I think it's Frontier: First Encounter, which is a 1995 game that's the precursor to E:D in the Elite series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_First_Enc

I think it's Frontier: First Encounter, which is a 1995 game that's the precursor to E:D in the Elite series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_First_Encounters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_First_Encounters I don't see how E:D is inferior to it, but YMMV.