OT: Interesting article RE: Elite's genesis

[dogscoff]

Yeah, Elite was and is cool, and yes, it (and its various sequels) made it to the PC in many incarnations.

you can even play it in your browser : http://www.bootlace.co.uk/index.php?...es&type=jelite and I believe there are also ports to various hand-held devices available.

The great shame of Elite was that its creators- Bell and Braben - fell out bitterly over "artistic *cough*financial*cough* differences" and went their seperate ways, and as a result none of the sequels so far have ever really matched up to the original in terms of gameplay: Frontier always felt incomplete , to me, and although I haven't played the others, I've heard similar stories.

However, there are more sequels in the pipeline- two of them, I believe- one from Braben and one from Bell.


Click this link: http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/zat/frontier.htm for a doorway into the Elite community.