Elite
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. 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.
Details
- Release date
- 20 Sept 1984
- Completionist
- ≈ 200 h
- IGDB 7.9
- Genres
Shooter Simulator Strategy
- Platforms
Acorn Archimedes Nintendo MSX Amiga Atari ST/STE ZX Spectrum Amstrad CPC Commodore C64/128/MAX Tatung Einstein Acorn Electron Apple II BBC Microcomputer System DOS - Series
- Platforms
Acorn Archimedes — 31 Dec 1991 Nintendo Entertainment System — 31 Dec 1991 MSX — 31 Dec 1987 Amiga — 31 Dec 1988 Atari ST/STE — 31 Dec 1988 ZX Spectrum — 31 Dec 1985 Amstrad CPC — 31 Dec 1986 Commodore C64/128/MAX — 31 Dec 1985 Tatung Einstein — 31 Dec 1987 Acorn Electron — 31 Dec 1984 Apple II — 31 Dec 1985 BBC Microcomputer System — 20 Sept 1984 DOS — 31 Dec 1987
- Game modes
Single player
- Perspectives
First person
