Let's journey into deep space with Elite! C64 Longplay - Part 1
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I played Elite on my C64 back in 1985-86. I would find an ag planet with a stable government and a tech planet within range with a stable government then shuttle between the two selling food etc to the tech world and computers/tech to the ag planet. I did this for months (!!) and built up a sizable fortune of several million credits. I maxxed out the Cobra 3 with beam lasers , military shields and hyperdrive etc. Then I gave up trading and sought out anarchy systems and became a bounty hunter. I made it to Elite, but it took a long time. Right On Commander.
I did the same, back in the 80s. Original breadbin C64 with the datasette :D .... I restarted a few months ago on VICE. It is not the same feeling, but still. So I've started looking for a used C64
I spent many (read 'many' exponentially) hours playing Elite in the 80's and 90's. Now I play the open source version "Oolite". Has a multitude of expansion packs available to enhance the game play and make it more challenging.
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED ELITE!!!!!
Hey, i did never play elite on 8-bit, i did start on my Amiga 500, plus got a little bored fast due to the darn docking computer taking forever - Frontier i got stuck due not to knowing the profitable routes (was a "parallel" version)
Must have been in corona quarantine all your life if you've never played Elite. I played it every night after school for at least 6 months straight
Same here... Started with Elite II. Will need to rectify this error ASAP
@@thomassmith4999 i played it at my mates he had an acorn electron ... we also used to play star ship command
Never got to play the original but I do play Elite Dangerous. They used NASA data to map out the entire galaxy and you can go just anywhere. It is best played in VR, however.
First game I ever bought ..... I think. Probably thanks to the zzapp review. Thanks to elite I now have to “invert y-axis” on all games that allow it.
Zendal Darkman it had a great elite front cover.
Invert the y-axis...... Blasphemy that is!!!
Oh the fond memories I have about discussing that with a friend playing Elite together. Loved that game!
Me too! so that's where it's from!?
OH WOW!! Just discovered your channel! I used to play Elite for endless hours when I was around 10-12 years old. Had so much fun :D
I figured out a neat trick when I used to play that game on the C64. I used to put a little AM radio next to the C64 and tune it to a certain channel (don't remember which one) and I could pick up the sound the C64 was playing via radio wave. I would then plug an earphone output wire from the AM radio to an old tube amp and crank the audio up to MASSIVE LEVELS to my parents irritation LOL!!
These days I play "Elite: Dangerous" to relive my childhood ELITE memories ... good game .. pretty true to the old Elite philosophy :D There's even a "LAVE RADIO" podcast that I tune into from time to time
One of the few games that the ZX Spectrum could show up the C64's limitations, because the ZX Spectrum's higher CPU clock speed was simply faster at drawing these kind of vector graphics.
True, I believe the BBC was the best version
Yeah I couldn't get into the C64 version of Elite as it was so sluggish and the flickery vectors got on my nerves. Not a game that can utilise the hardware sprites or scrolling features of the C64 so it just became irritating to play if you had played other versions. In contrast if you ever play the BBC tube version on a BBC master that is the complete opposite with ridiculously fast gameplay and not a chance of winning in combat. The standard BBC master version is the best version I guess. Worst versions for me were the Apple II and MSX.
@@bonzobanana1 I played the C64 version for days on end, then later on the Amiga. The best version I saw around that time was the Acorn Archimedes.
@@Lucasrainford I seem to think of Elite as the vector versions and the polygon versions and yes the Archimedes version is the best of the polygon versions. I played quite a lot on the NES version too. I always enjoyed playing different versions. It was my favourite game for many years.
This was due to the Zilog Z80 cpu having superior 16 bit math calculations, which were so much faster than the 6502 cpu. More an inherant feature of the cpu than just outright clock speed.
I owned both the 48k spectrum and C64 back in the early days and found the C64 version of elite unplayable. They had tried to relieve the strain on the C64 by cutting out how many times it drew on screen 3D images and it caused terrible flickering.
