Elite - best game of the 1980's to get 2014 Reboot

JCFord

IMO one of the best games of the 1980's "Elite" is to get a reboot for 2014 by one of the original developers, David Braben.

For those of you who may be too young to know Elite was a 3D space trading sim that was groundbreaking in its day it was only 22k in size!!!

Quote: “Elite” has gone down in history as one of the most successful games of the 1980s. It was the first ‘open world’ game in which the player can freely roam a vast space. It was the first true 3D game too, and set many other benchmarks. Ian Bell and I set out to make a game for ourselves rather than for some imagined market. We were sick of games with three lives then a new life every 10,000 score; we wanted something new."

The project is being funded on kickstarter. More info here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous

I have made my pledge, so please check this out.
JCFord

JCFord

Elite Dangerous is now in its last 7 days of funding on Kickstarter, so far its raised over 1 Million UK pounds and there will be a Mac version if we can hit the magic 1.4Million. So please go and pledge.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous

Thank You
JC Ford

SlickZero

Awesome. I love space sims and economic trading games. I was a long time player of the X series of space games for PC. Can't wait to check this one out.

BBEnk

Played Elite on my commodore 64 back in the day was a very fun game, buying and selling goods pick up some illegal drugs run from the space police and pirates all in glorious 3d vector graphics and this version looks awesome.

UtopianGames

Played it in the mid 80s on my uncles bbc micro so looking forward to this.

Darren.

AfterBurnett

You know what? I have never played Elite! Odd, seeing as I am such a massive C64 fan! I might have to check it out. Reboot sounds awesome!!!!