You can download the old game for free on the Frontier Store. Sure, it might be missing 35 years of refinements and an entire spectrum of colour, but Elite's 1980s roots still run through its modern counterpart. I hope you've done your homework, pilot, because this ain't the space sim you're used to.Īrguably the first proper open-world game, Elite was setting players loose in a sandbox long before Ubisoft put stabby blokes in white hoodies. To celebrate Elite's 35th birthday, Frontier are giving away David Braben's original 1984 space adventure for free. These kids don't know how tough those early astronauts had it. As simulationist as Elite Dangerous is, it's still all too simple to hop in a ship, point in a direction, and see some awfully pretty space guff.
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