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Elite – one of my first obsessions is 25 years old

The other day marked the 25th aniversary of Elite – a open-world space trading and flying sim game that I played when I was a kid. I remember quite clearly going to a computer fair back in Wellington at age 7 or so and seeing this cool game.  I bought (with my own money none the less) a ZX Spectrum+ (48k of memory!) and Elite. I was terrible at it to be honest but it marks the beginings of my love of computer game. It was an ‘open-world’ game in a way that very few games have been since – within the context you could do whatever you liked. There was no story or allocated missions. There was just … space.

So thanks for the memories!

(video via Offworld)

Tags: David Braben, Elite, PC game, video game, ZX Spectrum