[PC, Mac] Free - Elite (1984) @ Frontier

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For those that want to travel back to 1984.

Experience the classic space trading game, Elite, as released on the BBC Model B in 1984, by Ian Bell and David Braben.

From the original box description: "Command your Cobra space ship in a fantastic voyage of discovery and adventure, a supreme test of your combat, navigational and entrepreneurial skills. Trade between countless planets, using the proceeds to equip your ship with heat-seeking missiles, beam lasers and other weapons - corporate states can be approached without risk, but unruly anarchies may be swarming with space pirates. Black market trading can be lucrative but could result in skirmishes with local police and a price on your head!

However you make your money, by fair means or foul, you must blast onwards through space annihilating pirate ships and hostile aliens as you strive to earn your reputation as one of the Elite!"


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This has been permanently free since 2014 (at least). Original long running deal post.

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Comments

  • +1

    People might also be interested in Oolite , which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux :)

  • This got me into Elite…my favourite is Elite : Frontier First Encounters

    • I loved that game too. Just the bugs got real tiring!!

      • +1

        Yes the bugs were terrible but I just 'worked around it'.

        Only last year did I finally achieved getting the Thargoid…now it's boring as the Thargoid cannot be taken down with 1,000 Shield Generators and the 'standard' Thargoid Cannon.

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