The Making of ELITE (Computer Videogame) 1984

Ian Bell’s Elite pages: http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite In this video you’ll find the full documentary about the making of Elite with first person declarations by the authors of the game.

ELITE was a seminal space trading video game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers. The game’s title derives from one of the player’s goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of “Elite”. It was written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell, who had met while they were both undergraduates at Jesus College, Cambridge. Non-Acorn versions of the game were published by Firebird, Imagineer and Hybrid Technology.

Elite Video Game

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Fully documented source code on the BBC Micro