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Ian Bell, author of Elite, claimed that the NES version was his personal favorite 8-bit version of Elite. (He liked the 32-bit Archimedes port the best overall

Ian Bell, author of Elite, claimed that the NES version was his personal favorite 8-bit version of Elite. (He liked the 32-bit Archimedes port the best overall.)

pipes 3y ago
But they removed trading slaves and narcotics! :) (I think)
- MarkMoxon 3y ago
  Indeed - "slaves" got changed to "robot slaves", while "narcotics" became "rare species" and "liquor/wines" became "beverages". You can still trade firearms, though, so its not entirely squeaky clean...
  - toast0 3y ago
    Nintendo would have had a hell of a time censoring firearms from videogames. Nudity, slavery, narcotics, and alcohol are easy; violence and firearms form the basis of many/most popular video games. Probotector is Contra @50Hz with all humans replaced by robots, but still lots of firearms and violence.
    - pipes 3y ago
      I never understood why UK and Europe got probotector instead of contra, maybe it was due to Germany's very strict game censorship?
      - toast0 3y ago
        Yeah, that's my guess. Violence towards humans in video games was often prohibited in Germany, so drop it for the whole region, because two releases is hard.
dabeeeenster 3y ago
Arch Elite is the pinnacle for sure.
- chrisjj 3y ago
  > Arch Elite is the pinnacle for sure. Aw, blush :) - Chris Jordan, publisher of Arch Elite.
helpfulContrib 3y ago
The recent Oric Atmos fan make is pretty nice, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1cJGLGlxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1cJGLGlxo
MarkMoxon 3y ago
The quote is: My greatest published achievements technically would have to be fitting BBC Cassette "Elite" into 32K of RAM including the screen, and later the Nintendo Entertainment System conversion of "Elite" that used a character mapped display and a single NES controller. The NES is my favourite published conversion and was not thought technically feasible until we'd done it. See http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/b5081501.htm http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/b5081501.htm for the full interview I interpret this as meaning his favourite version is the BBC Micro cassette version, while his favourite conversion is the NES one. But I'm a BBC fanboy, so that might just be me being hopeful. :-)
- chrisjj 3y ago
  > while his favourite conversion is the NES one favourite /published/ conversion :)
- bitwize 3y ago
  The CHR ROM on NES Elite was actually RAM... allowing for something akin to "bitmap mode" on the TI-99/4A or C64 where they can use the CHR memory as a framebuffer in which to draw those vector graphics.

Ian Bell, author of Elite, claimed that the NES version was his personal favorite 8-bit version of Elite. (He liked the 32-bit Archimedes port the best overall.)

pipes 3y ago

But they removed trading slaves and narcotics! :) (I think)

MarkMoxon 3y ago
Indeed - "slaves" got changed to "robot slaves", while "narcotics" became "rare species" and "liquor/wines" became "beverages". You can still trade firearms, though, so its not entirely squeaky clean...
- toast0 3y ago
  Nintendo would have had a hell of a time censoring firearms from videogames. Nudity, slavery, narcotics, and alcohol are easy; violence and firearms form the basis of many/most popular video games. Probotector is Contra @50Hz with all humans replaced by robots, but still lots of firearms and violence.
  - pipes 3y ago
    I never understood why UK and Europe got probotector instead of contra, maybe it was due to Germany's very strict game censorship?
    - toast0 3y ago
      Yeah, that's my guess. Violence towards humans in video games was often prohibited in Germany, so drop it for the whole region, because two releases is hard.

dabeeeenster 3y ago

Arch Elite is the pinnacle for sure.

chrisjj 3y ago
> Arch Elite is the pinnacle for sure. Aw, blush :) - Chris Jordan, publisher of Arch Elite.

helpfulContrib 3y ago

The recent Oric Atmos fan make is pretty nice, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1cJGLGlxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1cJGLGlxo

MarkMoxon 3y ago

The quote is: My greatest published achievements technically would have to be fitting BBC Cassette "Elite" into 32K of RAM including the screen, and later the Nintendo Entertainment System conversion of "Elite" that used a character mapped display and a single NES controller. The NES is my favourite published conversion and was not thought technically feasible until we'd done it. See http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/b5081501.htm http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/b5081501.htm for the full interview I interpret this as meaning his favourite version is the BBC Micro cassette version, while his favourite conversion is the NES one. But I'm a BBC fanboy, so that might just be me being hopeful. :-)

chrisjj 3y ago
> while his favourite conversion is the NES one favourite /published/ conversion :)
bitwize 3y ago
The CHR ROM on NES Elite was actually RAM... allowing for something akin to "bitmap mode" on the TI-99/4A or C64 where they can use the CHR memory as a framebuffer in which to draw those vector graphics.