Each planet in those systems had its own legal system, economy and so on. In it were eight galaxies each with 256 star systems. This is less than a single typical email today. The original “Elite” fitted into around 22K of memory, out of a total of 32K on the BBC Micro Model B computer on which it was launched (8K was needed for the screen, 2K for the system). We were sick of games with three lives then a new life every 10,000 score we wanted something new. Ian Bell and I set out to make a game for ourselves rather than for some imagined market. It was the first true 3D game too, and set many other benchmarks. It was the first ‘open world’ game in which the player can freely roam a vast space. “Elite” has gone down in history as one of the most successful games of the 1980s.
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