Elite:Dangerous, the sequel to the all time classic Elite
 

Finally after almost 18 years a new Elite game, may happen. Frontier games lead by David Braben has launched a kickstarter campaign to raise the funds for a sequel to Elite ,the original open world space sim.

Gameplay video featuring a dogfight within a asteroid belt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5JYR...ature=youtu.be

Link to Kickstarter page

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...lite-dangerous

cool! Hopefully, it will be as great as those space-sims of the good ol'times! :)

A new video about the dynamic nature of the universe has been released.

http://youtu.be/5uKD1ap5hsI


Kickstarter link

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...lite-dangerous

Elite would have been my first sim. I think It was on my Apple ][+ clone.

Ah! the beauty of the wire frame graphics! Hopefully they will have the wire grame as a docking display somewhere on the control pannel!

Even after I managed to buy the docking auto pilot I still used to take in my ship on manual. It just seamed the right thing to do!


Cheers!

I had Elite running on a BBC Micro model A with seperate tape unit! I don't think the BBC micro got beyond UK shores but it was essentially built by Acorn and was a BBC initiative to bring computers to a wider audience. The alternatives at the time (for a 15 year old with not so much pocket money) were the Commodore 64, Acorn Atom or the VERY expensive Apple II.

Elite was brilliant and I manage to 'waste' many happy hours / days / weeks on it. The wire-frame graphics were exceptional at the time and I have to say that the docking autopilot was dead handy when under pressure - a little bit of smuggling was always great at boosting the coffers but not smiled on by the law!! ;)

History here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

Happy Days :-P

~S~

Frontier Developments has released a new gameplay video featuring a pirate attack on a convoy.

http://youtu.be/6gMbLjUjs1w

Elite:Dangerous Kickstarter page.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...lite-dangerous