I am not a gamer but it is obvious that this is a very well thought out game and you show how involving it is after all these years. It is so interesting how it uses our imagination to fill in the blanks and we don't even know we are doing it. Far more interesting than a simple shoot em up. Cheers and hope you make it to Elite!
I can't believe how much I enjoyed this video. It was so engrossing.
I'm old enough to remember when Elite came out and the hype surrounding it.
I never really had much interest in it at the time though. Now, thanks to you, I finally get it.
(Man, I've wasted my life)
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! More coming soon from our joint mission, so we can both waste more of our lives as you said! See you there Commander! 👍🕹
@@RetroRecipes you dont need to cheat , you can do this. consider PT1 a warm up, regroup your efforts.
GOLDEN RULES (( based of playing the best imo, Rainbird PC Version) although oolite is the best modern ish classic version of elite imo) The PC version is best played with a smaller analog square block style joystick held in the left palm with its pencil like shaft, with sprung return centering, held between the thumb and the forefinger of the right hand) similar to the PC IBM style joystick search for a CH products analog joystick or Kraft III harder to find now but still on ebay, if you can play the rainbird PC version. is there a version of the konix speedking that works on the C64?
Rules for any classic elite verison
1: never to go to any dangerous systems to begin with anarchy etc ever imagine they are effectively just no go signs on your map, riedequat is SUICIDAL early on? until you have like millitary shields and lasers etc only initially go to safe systems until you have built up, this game punishes you for mistakes like that. there is no getting round it early on.
2: trade always between tech to Agri then back agri to tech, when you find a profitable safe trade route keep exploiting it? especially a short trade route?
3: Never fight in the early part of the game unless you have to, try and run away toward the planet and roll and pitch about a bit & weave, whilst keeping the planet roughly ahead of you, circle it around the center of the compass, making it harder for them to get a hit on you, as you try and push the enemy ships of the rear of your radar closest to the bottom of the screen, sometimes you can rotate your ship to facilitate that a bit quicker when running, if you cant run away and your not in range of the safe S space station and your in a safe system, and there harming you then use the missiles or lasers in combat, even your experience of ramming them slightly off screen is viable, if shields are full, and if death happens, return to the last save. if you have spare fuel after the jump and are in trouble you might be able ships dependent to jump to another in range system to escape.
4: most importantly make sure your save capability actually works? ;)
5: buy a docking computer as soon as you can afford it, saves allot of grief, and gets you the lovely blue danube.
6: run and gun , > if this version of elite enables you to install a laser on the rear view at some point then run for the planet whilst weaving a bit and firing at those craft behind you if feasible.
7: Never get into combat with Thargoids (the tough polygonal bottle caps that killed you) if you can help it, they are deadly, missiles and lasers wont help much, staying away from dangerous systems, will help with that. anarchy systems are almost certain death early on.
8: only when you have upgraded the ship loads, at a high technology station can you really afford to branch out play wise and take on harder stuff combat role & anarchy systems etc.
9 when aligning for space station entry get real close to the entry side of the space station first, before turning to the planet center & doing your 10-15s alignment burn toward the planet to align with the space station tighter and cleaner.
10 When you are maintaining good alignment with letterbox slot you dont want to go too slowly towards the end, as the slot will be rotating out of view and and knacker you, you want to shoot into the frame faster when alignment is good ie speed up. but there is knack to it, which by the time you master it, you can probably afford the docking computer
11 in combat always constantly rotate align the enemy craft so their direction of travel is roughly up the screen and then just keep tugging them down with the joystick back to the central crosshair position to fire, preferably with them running away from you, if there heading toward you, sometimes its worth speeding up to shoot past them fast, then slowing down quickish and turning 180 to get on their tail and firing on them, in the first pc version they all have flight patterns that can be mastered combat wise.
