>Starquake was truly exceptional...and Jet Set Willy had his
>moment in the spotlight too... but what *really* revolutionised
>game playing on the Spectrum was...
>
>...was...
>
>...Elite.
It could be argued that Elite revolutionised gaming on a number of home computers. I have fond memories of myself and the other lads in my class being banned from using computers at school out of hours because of a hooky copy of Elite for the Beeb - we spent so much time playing it none of the girls could do their Computer Studies projects :-) I lost the race to become the first in my class to achieve 'Elite' status, but not by much ... great days.
Credit where it's due, the Speccy version was pretty good, certainly a lot better than the car-crash of a version that was produced for the C64 but the canonical version of 'Elite' had to be the Beeb version ;-)
I'm amazed that nobody has mentioned 'Chuckie Egg' yet ... a game so addictive it should have carried a government health warning.
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>Starquake was truly exceptional...and Jet Set Willy had his
>moment in the spotlight too... but what *really* revolutionised
>game playing on the Spectrum was...
>
>...was...
>
>...Elite.
It could be argued that Elite revolutionised gaming on a number of home computers. I have fond memories of myself and the other lads in my class being banned from using computers at school out of hours because of a hooky copy of Elite for the Beeb - we spent so much time playing it none of the girls could do their Computer Studies projects :-) I lost the race to become the first in my class to achieve 'Elite' status, but not by much ... great days.
Credit where it's due, the Speccy version was pretty good, certainly a lot better than the car-crash of a version that was produced for the C64 but the canonical version of 'Elite' had to be the Beeb version ;-)
I'm amazed that nobody has mentioned 'Chuckie Egg' yet ... a game so addictive it should have carried a government health warning.