First played Elite in 1984 on a mate's BBC B. But I didn't set off from Lave properly until almost 6 months later. My Dad was a High School Physics teacher, who (after seeing Elite) decided that he had to "borrow" a school BBC B for *ahem* "teaching purposes."
Naturally he had to test at home all the Educational Science Programmes that were being released by MicroPower, Acornsoft etc, before trying them out on his pupils. The fact that this allowed him to play a space trading game with his son was of course, entirley co-incidental.
Then left Lave in 1985 aged 13 (BBC B Disk Version!).
BTW: Isn't the age range an almost perfect "normal distribution curve"? Turn the poll on its side and draw a line of best fit!
OXPS : The Assassins Guild, Asteroid Storm, The Bank of the Black Monks, Random Hits, The Galactic Almanac, Renegade Pirates can be downloaded from the Elite Wiki here.
Interesting. Sherman did say that regarding battle casualty figures in the newspapers. Possible he lifted it from Twain I suppose. I doubt the comment about if he was to shoot all the journalists he was sure there would be news from hell by dinnertime was Twains though.
"There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics" W.T Sherman
Started Elite on a ZX Spectrum and spent an absurd amount of hours on it. Made it to deadly and then somehow life started getting more serious, so I had to stop. Some years after I discovered EliteGL (an OGL port of TNK) and I was really happy that I had a nice version of my fav game for the PC (Elite Plus was an insult to Elite IMHO and the world would be a better place without it). A few years after TNK was pulled from the Internet, I found Oolite and that was it, really. I'm back in childhood and I feel great about it.
Enough being mellow, though, excuse me while I go kill some pirates/thargs/whatever.
Started Elite with C-64, then went to Amiga and after a very long break I found Oolite.
Of course, FFE had its spin somewhere in there as well.
Author of Tales from the Frontier - official Elite 4 anthology.
Author of Marcan Rayger adventures - unofficial fan-fic novellas set in the Frontier universe.
Played Elite on my Electron in 1984! Oh my god I played it for 6 hours straight - unheard of at that time. Hooked ever since. I thought I'd never need to play another game ever again. yeah right.
me...I'm 20...I remember waaaaaaaay back in the good ol' days of a week or two ago when I installed the autopackage Oolite on the Ubuntu side of my computer...I was browsing Synaptic package manager looking for a good looking game after having watched several hours of Space Battleship Yamato season one and Oolite caught my eye (prolly because I still had space on the brains)...I've been playing Oolite ever since...
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Is there anything more enjoyable than watching a hOOpy casino collide with an open wormhole and get transported to a poor lawless system
"Will said skills pay the bills?" - Professor Farnsworth from Futurama
Sh.t, I am so old...
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I played Elite on Spectrum or Oric for the first time. Probably around 84.
Oups I forgot...
This is a lognormal distribution curve, the curve is assymetric because of a funny fact called death.
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
