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title = """
  Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"
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author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-03-15T16:25:00+01:00
categories = ["blog"]
draft = false
weight = 2001
abstract = "Link blog entry"
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This is the best YT movie I've seen in months.
It's **about** elite, but half of the movie is about how BBC Micro works.

{{< yt "lC4YLMLar5I" >}}
Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"
{{< /yt >}}

If you have any interest in classic gaming and/or computing, it's highly recommended.

> Elite may be the most complex 8-bit game ever produced.
> And it was arguably the most groundbreaking game ever released for its time.
> Back in the early 1980s when arcade-shooters reigned supreme, two undergraduates at Cambridge redefined what computer games even were.
>
> In this video we'll look at some of the technical aspects of how David Braben and Ian Bell were able to construct an entire universe, economy, 3D engine and backstory in 22KB on a 2MHZ processor.
> This story is well known in the UK, but computer games history is largely told through the lens of the US and Japan....so overseas viewers may not be familiar with the impact Elite had on gaming, and the wider world.