ELITE 25 Years old!!!!

[Buleste]

Been playing C64 Elite the past few days. You can twitter David Braben on Wednesday. Go here for more info or goto the 25th anniversary website here.

[Harrison]

I also used to play Elite on the school Beebs whenever I could. It is amazing to think the game is now 25 years old. Still just as playable and still amazing how huge the game is.

Do you think that Elite 4, however it is designed and whenever it is released will ever live up to the original? Frontier was a great sequel, but it still didn't have the huge impact of the original.

[Buleste]

Having been playing c64 Elite over the past few days I can safely say it's better on 8 bit. Improved graphics and speed seem to take some of the soul away.

[Harrison]

I think part of the charm of wire-frame graphics was that it suggested the objects but you had to use your imagination to fill in the rest.

[v85rawdeal]

For more information, head on over here

[Bloodwych]

Thanks v85rawdeal. What a great time it would have been to push Elite IV in the news too.

The PS3 would be an ideal machine for a kind of real world space trade game, in the style of Elite of course. Instead of PShome, we'd have Elite Home, or world, or whatever.

[v85rawdeal]

And even more news... (albeit a bit old)

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2009/06/...irmed-for-ps3/

[Buleste]

For more information, head on over here

I've seen that link somewhere before.