The Making of ELITE (Computer Videogame)

Ian Bell’s Elite pages: In this video you’ll find the full documentary about the making of Elite with first person declarations by the authors of the game. ELITE was a seminal space trading video game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers. The game’s title derives from one of the player’s goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of “Elite“. It was written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell, w