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Re:Carl Sagan's idea for Contact video game (1983) [video] by foo123456 on Friday November 13, 2015 @03:42PM (#10562277)
ehrm, Elite: Dangerous actually use real data.
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Re:Carl Sagan's idea for Contact video game (1983) [video] by 6502nerdface on Friday November 13, 2015 @04:13PM (#10562424)
Yeah, the entire Elite series has always used real star coordinates and names, at least for those close to Earth.
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Re:Carl Sagan's idea for Contact video game (1983) [video] by LeoPanthera on Friday November 13, 2015 @04:20PM (#10562474)
Except for the original game, which used procedurally generated galaxies, and didn't feature Earth. This was the only way to get the game to fit into the 32K RAM of the original BBC Micro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

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Re:Carl Sagan's idea for Contact video game (1983) [video] by 6502nerdface on Thursday November 19, 2015 @05:00PM (#10598022)
You're right! It wasn't until the second game, Frontier: Elite, that they started using real stars around Sol.
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