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Quote: Elite classic video games remake seeking backers
Classic video game Elite is getting a 21st Century makeover.
David Braben, one of the creators of the original, is seeking £1.25m ($2m) via Kickstarter to fund the updated version.
Called Elite: Dangerous it will involve the same mix of interstellar travel, trading, piracy and spaceships as the original 8-bit game.
Yes I say, yes!
Also, please God, make it so awesome that we have to find a new word for how awesome it is.
#salivation#
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I read this earlier and my heart sank when I saw that people who donate will be able to influence the game design.
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Coooool - where can I donate?
I wanna introduce a space-pirate that hails the player and demands "GIMME CODEZ!"
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Will it be like the latest (hopefully last) version of Duke Nukem where the highlight of the game was throwing poop at the enemy ?
 
Nihil obstat
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NO! It will be awesomely awesome with an awesome dollop of awe!!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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So you'll be throwing dollop of awe at teh enemy?
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No, the highlight was slapping the big boobs hanging out of the spaceship walls.
"So wrong, yet so right."
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Pretty please, with sugar on, can it start with a frickin' docking computer?
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Was it really that hard?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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With a Keyboard? On An Amstrad 1640?
Yes. it was a PITA - you fight through the f'in pirates to get somewhere, and crash at the last stupid minute trying to dock so you can go down the pub...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Save game then dock. Simples!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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IIRC you could only save in the station on the PC version.
Otherwise I would have done my usual "kill it-save-kill it-save-die-reload-die-reload" cycle! 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Like I remember 30 years ago. I hardly remember 30 minutes ago!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Gin does that to a man. 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Gin and beer and wine and vodka and whiskey and rum and ...
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Oh well, you know what they say about mixing your drinks...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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What? That I'm very good at mixing my drinks?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Soon becomes a case of dicking your minx.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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She's still at work.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I played it on my friend's BBC.
(He was one of the rich kids (ie spoilt bastards) whose parents bought him the Beeb, whereas I had to make do on the awesomely cheap Speccy).
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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...and that was about the only awesome thing about it...
I had to play it on a slide rule until I got my first real job in computers!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Slide rule! That's technical Nirvana mate!
When I was a kid, I was lucky to be able to have use of the bag of stones!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Stones?
You lucky bastard.
We used to dream about stones.
All we have were lumps of horse sh*t.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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A whole horse sh*t?
Luxury!
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OriginalGriff wrote: can it start with a frickin' docking computer?
That's like programming with a garbage collector. Where's the fun?
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