@@beingatliberty and you edited that? Hm. Anyway, i played it on my Schneider 464 (amstrad :) and there the docking was easy to figure out, aiming at the rotation axis of the space station.
Edit: forgot to mention, asteroid lasers ftw! They never overheat.
Gavyn Sikes was a Naboo soldier or officer during the Trade federations invasion in Star Wars episode 1, he kinds looks like you, but you have better hair...
😁
To quote OB1, he's me! Bonus points to you! 🏆
Thank you so much for this video. Elite was my favourite game growing up. This is quickly turning into my favourite TH-cam channel.
Naming your player character after your Star Wars Ep. I character... slick!!!
The man’s got all kinds of geek cred!
You worked it out! 🏆
An hour of Elite ASMR
Thank you for this! One of the greatest games ever.
I remember finally saving up for a galactic hyperspace!
Bought it and used it.
It took me to some other universe where I saw a huge mother ship releasing multiple other ships (So much so that the graphics were slowed to a crawl), they all attacked me and I died.
And I didn't save the game.
Elite was its own microcosm!
I played Elite for more time that is good for a person back in the day on speccy, c64, Amiga and on pc . Drove everyone in the house mad with the Blue Danube flat out through the stereo speakers every time i docked, but strangely enough never tired of it myself . Despite the massive leaps forward in graphics nothing has even come close from the months enjoyment I got from this game .A true classic and the first of its kind that has never been surpassed.Thanks for the memories ;-)
Loved this video.....F*** i'm back at Diso lol . I still remember buying the C64 version many decades ago - such an awsome game and concept for the time. Deserves the classic status.
Another superb video Chris.... bloody love elite!!! And ahhhh tape loading too.... as you know PCB way stands for... Perfractic’s cassette? BOOM!
I had Elite Plus for DOS when I was younger. I had a lot of fun with it. I mapped trade routes to maximize cash and in one of my play throughs I earned Elite Rank.
The game came with a small novel too. I loved that, it just helped to emerse me in the world.
It was one of my favorite PC games.
I have the floppy disk version of Elite for the C64 and it's my most treasured thing from the C64 days! I remember about 3 of us at school had the game. We would play every night, and kept a journal of our gameplay. Then we would talk about our journals in school... I spent months absorbed in this game! Best gaming memories 😁
once again retro recipes brings another totally enjoyable long play video, and elite was the game i spent most of my time on in my youth when i had my C64 "bread bin", i say youth because i'm 50.
Memories!Thanks for sharing that. Bought this in 85 and was blown away by it.
I love how Puppyfratic gets involved
Can't keep her away!
I remember buying the game, going home, running the game and then.... the "Blue Danube".
Wait for part 2!
@@RetroRecipes Engage !
Came for Elite! Stayed for the co-, co-co-, and co-co-co-pilots!
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Remember, if someone asks you if you want to buy Trumbles, you say NO!
Thank you. So good spending hours in deep space again.
Love to see you play Frontier, the truly awesome sequel....
Shelter in place has been made so much more bearable thanks to you Perifractic!
Really enjoyed watching this! Would definitely love to see more long play videos like this, diving into these old games for a proper play session :)
Thank you!
Thargoids have their own ECM, so you cannot shoot a missile at them. If you destroy a ship while in the zone of a space stations, it will not open the shields at the entrance so you will crash.
Ahhhh! That's what it was!
Elite was probably the first c64 game i ever really "experienced".. even if it was just as a "co-pilot" of the older son of friends of the family.
I was so flabbergasted by the game, that about 6 months later, i finally had a full setup (second hand with containers full of pirated copies ^^). I was 9 years old then..
That was when the journey began.. and it still continues... COmputers have become a very big part of my life and will do so in the future.
ok this made my day, my fav game, your beautiful hilarious puppy flight team, awesome content from a great you tube channel...thank you!
