Name the computer game

[BeetleBug]

Hi everyone, does anyone remeber the name of this computer game I know it was on multi format for most of the p.c.'s in the eighties, The game entailed buying items for your transpoter spacecraft i.e mining lazer, docking computer ect ect, then buying your cargo minerals, food, or the definate no no (unless of course you wanted the space police after you) narcotics, slaves. You then had to plot your hyperdrive course to the space station of your choice and deliver your goods. You then had to try and dock with the rotating space station (if you did'nt have a dockin computer it was hard). Any idea's ppl??

[sixtyten]

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The Ur-Quan Masters?? also called Starcontrol

[BeetleBug]

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No I don't think it was that (thanx anyway), I know the graphics were along the same lines as the tank command arcade game alot of lines not really very detailed.

[nottrikk]

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I think you are talking about 'Elite'.

I had a poor man's BBC micro (the acorn electron) at the time and could never get up to Elite status

[sixtyten]

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Well spotted

[BeetleBug]

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Fantastic ty Nottrikk, been driving the wife mad last night with that one just could'nt remember the name.

[fat wallet]

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defo elite i played this game for days it was huge docking at the space staion was a bit tricky till you bought a auto dock did any one get to the other side of the star map

[nottrikk]

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Other side of the map and into the next three galaxies before I got bored with it (which took a hell of a long time). I just wish they'd re-release it to be compatible with modern operating systems. It wouldn't have to be upgraded or look fancy in any way, I just loved the fact that you play it many different ways and still get good gameplay.

[nogden]

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i used to love this game as a kid and would play it for hours....

you can get a pc version now called Elite the new kind and can be downloaded (i probably will get into trouble now) here

http://www.downloadfreegames.co.uk/g...ails.asp?id=37

[sixtyten]

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Cool stuff!

[Gothic]

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There is a free download version called 'oolite', you can add more ships and missions than were originally available.

[robstanley1]

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Elite 2: Frontier, by David Braben, was a much more sophisticated and involving game, with loads of groovy classical music accompanying the action.

Best of all, its been released as PC Shareware, and is available here: http://www.hooplah.com/encounters/files.htm

Unless you have a 15 year old PC, you'll probably need a freeware program called 'DOSbox', which will help to run it properly.

I've spent pretty much all of my free time, over the past few weeks, playing this....and it's excellent; retro-heaven

[stevef]

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Thanks for that info Rob. Downloaded Dosbox just in case I need it. But whilst doing that, it reminded me of a DOS game I used to play called Ecoquest 2. Managed to find a version that runs on XP along with the original Ecoquest.

[vanhelsing]

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Sounds like Elite to me.