What game started it all?

[sscadmin]

What game introduced you or brought you back to space gaming?There is a lot of them out there but I would have to say Wing Commander 1&2. After playing them and there sequels I was hooked for life and went out of my way to find and play any space genre style game.

[CaptainKal]

The Amiga version of Elite. And then it was F.O.F.T. (of Federation of Free Traders), an underappreciated elite clone.

[Stardreamer]

It all started for me with Elite 2: Fontier and also Starglider2 on the Atari ST. Good times.

[CaptainKal]

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It all started for me with Elite 2: Fontier and also Starglider2 on the Atari ST. Good times.
Another comrade from the home computer days.

[Pinback]

Elite on the Amstrad also had a lot of fun with Starion and Darkstar(a starwars clone).

[CaptainKal]

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Elite on the Amstrad also had a lot of fun with Starion and Darkstar(a starwars clone).
Another one from the old days. Check 3D Starstrike, for an excellent remake.

[sscadmin]

CaptainKal wrote:


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Elite on the Amstrad also had a lot of fun with Starion and Darkstar(a starwars clone).
Another one from the old days. Check 3D Starstrike, for an excellent remake.
You can find that in the download area here: http://www.spacesimcentral.com/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=171I do remember also playing elite on my C64, who says 8-16bit graphics are not good

[CaptainKal]

You can also check this: The 25th Aniversary of Elite[url]http://elite.frontier.co.uk/[/url]

[Pinback]

CaptainKal wrote:
You can also check this: The 25th Aniversary of Elite[url]http://elite.frontier.co.uk/[/url]
What I find staggerlying hard to belive is that they have not released the game on the console download services.Most game devs would kill to have an anniversary like that.Can onlyput it down to the fact that there must still be problems between Braben and Bell?.

[sscadmin]

Got to love copyright laws :)I would say they are squandering a great opportunity in releasing just a updated version of the Elite series on the consoles. Just update the ship models and interface and sell it on the psn and xbox live for $5 per download.But on another note....I have always wanted a sequel to Starlancer..... where is it....?

[Stardreamer]

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I would say they are squandering a great opportunity in releasing just a updated version of the Elite series on the consoles. Just update the ship models and interface and sell it on the psn and xbox live for $5 per download.
I completely agree, Darkone. Such a great opportunity to hook new players...and put a smile on the face of us oldies! And if, as keeps being reported year after year, you're working on an official sequel to one of the best games of all time, what better way to ensure you've got as broad a market as you can to sell that new game to? People fired up by playing a shiny, 21st century version of the classic that still blows all other competition out of the water??I don't mean to be a cynic, but when golden opportunities like this one are allowed to slip past you really do have to question just how much of Braben's talk is merely to appease people who keep bothering him about it.I've never played Starlancer. Is it good?

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Stardreamer wrote:
I don't mean to be a cynic, but when golden opportunities like this one are allowed to slip past you really do have to question just how much of Braben's talk is merely to appease people who keep bothering him about it.
Braden was on Twatter the other day answering some carefully vetted questions.But he hintedat the possibility of doing something?.So they may be having second thoughts about it.

[Stardreamer]

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But he hintedat the possibility of doing something?.So they may be having second thoughts about it.
The Long Wait continues...[sigh]

[sscadmin]

I thought once Frontier Developments was done with their game 'The Outsider', work would start on Elite 4? Because right now that is the only game in there queue that they are speaking of so Elite 4 would be the next step we hope.Here is a quote I found:
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In 2009, in an interview with the BBC to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original game, Braben confirmed that the game was still in development, saying, "We'd be mad not to go back to the world of Elite and I'm very excited about it," and adding that it would be released only "when its ready."

[Cambragol]

The game that got me hooked had no name that I knew of. I played it back in the late 70's on the mainframe of a Synchrotron facility (basically a particle accelerator facility) where my uncle was doing research. It was a Star Trek simulation, in which your ship was represented by a big...S...and you flew around a tiny screen...maybe 30 characters by 30 characters, engaging various aliens, exploring sectors, etc. It made Pong look positively primitive, albiet not graphically. I was hooked after my first game, and thereafter repeatedly begged my uncle to take me back to the Synchrotron facility so I could play some Trek.

[swiftdraw]

Star Wars TIE Fighter on a demo collection disc way back when. Played one of the opening levels in a TIE/In shooting down Y-wings and Headhunters and decided I had to have the game. After that, it all went down hill I guess

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Cambragol wrote:
I was hooked after my first game, and thereafter repeatedly begged my uncle to take me back to the Synchrotron facility so I could play some Trek.
Cambragol you might be interested in this WIP, its called Star Trek Excalibur - http://www.stexcalibur.com/They are doing some great work on this one and STO's beta enrollment just started too
swiftdraw wrote:
Star Wars TIE Fighter on a demo collection disc way back when. Played one of the opening levels in a TIE/In shooting down Y-wings and Headhunters and decided I had to have the game.
Can someone tell me why George Lucas made the decision to stop making this series....? Great bunch of games there.

[Cambragol]

Darkone wrote:
Cambragol you might be interested in this WIP, its called Star Trek Excalibur - http://www.stexcalibur.com/They are doing some great work on this one and STO's beta enrollment just started too
Heh, actually not much of a Star Trek fan. For example, the only one of the movies I really enjoy is the first one. Thanks for the suggestion though, but I lean toward much harder sci fi than Star Trek. Or at least lower tech. Heck, a Space 1999 game would get my blood pumping. Maybe. Freehauler..etc.

[Pinback]

Darkone wrote:
Can someone tell me why George Lucas made the decision to stop making this series....? Great bunch of games there.
Didnt the X wing series of game mutate into the Rogue Squadron game on the N64/Gamecube?.I hear that theres a rumor that they may be making a comeback.

[CaptainKal]

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Can someone tell me why George Lucas made the decision to stop making this series....? Great bunch of games there.
Because he stopped making PC Games. The last one I remember was "Starfighter". (And he also stopped making console space fighter games. The last one was "Jedi Starfighter").