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

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On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:03:10 +0100, Angus wrote:

> 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!  :)

Any proposals about the rules?   :)

> > 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.  
> :)

Hmmm  :)

> > 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.

Yeah, but it is a sort of anti-climax imho. 

> 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.

I enjoyed the Amiga version more - mainly because it was 
much easier to save and reload the game when you died.
Which I did a lot  in that game  :)

> > 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.

Do you know if it triggered anything in the original game?

  Bye,

   Seppo

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