Any 'Elite' fans in the house?

It was a joke.. And since everything is always your fault (unless I've
slipped a meme or two) therefore you must be a thargoid. Because in Elite
they appear out of nowhere, blow your ship to crap and then disappear
again. Hence - in Elite everything is *their* fault (this is - of
course a *huge* leap of illogic but lets just gloss over it for now
eh?).

Ergo - you are a thargoid. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I should stop trying to be clever. It doesn't suit me. Maybe I'll just
stick to boring and predictable.

Phil.

 

You sure that wasn't an option to be turned on? I distinctly remember
newtonian physics in the original. (At least on the PC)

/me shrugs. Just a skill.

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Look, it was on the tell recently, OK?

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This one? http://demand.five.tv/Episode.aspx?episodeBaseName=C5134750003

 

I thought "Privateer 2: The Darkening" was quite similar, with more of a
plot, but even that's something like 12 years old and probably not worth
the hassle of setting up these days.

 

"Sorry this show is for UK audiences only."

But yes, that's the one.
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In message

I'm impatiently waiting for a decent Elite type game to crop up on
either console or PC. I liked Privateer, but even that's going back a
bit.

I originally played Elite on the Speccy, then got a 128k version (with
lenslok anti-piracy system). I hadn't heard about an Elite 4 and I've
given up with the 360 after seeing nothing other than mainly shooty or
racy games, apart from Fable 2 which I might have a look at.

 

Not worth the subscription IMHO, I played it for a few months before
losing interest.

 

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Yes, yes, but really - who cares?

 

Do you remember that game where there was a cup fastened to a ball by a
length of string and you had to get the ball in to the cup? Man, wasn't
that one great?

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

The original Spectrum version had that.

It was a PITA for me, 'cos my TV was bigger than they'd designed the
system to cope with.

 

Ah, I was going to ask if it was any good.

 

and this bloke whose used to be quite local to me.

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/

 

Worth the 14-day free trial though.

 

Now you're talking!

But seriously, to misquote Jesus (I think) - now I'm a man, I've put
childish things behind me. Apart from riding [1] big fast motorbikes,
of course.

[1] yes, yes, and crashing

 

They had one when my little sister was at my old upper school, but
no-one was ever allowed to use it. I did see it once, but a cover was
swiftly dragged back over it.

 

You have? What on earth for?

 

Looks like they had a bust up, over money of course:

http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/older/elite/?artid=54&pageNum=0&blk=126

 

Well, maybe. I think there's a specialist term for someone who
doesn't do *any* of those fun things: "Woman"