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developer | Torus - Philip Mochan, Ricardo J.M. Pinto, Dominic M.N. Prior & Mark Wighton |
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game_name | Elite |
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languages | en |
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platform | cpc |
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players | 1 |
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publish | 0 |
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publisher | Firebird Software Ltd. |
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year | 1985 |
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__long_description | >Command your Cobra space ship 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 missles, 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 the 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 you strive to earn your reputation as one of the Elite!
> -- <cite>Game Box</cite>
***Elite*** is a seminal space trading video game, originally published
by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers.
The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their
combat rating to the exalted heights of "Elite". It was written and
developed by David Braben and Ian Bell, who had met while they were
both undergraduates at Jesus College, Cambridge. Non-Acorn versions
of the game were each first published by Firebird, Imagineer and
Hybrid.
Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame
3D graphics with hidden line removal. Another novelty was the inclusion
of The Dark Wheel, a novella by Robert Holdstock which influenced new
players with insight into the moral and legal codes to which they might
aspire.
Elite's open-ended game model, advanced game engine and revolutionary
3D graphics ensured that it was ported to virtually every contemporary
home computer system, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre
maker in gaming history.[1] Elite was a hugely influential game,
serving as a model for more recent games such as Space Rogue, Eve
Online, Freelancer, Jumpgate, Infinity: The Quest for Earth, Wing
Commander: Privateer, Pardus, the Escape Velocity series and the
X series of space trading games.
Elite was converted to a wide range of home computer platforms,
including the Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64,
ZX Spectrum, MSX, Tatung Einstein and IBM PC compatible. The only
console version was released in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment
System. Some of the versions had slightly altered gameplay or other
characteristics, such as the number of missions offered to the player.
The ZX Spectrum version was a bestseller in the Gallup charts and was
voted number 7 in the Your Sinclair Readers' Top 100 Games of All
Time.
The Amstrad CPC conversion (itself a port of the ZX version) has fewer
ships than other platforms, lacking the Anaconda and Transport, along
with some minor differences in missions and titles.
The Commodore 64 conversion introduced Trumbles (creatures based on
the tribbles in Star Trek: The Original Series). When the docking
computer is activated in the Commodore 64 version and some other
versions, a musical rendition of The Blue Danube Waltz is played, as a
nod to a space docking sequence in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film
2001: A Space Odyssey. This music was arranged by David Dunn.
Source:[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)) |
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command | run"elite" |
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cpc_model | 6128 |
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floppy_list | Disk 1.dsk: 6ce47b1f87476140ee65d2fcc7981e2b3cbf9113 |
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parent_uuid | cb461058-fe43-4a1e-898f-a40ed551eec9 |
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platform | cpc cpc |
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publish | 0 (inherited) |
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tag_tosec | 2018-12-27 |
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variant_name | DSK |
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x_name | Elite (cpc, TOSEC, DSK, 1985, Firebird Software) |
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__imported | 2014-04-14 |
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__tosec_dat | Amstrad CPC - Games - [DSK] (TOSEC-v2015-05-07_CM).dat |
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parent_uuid | cb461058-fe43-4a1e-898f-a40ed551eec9 |
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platform | cpc cpc |
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tag_tosec | 2018-12-27 |
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variant_name | DSK, fr |
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x_name | Elite (cpc, TOSEC, DSK, 1985, Firebird Software, fr) |
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