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Elite is a space trading and combat simulation video game series created by David Braben and Ian Bell in 1984. The Elite series has been revolutionary innovative, genre defining, and the longest running space sim series in history. [1] [2] The series was met with commercial success, favorable reviews and near-universal acclaim.
Space trading and combat simulators. The main article for this category is Space trading and combat simulator. This genre of computer and video game simulates trading and combat in outer space; as exemplified by Elite . They are often arcade-like in mechanics, as opposed to pure space flight simulators .
Website. oolite .space. Oolite is a free and open source 3D space trading and combat simulator "in the spirit of" Elite, a similar game published in the 1980s. The name is a contraction of object oriented Elite, because it was written in Objective-C, an object-oriented programming language.
Release. 20 September 1984. Genre (s) Space trading and combat simulator. Mode (s) Single player. Elite is a space trading video game. It was written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984. [1]
Early attempts at 3D space simulation date back as far as 1974's Spasim, an online multi-player space simulator in which players attempt to destroy each other's ships. The earliest known space trader dates to 1974's Star Trader , a game where the entire interface was text-only and included a star map with multiple ports buying and selling 6 ...
WW: March 4, 2003. Genre (s) Space trading and combat simulator. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Freelancer is an American space trading and combat simulation video game developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is a chronological sequel to Digital Anvil's Starlancer, a combat flight simulator released in 2000.
Pioneer. Pioneer is a free and open source space trading and combat simulator video game inspired by the commercial proprietary Frontier: Elite 2. [5] [6] It is available for Linux, and Microsoft Windows .
Genre (s) Space trading and combat simulator. Mode (s) Single-player. Wing Commander: Privateer is an adventure space trading and combat simulator computer game released by Origin Systems in September 1993. Privateer and its storyline is part of the Wing Commander series. The player takes the role of Grayson Burrows, a "privateer" who travels ...