Opening the box was like getting my hands on a time capsule as I found a few notes of my own (carefully typed up, of course) as well as the goodies that were bundled with the game itself. The latest version of the game is 1.06 which should be the one most accessible to those curious enough to find the game. Earlier copies were apparently quite buggy due to the publisher releasing the game before it was ready and Frontier spent a considerable amount of time releasing patches to get it in a stable form. I think I was pretty lucky in getting my hands on the “remastered version”. Thankfully it was only a couple of years later in 1995 when I had firmly settled into PCs that I found a CD-ROM copy of Frontier: First Encounters. Then when I made the jump to the Atari ST that version just wasn’t on my radar at all and when Frontier: Elite II (1993) was arriving I was just beginning to transition across to PCs for my studies and was spending a lot less on the platform. The early games had passed me by even though I was aware of them – there was no version of Elite (1984) for the Atari 8bit and it wasn’t the kind of game that interested my Commodore 64 owning friends (or me) at the time.
When I look back at the previous game in the series, turns out it did much the same! For me it neatly scratches that spacefaring itch and even when I lose millions of credits worth of ships through my own stupidity I still keep coming back for more bounty hunting and space trucking. If you’ve been reading posts here for a while you’d have little doubt that Elite Dangerous consumes a fair amount of my time despite my ever increasing pile of shame.
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