I spent years aimless crashing into planets and getting blown up by pirates as a kid. I borrowed the tape off of a friend but with with no manual or box and was completely flummoxed with what I was supposed to do. However the atmosphere and excitement I got from the possibility of exploring space kept bringing me back. Totally wish I had this video as a guide back then!
The feat of writing Elite was even more remarkable than fitting in 64 KB of memory. On the BBC micro it fitted into just 32 KB (and also played some serious tricks with the video chip on that computer). Indeed, the actual code occupied just 22 KB. The rest of the other 10 KB of RAM was for all the other functions of the computer including the video memory.
Steve Jones the bbc micro version was true a programming masterpiece
It also wasn't randomly generated, it was pseudo-random by Fibonacci sequence so the same planets are in the same place every time you play. Francis Spufford wrote a chapter on it in his history of British ingenuity, Backroom Boys, which is a book I'd recommend.
@@Comakino I'd forgotten about Fancis Spufford's book. It's been quite a few years since I read it.
In times like this your Posts do a lot to help people stay sane. We all need distractions and a bit of calm.
I'm happy to do what I can
I wasted my childhood playing this game and enjoyed it. Thank you very much for this wonderful Episode!
"yes, it's touching" .... I lost it 😂😂😂😂.
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I met David Braben at FX17, also played BBC Elite whilst there. I played that one first time round, trying to play it again 33 years later I was terrible!
Have subbed and added you to the playlist on my channel for other CMDRs, you rock!
You ran into Thargoids on the world that was unapproachable, I think. Also, I loled hard when you mentioned "processor threads" :-) thanks for having the patience to longplay this! Elite is the best.
Mucho animo a todos con el Coronavirus,mucho animo desde españa,gracias por tus videos... Much encouragement to everyone with the Coronavirus, much encouragement from Spain ... thanks for your videos.
my favourite game of all time on the BBC B micro!! (I used to cheat to have infinite credits..). The BBC B version introduced a special feature to allow both color low resolution in the bottom and 'mono high resolution' in the top screen.(switching between the 2 modes during screen blanking)
It's funny: As you approach the planet, stars are shooting by as you slowly creep toward the planet. But who cares. I love it! :D
We sold a lot of copies of this game back when I worked at a small computer hardware and software store. I have never played this game either. It reminds me of the High Seas Trader game. I thought I would never be into watching somebody else play a game but this was quite enjoyable. Looking forward to part 2 of your intergalactic trading challenge. ; )
A big push on the Like button for playing Elite! A big slap in the face for using trainers in Elite! (Kidding, but not kidding) I'm guessing you can only have fun playing classic Elite through the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia. It was awesome back then. I've spend more money than I care to mention on PC upgrades, HOTAS' and VR (just ordered a Valve Index to replace my "old" Vive) all because that old game was so awesome. Keep up the nice content!
Great episode, perifractic! Never played the game too...but i really enjoyed your entertaining talents. Great video:)
Thank you so much!
Elite on the BBC was my joy in 1984. Happy days. And when the Master System came out... WOW!
I played a lot of Elite Dangerous, and it's quite spectacular to see how much of the feeling of that game can be traced directly to the original. Frustrations and all. I recently bought the Amiga version, thinking that it was a simple port of the original, but now I see that it has fancy graphics and everything. Maybe I should pop that in one of these days.
Really nice video, very relaxing .
I loved this game. I couldn't dock to save my life so my big brother had to do it for me until I was able to get a docking computer. lol
I have fully functioning C-64 with Elite etc, along with Sega Megadrive and PS1 & 2. These I play til I die.
Been following Retro recipes for years but not seen this yet somehow... was a MASSIVE Elite fan back in the day. Can't believe you never played it back then!
Glad you appreciated the "agony of floating in deep space" though 😂
Glad you gave it a proper run from the off, even if you didn't have the innate knowledge or remeniscence back from the day!
The game was utterly grounded breaking at the time, coded by geniuses on limited systems.
Was inevitably frustrated by your inability to comprehend 3D space! 😂 Respect.
