Monday Evening trivia * Winner * Su1c1daL *

[Aria]

I have an interesting little device here for our next prize...

It is a Multi-view adapter worth £40
http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-518.shtml

You have until 10pm to tell me the answer to the following:

What did 2 Cambridge undergraduates release in 1984 that was to define an entire genre, and remains one of the finest games ever made?

[Gav]

Elite! Awesome game.

[SENTY]

Elite :) how fast was thAt

[BigIan88]

Elite :)

[SENTY]

bah gav hax

[BigIan88]

Damn - you 2 beat me to it by a few seconds!

[zaz]

*sob* will we ever see another in the series ?

Elite !

[Rhys]

Elite :D

[Andrew Moore]

Elite :)

Andy

[Skeese]

I'll add to, even though you guys beat me to it.. Elite.

[f12f12]

Elite, sounds like a good game

[Toonshorty]

Elite.

[Chris145]

Elite :)

[Hydey]

Elite ^_^

[Lynx]

1337 (Elite)

[ChrisJB]

Elite.............

[randomowner]

Elite

[scrivz69]

Elite.:confused:

[guardy]

Elite

brings back memories! :)

[foxtrot26]

darn too slow but elite

[Oscar99]

Elite :)


I've never seen anything like that before (Prize)

[DoubleTop]

Elite! Awesome game.

you're going to be making the tea in the morning now then :D


I'll add to, even though you guys beat me to it.. Elite.


darn too slow but elite

Not a post-first competition :cool: IF you're right it's prize draw :)

DT.

[Su1c1daL]

can you do some of these after some of us mere mortals get home from work ;)



anyways it's elite

[R1gg4]

Elite.

[Shakyj]

elite :)

[/)zh]

Elite

http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/9517/elitebbc.jpg

... heard it was AWESOME .... but never played it

[Zaim]

Elite

[Robin]

I'm having a nostalgia attack here... I played Elite on the BBC B in 1984. Had to load it by cassette too :D

[Nick42]

It was Elite

[Broadsword1976]

Elite - I never played it tho..... but without it I guess there would have been no Codename:MAT or Captain Blood, which I did.

[zaz]

Oolite (http://www.oolite.org/about)

Frontier First Encounters reboot (http://www.spacesimcentral.com/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=255)

Get your Elite kicks with these :D

[FlasH]

Elite! I hate those first come first serve comps, so gay as I'm at work all day and don't get the opportunity to check often

[Pullen]

Elite

[Visibleguy]

Elite.

[ZodiarK]

Elite :)

[sunjoo]

elite

[fullfatmilk]

Elite

[theelusiveyoda]

the legend that is.................. Elite

[Sniperdude]

Elite :thumb:

[alex24]

Elite.

That's some old skool gaming right there! A slightly enlightening and amusing quote from David Braben:


We wanted a huge world, but we had 22K of memory--which is probably even less than a single Frontier icon today. That meant there were probably only a dozen places we could create, which wasn't what we wanted to do. So what we did was we compressed the world, and this trickery gave us huge galaxies to explore. Initially we had way more than the eight galaxies [in the game]. For instance, we threw away a whole galaxy because it had the word "****" in it.

[sb89]

Elite :)

[Smifis]

Elite?
Released on the 20th September 1984

[Mr. Strawberry]

pacman :P
lol
elite

[Aria]

Yes of course Elite! I was hoping to catch out some of our younger gamers there, but I see that I was foiled :)

[Mr. Strawberry]

i must admit pacman did come to mind first :D

[Gav]

Changed title to closed now that answer has been given :)

[Oscar99]

i must admit pacman did come to mind first :D

Doom was the first thing that came to my mind lol.

[guardy]

I never played the first one, but i owned & played frontier elite II :)

[Aria]

My Excel spreadsheet has produced a winner... and that is....

Su1c1daL!

Congratulations!

[Gav]

Congratulations :)

[sb89]

Well done Su1c1daL :)

[Andrew Moore]

Congrats dude!!

These comps are going to ruin you if your not careful aria :P


Andy

[ZodiarK]

not with a 35m+ turnover it aint..

[Sniperdude]

well done mate

[Robin]

Turnover might be down this month when everyone is playing Elite on the network ;)

[Gav]

I'm taking that as permission ;)

[Broadsword1976]

Well done!
- My first thought was Dizzy by those Codemaster boys (the Darlings?) but I think that might have been slightly later...

Edit: just Wiki'd - it was the Oliver twins...think I got confused because Your Sinclair called them the Darling Boys or summat.

[Gav]

Dizzy was '86 I believe. That was a fantastic series too :lol:

[FlasH]

Yes of course Elite! I was hoping to catch out some of our younger gamers there, but I see that I was foiled :)

I had no idea and I couldnt be bothered to google, a simple scroll was all I needed!

[Robin]

I think we need a whole new retro gaming thread...

[Broadsword1976]

It'll only kick right off when the Spectrum/Commodore Atari/Amiga fanboys clash....

Hell yeah, I'm up for it.

[Gav]

Pfft, everyone knows Amstrad CPC was the best.

[Robin]

Nonsense.... BBC Model B > all

:D


Edit:
In my infancy Philips G7000 Videopac > all

In my youth BBC B >all

in my teens Amiga 500 > all

that should show how old I am...

[Broadsword1976]

Pah! my Specky 48k+ with MGT 3.5" DSDD, Plus D and Two-Face would have urinated on both those antiques from a great height.

[AndyCSM@Aria]

well Done Su1c1daL!

PM your details and i will ship your prize.

Thanks

Andy

[Su1c1daL]

awww shucks I'm gonna gush in a min, this is the first thing I've won.....ever :)


Nonsense.... BBC Model B > all




Edit:
In my infancy Philips G7000 Videopac > all

In my youth BBC B >all

in my teens Amiga 500 > all

that should show how old I am...

don't forget the acorn electron and atari st


well Done Su1c1daL!

PM your details and i will ship your prize.

Thanks

Andy:)

[Broadsword1976]

In my infancy Philips G7000 Videopac > all



Yay I thought I was the only sucker ever to own one.....

[wonderlust]

USed to run Elite and Elite 2 on my ST, I paid to have the CPU upgraded to a 68020 10Mhz and a friend with a PC was jealous my ST would run Elite 2 better than his PC