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Elite

Video: Elite - ZX Spectrum - (David Braben/Ian Bell/Firebird, 1985) - Trailer · Deadpan Flook

Elite

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ControlsArrows moveEnter selectSpace actionEsc menu / backCtrl fire

The game runs in a DOS emulator: keyboard and mouse work like on an old PC, each game has its own layout (see the hints in the game). There are no on-screen buttons on a phone.

First click the game screen once: after that the keys go to the game, not the page. To scroll the page again, click outside the game window. If the game does not respond, click the game screen again.

The game runs from the Internet Archive site in their emulator; there are no game files on our servers. We show it so you can get to know it; the rights to the game belong to the rights holders. The built-in player has no volume control: if there is no sound or you need to adjust it, open the game page on Internet Archive, which has sound and full-screen buttons. Game page on Internet Archive.

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Video: Elite - ZX Spectrum - (David Braben/Ian Bell/Firebird, 1985) - Trailer · Deadpan Flook

Elite

MS-DOS · 1987 · Firebird Software

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Developer
Realtime Games Software
Publisher
Firebird Software
First release
1987
Platform
MS-DOS
Rarity
no data
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Description

Elite is a space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984.

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Elite's open-ended game model, and revolutionary 3D graphics led to it being ported to virtually every contemporary home computer system, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history. The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of "Elite". Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D graphics with hidden line removal. It added graphics and twitch gameplay aspects to the genre established by the 1974 game Star Trader. Another novelty was the inclusion of The Dark Wheel, a novella by Robert Holdstock which gave players insight into the moral and legal codes to which they might aspire.

Source: IGDB

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