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| Genre: | Strategy Game: Management |
| Publisher: | Superior/Acornsoft |
| Cover Art Language: | English |
| Machine Compatibility: | Acorn Electron |
| Release: | Professionally released on Cassette |
| Available For: | Acorn Electron, Amiga 500, Amstrad CPC464, Apple II, Archimedes A3000, Atari ST, BBC B/B+/Master 128, BBC Master Compact, Commodore 64, Nintendo, Sam Coupe & Spectrum 48K/128K |
| Compatible Emulators: | Elkulator 1.0 (PC (Windows)) |
| Original Release Date: | 1st February 1987 |
| Features: | Speed Boost when combined with the Turbo Driver |
| Original Release Price: | £12.95 |
| Market Valuation: | £14.42 (How Is This Calculated?) |
| Item Weight: | 282g |
| Box Type: | Oversize clamshell case |
| Author(s): | Ian Bell & David Braben |
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Elite
A&B Computing
1st November 1984
I may never make it, but that doesn't stop me trying. It's worth it. Read Review
Acorn User
1st October 1984
It's the best game of its type and all Meteors/Starship Command/Defender/Aviator freaks will love it! Read Review
Computer Gamer
1st February 1987
An excellent game. One of the few that can really be called a 'classic' and probably the only classic that is still playable - especially two years after release. Read Review
Computer Gamer
1st September 1985
This has been called the program of the century... If it's not the program of the century, then it has had at least the most impact of any computer game up to the present time. Read Review
Electron User
1st April 1985
No software collection is complete without it. Read Review
Electron User
1st March 1987
This is quite simply the best game for the Electron. Read Review
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Blurb
Elite is the first in a new generation of 3D space games featuring interstellar travel in a distant cluster of galaxies in the outer universe.
Command your Cobra spaceship in a fantastic voyage of discovery and adventure, a supreme test of your combat, navigational and entrepreneurial skills. Trade between countless planets, using the proceeds to equip your ship with heat-seeking missiles, beam lasers and other weapons - corporate states can be approached without risk, but unruly anarchies may be swarming with space pirates. Black market trading can be lucrative, but could result in skirmishes with local police and a price on your head!
However you make your money, by fair means or foul, you must blast onwards through space annihilating pirate ships and hostile aliens as your strive to earn your reputation as one of the Elite!
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| Download | What It Contains |
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 | A digital version of Elite suitable for Elkulator 1.0 (PC (Windows)) |
 | A digital version of Elite suitable for Elkulator 1.0 (PC (Windows)) |
 | A digital version of Elite suitable for Elkulator 1.0 (PC (Windows)) |
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Authority Says
dave_e, an authority on collecting games for the Acorn Electron, says:
The game itself is ever-so-slightly improved from the original, with a few bugfixes implemented. One of these is the Galactic Hyperdrive which did not work in the original Acornsoft Electron version but functions without issue on this re-release.
