Documentary about the making of the game ELITE.

Mr_GeeMr_Gee Sussex, EnglandMember Posts: 14
in Miscellaneous

Interesting and in-depth documentary about the making of the game. I had a Spectrum so never got into Elite.
youtu.be/GpWoF5uVgbA

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  • zzap64zzap64 Member Posts: 405

    My fancy neighbour had the BBC & Disc Drive to play Elite.
    I remember the Lens lock device they used for copy protection on the Speccy.

  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188

    Yep, the Spectrum version had the lens lock thingy which was awful!

    Great documentary - thanks for posting stuff like this @Mr_Gee :)

    QS (Elite status on BBC, Spectrum, PC and NES versions) =D

    Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home...
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  • Mr_GeeMr_Gee Sussex, EnglandMember Posts: 14

    No worries, bar one or two those are the best of my utube findings. Mobile and early 8bit development seems very similar.

  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692

    Remember it well :)

    Darren.

  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989

    @Mr.Gee awesome, thanks for posting... as you said, it is nice to see how similar early 8 bit development was with some of the current indie games scene.

    I don't remember playing ELITE much, certainly ware of it... we did have an Acorn Electron growing up, I used to sit with brother and take turns copying code out of a massive ring bound book and save it onto a cassette to eventually make a very rubbish (yet satisfying) black and white paint program.

    I do however remember Carrier Command a few years later: and having to search through the text book and enter a a given word on a certain line, on a certain page (their pretty effective way of stopping piracy).
    Carrier Command..
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Command

    This was amazing..

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