Amiga - Frontier: Elite II Intro

Introduction to one of the most awesome games ever!

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Entertainment

Tags:

• amiga
• 600
• 1200
• frontier
• elite
• II
• intro

[Quartrez]

The file size of this video is 10 times bigger than the actual game.

[Quartrez]

That music is so great.

[BYERE]

dammit... I nostalgia'd!

[rjc0234]

@DevilMaster

oh wow. thanks for the pointer. would love to give that a go

[DevilMaster]

@rjc0234 Have you ever checked out FFED3D? If not, do it. The models are all new, the textures are all new, you can play it in arbitrarily high resolution and (with the right equipment) even in stereoscopy.

[jmm1233]

cpu is a little too fast

[amofreg]

What a classic! i will never forget sepnding hours saving up for my super ship, finally getting it ...then not having enough crew to leave the spaceport, fast forwarding time..bribing people the ,finally taking off only to be attacked by pirates, then in an attempt to spacejump to safety i misjumped to the middle of nowhere with no fuel. I think i cried that day :(

[Zanchin]

top game i played it on Amiga 1200 :P

[rjc0234]

wish they would remake this with"better" graphics (sharper lines, higher resolution, a bit more varied textures)

[XXplaythegamesXX]

the game has exactly 522kb on disk .i processed the same intro,at 2.2mb.... mpeg4 is the outgo format...

[carthag]

goddamnit this is the pc version. shit is weak.

[N4T3YBOY23]

I just found the boxset for this in a charity shop for 3.50. might be worth something in 100 years haha

[edgallois]

I gave up my A-Levels for this game!! :-)

[ogrejd]

Ah, the memories! This coming up on my old A500 (may she rest in peace) was my very first nerdgasm. :)

[jocksstrap]

@Lemmingology

I pretty certain I squared off against an undershielded Panther Clipper at one point.

IMP Courier was awsome - who needs to pay a crew 5 credits a week... each! What a rip off.

[Vistamage]

This game is for me like "star trek TOS"! Best and forever!

[hexim101]

@Lemmingology OMG Do the Assassination missions! Go get WinUAE and play the bloody game properly!

[T0mFrame]

be prepared for Infinity-The quest for earth... google it

[MyCuordileone]

Simply the best. Perfect mixture of strategy/exploration/combat. AND open ended to a fault. Modern games can't even think of touching it.

[Lemmingology]

I dread to think how many hours I put into this game as a kid. Ahh, the memory of heading down to Riedquat and betting with my sister how many times I'd get attacked before I managed to land... kinda sucked that an Imperial Courier was the biggest ship you ever got attacked by though. I always fancied taking on a Panther in a Cobra Mk. III.

[stopthesoftkill]

@hexim101 it was rock solid. Can't count the number of times I materialised from hyperspace and got blown into pieces on arrival without knowing what the hell was going on. Not to mention trying to land somewhere difficult because your automatic pilot broke, and completely messing it up taking weeks longer than I should've. That, and also accidentally firing the laser while landed and having to reload.

[Ander01SE]

@tvastar

Loved the wing commander theme back then, maybe because of the awesome cinematics. And those asteroid fields were outright nasty in cockpit view. o_O

watch?v=boeWQMHj-V4

[Ander01SE]

@gjw000

Amiga disks were 880 kb (837 kb formated). But the whole Elite II game was less than 500k. (Don't remember if that was after I had used power packer on it though.) O_o

[SirCraigius]

I had this for the Amiga. I played it almost religiously! Absolutely amazing game.

I would pay just about anything to play an updated version of this. Imagine the gameplay of Frontier with the graphics of Eve Online!

[arnie666]

If they made elite 4 , kept the gameplay to elite 2 standards, made it an online game it would be absolutely huge ,the world would be unlimited and in my opinion it would rival world of warcraft for subscriber numbers. I have no idea why they haven't made a space sim game that is a worthy successor. They all seem to be about building bases ,and not about flying these wonderful craft. I loved this game.

[JFredUK]

I used to love playing this on my A1200. Then, I upgraded the processor to a 68060 and the game no longer played. )0:}

[MarkoKraguljac]

@blade004 Check out "Infinity: Quest for Earth". Its still in development and will be for quite some time... but its better than never :)