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..question!
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:56 pm
by rollen
I believe that a competition was run in the early 90's for Elite gamers. The purpose of which was to start from Lave with 100cr and see how much money, kills and sore trigger fingers you could amass in 2.5 hours.
This has been mentioned in a few publications about the PC industry but I have never really heard any detailed information such as the end rating of the winner or the amount of kills and money they gained.
Does anyone else out there have any further info or references from this antiquated but nevertheless interesting topic?
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:35 pm
by Wiggy
Didn't hear about that. The original BBC Elite gave you a code when you became ELITE. You were supposed to send back the code to Acornsoft and you got some goodies.
They stopped doing it, though, because too many people became ELITE!
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:26 am
by rollen
Yes I have read about the unexpected response from the Elite postcard. The reference to a competition was from the Guardian - I will try and find the link and post it up here. Its an interesting bit of writing.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:11 pm
by TGHC
IIRC it was when the postcards came flooding in they realised they had created something special, because the knew how many hours you had to sit at a screen to become elite.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:06 pm
by rollen
Yep. I understand that the competitor to Acornsoft looked at the game and suggested it should have "three lives and take about an average of ten minutes to play through". Thankfully the game went down the Acornsoft version!
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:18 pm
by TGHC
rollen wrote:Yep. I understand that the competitor to Acornsoft looked at the game and suggested it should have "three lives and take about an average of ten minutes to play through". Thankfully the game went down the Acornsoft version!
I think that was EMI, (I worked for them for 10years and left them in 1978!) At least they signed up the Beatles.
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:56 am
by rollen
Well I have found this excerpt from the Grauniad which gives some trivia about the game and mentions the competition as well as the very early stages of putting the game together. It is very interesting from a geek like perspective - if it was worthy I suppose a link on the OOlite site might be possible although we would have to watch out for the local star systems intellectual property laws. Enjoy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story ... 07,00.html