Thanks for keeping me company with this whilst I was stuck in the house today perif
Yay that was the aim and I'm glad it was of help. More soon!
3:27 This unboxing is giving me the chills and taking me back 40 years. I can actually remember what it feels like to open the box with all of the bits in for the first time. Do you know when you get a smell of it send you flying backwards through time to a different place of happy memories? Well that’s just what happened watching this so thank you very much
I started playing this on a ZXSpectrum. I did have a co-pilot. But I was the pilot and fighter, and he was in charge of trading and keeping tabs on prices. We did really well, tons of money, Elite status and also found that Cloaking ASP ship and took its clocking device. It did take A LOT of our time. But some of the best fun I've had playing a computer game. Of course, now I play it (Elite Dangerous) on a PC, with a 3090 GPU.
Elite
Oh man oh man... i played Elite on sooo many different systems and it is a Masterpiece.
Nice to have some newcomers. It is still a very very cool experience. Every time you play you have a different Space Adventure. Nice : )
Wow, that docking at Diso took me right back to manually docking as a 10 year old. Thanks for this, great video.
One of my favourite things was using the docking computer and being entertained with "Blue Danube" while the docking is in progress.
That was my favorite game on the Commodore 64. The new version is great but you always have fondness for your first love.
Triple thumbs [I mean paws] up for bringing in the co-pilots.
That was so enjoyable to watch. I feel your pain though..😊.. when I got this game as a unwashed teenager... I lost weeks playing it. The book that came with it was really good... Never found out if it went to full publication???. Great video.. thanks.
You may have mixed feeling about it in current times - but 'back in the day', it's all we had and it was (and is) amazing!
OMG, Depeche Mode's Everything Counts was playing in 8-bit! I have to get that entire track!
I think this is it: th-cam.com/video/SoAYge8Jzd4/w-d-xo.html
I used to love this game way back, but even more impressively it ran on my 48K Sinclair Spectrum. Absolutely bloody brilliant in the day…
I'm 50 yrs old & still think the C64 Breadbin is the most beautiful computer ever made. I miss the 80s & the excitement of so many different manufacturers bringing out their own home computers.
It’s a genius masterpiece of programming! I’m still studying the source code and learning. Nobody could even today program so much in so little space! 🤯
Big Fat Dock indeed! Classic Freudian -Slit- Slip sir!
I had this on the c64 and played for years in the 80s, game was leaps and bounds ahead of what else was put there, mind blowing. Not many games if any at the time allowed you to kind of live and alternate life. I was always slightly jealous of my friends BBC version having a smoother frame rate but he didn't have cuddly little trumbles!
Spent many an hour playing Elite on my BBC model B. It is the greatest game ever on any platform. Totally immersive. Nothing will ever feel bigger than that universe!
This looks almost as good as Elite Dangerous in VR on my modern PC!
once you play the current elite in VR ther is no going back !
I became a 15-year-old recluse for 6 months after buying this game. Truly an amazing game.
OMG I loved playing this game, Good Times : )
The only version where the trimbles clog up your engines and obscure your screens if you buy them as cargo, I remember. That was the Targ at 41:00-43:00 that can trap you in 'witch space' when you hyperspace and ambush you, hopefully you have enough fuel to jump again if you survive the fight otherwise load an old game. Life ain't fair.
Good to know! Thanks.
I managed to escape witch space a few times with the help of an energy bomb lol
If you ever want to force 'witch space', hold 'J' when using hyperspace. Used to work on the Speccy though not sure about C64. I thought they were Thargoid though.
I always knew them as Thargoids, they take a lot of damage to blow them up
LOL - I remember the trumbles. If I remember correctly, fly close to a sun and the heat will kill them before they overtake your ship.
