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Re: Games for May - No, June! - Elite Plus. (hi Syd)

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In article <1224646224913.NC-AmigaOS4.groucho@News.Individual.NET>, 
groucho@spamp.inet.fi says...
> 
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:20:59 +0100, Angus wrote:
> 
> > In article <1224116626650.NC-AmigaOS4.groucho@News.Individual.NET>, 
> > groucho@spamp.inet.fi says...
> > >  
> > > 
> > Y'see I spent a long time playing Elite where (during the lunch hour) we 
> > would try and make a successful run or two in a basic, non-upgraded 
> > ship. We loved the challenge of trying to fight your way through against 
> > the odds, although we generally avoided the most lawless systems.
> 
> I suppose you can get some short term fun that 
> way - wait a minute, are you proposing some sort 
> of competition here?  :)

Any time, any system!  :)


> 
> I remember some serious frustration when I tried 
> Elite first time - like with "Carrier Command" it 
> took me quite long time to really get into the game.

I didn't experience that - to me they just invited me in, and I stayed.  
:)

> 
> Which reminds me, how about some comments from 
> our new Elite player, Nate?  :) 
> 


Yeah, Nate!   :)

What's up, we're playing it, at your request, and where are you?!  ;)

I've now finally got the game working without glitches on my system, by 
the way. 

> 
> I remember the joy of finally buying the docking computer -
> though I had already pretty much mastered the manual docking 
> by the time I had money to buy it   :)

Which is sort of clever, because by the time docking becomes a chore, 
you can forego it, but you need to have learnt the skill.

I'm not sure about how many mission on the original Amiga verson, my 
fondest Elite memories are of the C64 version - I'm in danger of 
developing a Kiwi accent here.  ;)

The 8 bit version were very impressive, given the limitations of the 
machines, but while it remained a great game, I really hoped for more 
when it eventually came out in 16-bit flavour.


> 
> Speaking of ranks - did you make it to "Elite"? I remember it took me
> awful
> long time to reach "Dangerous" and after that I kind of lost interest.
> 


I hung on in there to deadly, but never made it to Elite, except in 
Frontier where having got to deadly, I exploited a cheat to get to Elite 
in case it triggered something cool. I don't think it did.

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