The making of Elite - Friday evening

I don't know why I'm even posting this. Nobody is going to watch it, except maybe ComJam.

Brits Who Made the Modern World
Friday 22 August, 7:30pm - 8:00pm, Five

The documentary series looking at the untold stories of British scientific innovations focuses on the development of Britain's 1.4 billion pound computer game industry. In the early 1980s, two pioneering Cambridge undergraduates set out to achieve the seemingly impossible task of developing the world's first 3-D computer game.

Right, you can all carry on talking about the latest trash US TV now.

The sequel's better.

*Sets to record*

Cheers for the heads-up, sounds very interesting.

*faith restored*

Why has this game and its awesome sequel not been re-made, i mean for gods sake they remake games which are quite new, why not these classics ( im not counting all the attempts to re create), or better yet PSN / live arcade?
Frontier Elite 2 has to be worth a few quid of anyone's money!!

I have watched the whole series so far and its been rather good so I have high hopes for this show.

What the hell happened to Elite IV anyway?

Cuttooth wrote:The sequel's better.

Debatable. It was substantially more realistic, but at the same time it was a lot less fun. Trying to fly without the autopilot was an excercise in frustration.

Will it mention Grant Kirkhope? Cause if it won't mention Grant Kirkhope, then it won't be worth watching

One of the few games to get an Edge 10 so will watch this for sure.

...Why would they mention Rare's muscian in a program about the development of Elite - a game which prefigured so many elements of todays games that when you think back on it, it's utterly astonishing?

Open world play? Yup. MMO style grinding? Check. Choose your own objective play, seen in the likes of the Sims and Animal Crossing? You betcha.

Oh, and of course, it used 3d graphics. On the BBC Micro.

Thanks for the heads-up Rinks.
I'll be watching this for sure.

There was some astonishingly efficient and elegant coding in the eighties but I think this takes the gold medal.

For some reason I understood this was a documentary about the whole British Videogame Industry, not just the development of the one game. Ignore me.

So, is this getting taped and torrented by anyone on here? Gonna try and watch it tonight, but I've got work later, so it'd be good to be able to watch it again later when I can actually give it my full attention.

TheTurnipKing wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:The sequel's better.

Debatable. It was substantially more realistic, but at the same time it was a lot less fun. Trying to fly without the autopilot was an excercise in frustration.

Hits the nail on the head really. Yes, it was more 'realistic', but all the fun had been sucked out of it. Combat was an exercise in futility compared to the original, and Frontiers especially was buggy as hell and almost impossible to patch into something half decent.

Cheers for the heads-up though rinks. I'll be watching it.

Interesting, but nothing I haven't heard before. Braben and Bell couldn't even be in the same room as each other, which was sad.

The making of Elite - Friday evening

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