Made me chuckle, I remember many lost ships for similar reasons back in the day. Think your save didn't work because you cannot overwrite an existing file on disk. That Thargoid (alien) earlier cannot be destroyed with the energy bomb, but it's thargons (drones) can. Roll on part 2!
your cobra mk3 cockpit looks different than mine! lol! I think I may have the newer copbr mk3!. yes a current elite dangerous player here! it cool seeing the first elite game of the franchise!
I love(d) Elite! I played it way back in the 80s on the family's BBC Micro and could not believe that it was possible. I spent months and made it to Dangerous, but never Elite. There's a great documentary on here about how they wrote it and how they managed to fit the open world into a tiny footprint.
I remember, to get started, you need to grind out some trading between just 2 or 3 planets. Get enough credits to buy a scoop and the auto docking computer, then upgrade your lasers........see you in 100+ hrs ;-)
I remember that grind :)
that Mac Plus in the background looks so cute! My favorite of the compact Macs
Thankyou for the very basic start guide, i have never bothered with Elite too even though i always felt i should ive always been bobbar at it. Infact ive just bought a fully boxed copy for the ZX spectrum (i know i know) so gonna try and start so this video will come in handy.
Dogs make great copilots for airplanes but not for a space ship. They keep wanting to open the window to hang out with their tongues flapping in the vacuum.
This is an interesting looking game. I never had this one though, and was never any good at inventory management games so it’s just as well. The closest I have is Echelon from Access Software. It’s also a 3D wireframe space game, set on the “10th planet”, but the 3D rendering is far slower than this game. With stuff on the screen it’s as slow as Flight Simulator II.
Have to admit to never having played Elite either! I want to give it a go on my BBC Master Compact and this helped me understand the game dynamics first. Nice video Chris - you should maybe do more of these and maybe even a "twitch" stream now and then?
Coming up soon! Twitch... On TH-cam 😉🕹️
Haha yeah you could film your live "Twitch" and then upload to You tube :)
@@skilgannon1971 I like TH-cam Gaming. It's the same app but you might have noticed in this video, on desktop at least, it adds info about Elite below my video. For now I'll avoid Twitch as it's had some bad press and it would mean another account to administer, which takes time away from making content, but we're aiming for some live gaming right here maybe Saturday! 👍🕹️
Very cool! I've only recently checked out Twitch and I wasn't very aware TH-cam gaming did the same thing so yup - of course makes sense to adopt what you've described and I look forward to it :)
The C64, whilst for gaming superior than other 8 bits at the time in many ways, had a slower 6502 processor than the BBC. This meant that plotting vectors was considerably slower. The ZX Spectrum's version was faster than the C64, and some argue the best version. Still a great game either way.
Keep grinding 😁 also mining is pretty fun to do, so mining laser and fuel scoop is needed to do it.
Archangel Stalker (Elite)
I faintly remember a Palm game with the same "Space seller motif", but without the navigation minigame :)
Great video. I played it on the Spectrum forever until I acheived Elite status. However I always called the starting system Lave as in 'bath', not 'bathe'.
One of my all-time favourite games. Wasted so many hours playing the Acorn Electron version but ISTR it had a bug where you couldn't galactic hyperspace. Then wasted many more hours playing the Spectrum 128K version, probably my favourite. Then for good measure, a few more hours on the Amiga version. The game was simply mind-blowing in its day.
Oh man - talk about flashback. I remember playing Elite first of all on my C-64, then on my Amiga 500, then my Amiga 1200....
And then Frontier: Elite 2 on my Amigas. I was so angry that Elite 3 never made it to the Amiga.
On a C64!! I know it was available but Tube Elite is the way to go! Two processors, one rendering the UI and one the game engine!
Game over :) Simulations are so freakin' addictive!
The line flickering is to reduce the amount of time clearing the screen, setting all the pixels back to black each frame would be too slow. Instead as each line is redrawn its previous position is drawn over in black first and then its new position is rendered in white. There wasn't enough memory for double buffering where the next frame is rendered off screen before being swapped on to the display.
