THE STORY OF ELITE: A Space Opera - Kim Justice
Added 2019-04-19 09:49:38 +0000 UTCFinally, here it is - the story of how Elite became the most influential British game ever, and a look at its creators. It's been a while in the making. Hope you enjoy it :)
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Kim, if you ever do a documentary of consoles such the Atari 2600 and how they did in your part of the world, you might want to consider giving a quick mention of Jerry Lawson. He made very important contributions in the very early days of video games but remains an obscure figure. I don't want to give away spoilers, but before there was Atari, Sega, Nintendo and the rest...there was Jerry Lawson. There are interviews of him on the internet, and I find his story fascinating. I even named one of my Engineering type ships in Star Trek Online after him.
Daggorath Dungeon Keeper
2019-04-23 00:49:11 +0000 UTCElite was something I did not get to experience because it wasn't available for my childhood computer (TRS-80 Color Computer 2) and I'm guessing it wasn't well known in the USA. I got into vintage computers a few years ago and have pretty much every Major non IBM compatible computer from the late 1970s (Atari 400 / 800) to the early 1990s (My Amiga 1200. Got it at a yard sale with monitors and extras for $120 in great shape. I had it recapped. In the USA finding an Amiga in the wild is like finding a Unitorn). Out of every game I have played on these machines, none impresses me more than Star Raiders for the Atari 400 / 800. It is nothing special now, but in 1979 it must have been jaw dropping. At the time, it could have been considered better than any of the current arcades like Asteroids and Galaxian as It used a first person simulated 3d view like Elite...in 1979 :-)
Daggorath Dungeon Keeper
2019-04-22 23:39:37 +0000 UTC
