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Elite
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Elite1984

Elite is a space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984.Elite’s open-ended game model, and revolutionary 3D graphics led to it being ported to virtually every contemporary home computer system, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history. The game’s title derives from one of the player’s goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of “Elite”.

Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D graphics with hidden line removal. It added graphics and twitch gameplay aspects to the genre established by the 1974 game Star Trader. Another novelty was the inclusion of The Dark Wheel, a novella by Robert Holdstock which gave players insight into the moral and legal codes to which they might aspire.

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  • Genres

    Shooter
    Simulator
    Strategy

  • Themes

    Action
    Business
    Open world
    Sandbox
    Science fiction

  • Game modes

    Single player

  • Perspective

    First person

  • Platforms

    Tatung Einstein
    Acorn Archimedes
    Acorn Electron
    Amiga
    Amstrad CPC
    Apple II
    Atari ST/STE
    BBC Microcomputer System
    Commodore C64/128/MAX
    DOS
    MSX
    Nintendo Entertainment System
    ZX Spectrum

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  • Releases

    Apple II: 1985 NA
    DOS: 1987 NA

  • Developers

    Acornsoft
    Frontier Developments
    David Braben
    Ian Bell

  • Publishers

    Hybrid Technology
    Firebird
    Merlin Software U.K.
    Imagineer
    Acornsoft
    Digital Integration

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