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Happy 40th Birthday to probably one of the most important and influential computer games ever written, Elite.

#Elite #Elite40 #Retrocomputing #BBCMicro

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/

The start screen for the original BBC Micro disk version of Elite. It features a line-drawn Cobra Mk III spaceship with the game title "ELITE" printed above it and "Load New Commander (Y/N)? (C) Acornsoft 1984" below.

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what's under the cobra's hood
Iain Thomson (The Register)
#retrocomputing #elite #elite40 #bbcmicro

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