Oolite Bulletins

Just past 40 here (Well 41 actually), so had to vote 40-50.

Started playing on the C64 in 1984. Ordered it from the UK as it had not been released back home yet. (Still have the box with all content and the receipt in it). Strange thing was, we were about 10-15 friends who had C64s, but only I played Elite. Finally after about one year a one other guy started, but he couldn't leave it alone and became Elite before me. (School and military service came in the way)

I actually only made Elite on the C64 many years later when I by chance found out how you could look into the save game to see how far away you were from elite. Turned out that I had 86 kills left, so I played myself up to Elite that night.

This commander belongs to the 30 something group.

I don't feel that Elite will ever die in spirit. Even if should Oolite fall by the wayside in the future (perish the thought) no doubt some one will create another recreation to replace it.

Classic games never die, the just get reinterpreted.

Oolite will last quite a while longer, I would think that most of the younglings like myself would spread the game and keep playing.

The thing is with the number of kills needed I honestly can't see how someone would be able to get to elite on a specy. You would have to play for days with no saves and hope there wasn't a crash.

Even now it takes a month or 2 to get to elite with all the add ons. More if your not really going for it.

ClymAngus wrote:

The thing is with the number of kills needed I honestly can't see how someone would be able to get to elite on a specy. You would have to play for days with no saves and hope there wasn't a crash.

Believe it or not, you could save the game on a speccy: all you needed was a tape recorder & a C10 (back in the day they used to sell C10 'computer cassettes')...

I've still got a stack of Boots own brand C15's (7 and a half minutes each side) full of turbo load versions of the games I owned - they loaded faster cracked and turbo'd off the cassette then they did off the 1541 floppy drive.

qwow, iv been wanting to make a post like this, but thought it would be rude, good idea

30 something for me..... been playing computer games since i was a kid too

had elite on my brothers old atari st, have a ps3 now.