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Elite is a famous, popular (it eventually sold one copy of the BBC Micro version for every BBC Micro in the world at the time) and historically significant [[Simulation Game|game]], one of the earliest in the [[Wide Open Sandbox]] genre. It was written by David Braben and Ian Bell, and first released in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. In the game you start on Lave Station with 100 credits and a lightly armed trading ship, a Cobra Mark III. From here you seek fame, fortune and money via one of the many, many, different options open to you. You can:

'''''Elite''''' is a famous, popular (it eventually sold one copy of the BBC Micro version for every BBC Micro in the world at the time) and historically significant [[Simulation Game|game]], one of the earliest in the [[Wide Open Sandbox]] genre. It was written by David Braben and Ian Bell, and first released in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. In the game you start on Lave Station with 100 credits and a lightly armed trading ship, a Cobra Mark III. From here you seek fame, fortune and money via one of the many, many, different options open to you. You can:

* Collect bounties, which is dangerous.

* Become a pirate, which is more dangerous.

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It has been cited as inspiration for [[EVE Online]], [[Freelancer]], [[Jumpgate]], [[Infinity the Quest For Earth]], [[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]: Privateer, the [[Escape Velocity]] series and the X series of space trading games, freeware [[Vega Strike]] (there's also "Elite Strike" mod, but its development seems to fall into dormancy). There is now also a free, open-source remake, [[Oolite]] (so named because it uses object-oriented programming), which has a fairly dedicated [[Game Mod|modding]] community.

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* [[Ace Pilot]]: The eponymous Elite rankings (Harmless, Dangerous, Elite, etc.) are a metric to measure how much of one the player is.

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