I would have paid the weight of the disk in gold to get this when I was 17...
This game was so good that I had to delete it, it ate into my productivity to a degree that really wasn't healthy so one fine morning after I saw a viper on the wall of my little Amsterdam studio I decided enough was enough and wiped the disk.
I have a serious problem with that kind of addiction and need to do radical stuff to keep myself on the straight and narrow and this was the first time that I ran into my lack of self discipline. Kudos to Braben and Bell for what they built, they really set a new standard for video games on 8 bit personal computers.
I never played the older Elite, but Elite Dangerous was/is the same for me. I love that game. I haven't played in years because I don't want to get sucked in again. I imagine the source code is significantly larger and less interesting though.
This game was so good that I had to delete it, it ate into my productivity to a degree that really wasn't healthy so one fine morning after I saw a viper on the wall of my little Amsterdam studio I decided enough was enough and wiped the disk.
I have a serious problem with that kind of addiction and need to do radical stuff to keep myself on the straight and narrow and this was the first time that I ran into my lack of self discipline. Kudos to Braben and Bell for what they built, they really set a new standard for video games on 8 bit personal computers.