Honouring the Legacy: A Nostalgic Look at the Original Elite on BBC Micro

[@Mecha_Gear]

I remember coming from school, loading up Elite on that C64 and making some coffee in the meantime, because loading from a Datasette would give you enough time to do this and more.

[@SpacefaringChronicles]

Exactly this, it was easily a 10 minute wait if not longer, when we got that disc drive it was literally a game changer :-)

[@Zeenixx]

This is so funny, I also got a BBC computer when I was a kid and played Elite on it, returned for a year ago but have not really had the time to get into the game before now. Thank you! 😃

[@SpacefaringChronicles]

No problems, I've gone back to Elite Dangerous multiple times, I'd love to be able to play more but work and family life conspire against me :-)

[@diagonalcircle9553]

Great video, I started my elite journey on the Amiga 500. Still flying. Elite making a true galaxy as far as humanly possible remains an amazing feat. Also, the sound design in Dangerous is just beyond belief! Hope to see you in the black.

[@SpacefaringChronicles]

The Amiga 500 was one machine I wished we'd owned I certainly feel like I missed out on some Computing history. Yes I agree with you on the Sound Design in Elite Dangerous, it's not credited enough.

[@emmjaye7767]

Even today the game remains a technical wonder. You can't deny that a 1:1 ratio recreation of the Galaxy is an amazing feat. I read somewhere that since the Kickstarter, players have only explored about 0.003% of said Galaxy. That may not look like a huge number, but when you consider the size of the Galaxy, that's actually a whooping percentage of the Galaxy.

[@SpacefaringChronicles]

Each iteration of the games in the Elite series have really pushed the boundaries of the machines they were designed to run on, plus the scale of the galaxies you can explore. The current iteration in Elite Dangerous is just an absolute crazy scale and yes I also read a similar figure to what you quoted (0.03%).