David Braben - Creating ELITE (Extended)
From Bedrooms to Billions - SPECIAL EDITION
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David Braben and Ian Bell created the seminal Space Trading Combat game 'Elite' whilst still at University in the early 1980's. Here in this EXTENDED VERSION David gives his thoughts on how this classic game was devised, created and released.
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