Elite

119 - Elite

Year: 1984
Platform(s): PC
Designer(s): Ian Bell & David Braben
Developer: Ian Bell & David Braben
Publisher: Acornsoft

"[T]he merest mention of Elite is enough to have most 30-something men sobbing into their beer glasses and moaning that they 'don't make 'em like they used to'. An epic space trading game that introduced freeform gaming to a digital world hemmed in by progressively tougher levels and bosses - instead giving players the liberty to tackle the quest in pretty much any way they wanted - Elite was the catalyst for a million space adventures and will be cited for decades to come as a major influence on every games designer in the Western world." - Empire

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