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Re:Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video] by james-bcn on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @09:16AM (#38708917)
I am a similar age to you. How do you remember so many details from then? Did you keep a diary? Or perhaps I've just got a bad memory.

I do remember docking though!

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Re:Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video] by codeulike on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:42AM (#38710594)
I just remember that weekend very well - "the weekend I got Elite but couldn't play it for 3 days so spent ages reading the manual"
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Re:Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video] by HenryBemis on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @01:38PM (#38712037)
Memory is a strange beast.. although I had, but never played Elite, I was playing Saboteur 2.

I remember on Saboteur 2 the room where your character could 'duck'and would get god-mode/full energy. And I hadn't played the game since... I'll say 1985?

I had a nostalgia phase a couple of summers ago, found it in one of the abandonwares and with DOSBOX I played it again. Yes I could remember the room!

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