AMIGA Frontier: Elite II by Gametek and Konami

David Braben made many people happy with his series of Elite games, Frontier is basically the second installment and is a great, really great game that kept me playing and going back to it for a couple of years... A must for all Amigans out there.

This is a video of the intro followed by a lift-off.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• AMIGA
• Commodore
• action
• space
• adventure
• trade
• shooter
• 3D

[sethshazam]

call me a whiner, but i dont really think any games in the recent years have been this epic. this was a real classic

[WillAJD]

I WANT.

[aegisgfx]

this is the game that made me wish I could make my Amiga faster.

[spike250684]

still got this (amiga1200)

still play it

still love it

still read the stories book and gazeteer lol

[VideoRoom207]

@sethshazam

A game called Infinity, in development, is really aiming for EPIC.

[lurkerrekrul]

Braben squeezed an impressive amount of data onto a single 880K floppy. Too bad there wasn't any room left on the disk for "fun".

Frontier is an impressive tech demo, but a lousy game. His insistence on using real physics completely ruined the combat and made it virtually impossible to get anywhere without using the autopilot, which was buggy as hell.

Take Frontier, fix the numerous bugs, give it Elite style spaceflight and you'd have a winner.

[apolak80]

@retronostalgic haha yes, that was one of the bugs i remember. The way to counter it is to speed up to the maximum and it won't crash.

[retronostalgic]

@apolak80 well actually ive been playing this old favourite again on an original amiga and the game does mess up sometimes- for example if you're descending to a planet spaceport and you speed things up sometimes the ship will crash into the ground for no apparent reason. Also i noticed the bulletin board screens screw up once or twice( but maybe that was the save game disk getting in the way).

[apolak80]

@retronostalgic This game was pretty solid and I only remember a couple of bugs which didn't actually affect gameplay. I think the sequel, elite first encounters was the one riddled with bugs but since I never owned it I couldn't say for sure.

[retronostalgic]

@apolak80 - Is it me or did this game have quite a few bugs messing the game up?

[apolak80]

This was probably my most played game ever.. I even remember the story book that came with the game. Epic

[cykadelik]

@MechWizzard

u ever fit a class 8 hyper drive to one? lol, if u got the 1t of rubbish bug/cheat to work u could make the bay as big as u liked. and a class 8 would go in. could get huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge jumps. lol