BBC performance was better, though, even the speccy was smoother i think
I never got into Elite but Revs wow that was my go to game, I played that to death, seemed so realistic compared to anything that came before.
Had to watch this one a second time during a lull at the office.... :)
Impressive! Most impressive...
Once you get a military laser front and rear, ecm system for incoming missiles and fuel scoops for picking off enemy cargo then it gets way more fun. The short cut is to edit the save file for a million credits. Then go and take on the Thargons in Witch space.
I used asteroid lasers, probably was too lazy to figure out how to get around the overheating of the military ones. A-lasers took maybe 10% more time (and half the number of hits) and then you just keep shooting, that is, if you get attacked by 3-4 at the same time, probably in anarchy systems.
LT Gavyn Sykes should've had his own spinoff series
Yes!! 🏆
Gavyn Sykes served as a lieutenant in the Naboo Security Forces during the Trade Federation invasion, you are a trader, thats why you picked the name
Not quite... Look at a photo of him... 🤭
Your two biggest mistakes were going to Anarchy planets and sitting still while under attack. Avoid Anarchy worlds until you get better and have better weapons, and never sit still during a fight. Also, you bought food and then kept going to agricultural worlds. Take food to industrial worlds!
General starting advice for Elite; Buy as much food as you can carry and take it to a safe industrial world. Buy as many computers as you can afford and take them to an agricultural world. When you can afford it, start buying furs from the agro worlds and selling then to the industrial ones. The best combination is a poor agricultural and rich industrial. Always try to have a full hold.
When buying upgrades, do so in roughly this order (while leaving yourself enough money for buying cargo);
Docking computer - No more manual docking required.
Extended cargo bay - The more cargo you can carry, the more you can make on each trip.
Mining laser - It's better than the pulse laser.
Extra energy unit - Makes shields recharge faster. May want this before the laser upgrade.
Fuel scoop - Free fuel from the sun and ability to scoop up cargo from destroyed ships (don't try it with a full hold).
Beam laser - Better than the mining laser.
Military laser - The best one!
Military laser - Rear mounting. Shoot enemies while running away. Note: to make rear aiming easier, pause the game and press "J" to reverse the joystick controls. You can then aim the rear laser the same as the front. Remember to switch them back for the front view.
Don't bother with side lasers, they're impractical to use in combat. They might be OK for mining asteroids and scooping up the chunks, but that pays so little that it's not worth doing.
Also, if you pause the game and press "P" it will add some lines to the planets to simulate rotation and make them look 3D.
BTW, that 8-sided ship you encountered that wasn't destroyed by your energy bombs was a Thargoid. They're the big bad alien species of Elite. To be honest, I NEVER saw one in normal space. I only ever saw them when the drive malfunctioned during a hyperspace jump and you get stranded in a void with them until your drive repairs itself and you can jump out. Even with military lasers, it's no picnic to fight them, and they can release drones to attack you as well. That said, I did once manage to destroy one with only the pulse laser. I might have had a rear one too. I'm not sure now.
Half the fun of Elite is the combat. By just using the energy bomb all the time, you're avoiding one of the things that made the game popular.
Jumping to Riedquat on your second trip was definitely a wise choice ;)
This was the game that got played the most on my c-64 back in the 80s. The game is still alive in the form of Oolite for modern computers and has lots of mods
Has anyone else noticed the 8 bit rendition of Depeche Mode-People are people in the cracked version of the game?
Such an underrated channel
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot! 👍🕹
@@RetroRecipes You're welcome. Your one is one of my fav retro channels. Along with LGR and 8 bit guy.
it was so immersive back then. unimaginable how it could work so well.
The videos on TH-cam going into the coding feat this was on the BBC micro are fascinating, written entire in Assembly .....amazing effort.
Lave, Levi and Ceefce. Yeah! Thse where the days :)
Elite is such a good game, I actually find myself craning my neck as I steer. I was disappointed the new one didn't have a full offline, solo mode.