I do. It was a total game changer in every way. Partly, the 3D; mostly, the scale. If it wasn't for the discovery of the Mandelbrot set around the same time i

I do. It was a total game changer in every way. Partly, the 3D; mostly, the scale. If it wasn't for the discovery of the Mandelbrot set around the same time it would have been denounced as totally ridiculous. But, as Fractals were just becoming popular around then, it fitted neatly into the Zeitgeist. As for the 3D the only time you saw it on a home computer before Elite it was 'fake' e.g. in a basic maze game like 3D Monster Maze (think Wolfenstein but with only 4 straight-on views, no guns and a badly drawn pixelsaurus to run away from) or as an isometric game: Ant Attack springs to mind. As I recall Ant Attack[2] was also amazing for it's shear scale, if you look at the full 3D map[3] it's amazing to see how far we've come! In the arcade we had 'real' vector 3D: Battlezone and later on Star Wars[5], the latter being the first I remember being in colour. I am sure these were an influence. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Monster_Maze http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Monster_Maze [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Attack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Attack [3] http://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=AntAttack http://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=AntAttack [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game) [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game)