The journey to Betelgeuse is quite an adventure on its own 😀 

While I have a lot of nostalgia for the first games, I can not recommend them to anyone, due to how old they are. If you are curious about them, look up game play on YouTube.

The second game, Elite 2:Frontier, may still be playable, but the first one is very archaic.

The first game is from 1983 if I recall, and yes I was a very young lad when I played it back then 😅 

 For those that don't know, Beagle Point is the farthest star system from Sol in the game. It can take months in real life to travel there, or rather it did before the fleet carrier update.

https://i.poastcdn.org/0481a674c9b4ba83c013172aa734e6a8526390e46c072c9ed5aa66028ded1067.png 

 Uhh, just go like this? It's much faster.

https://media.gleasonator.com/171deff8604dcdd0816db4ba836042870afb1ea519b8367332bf76e7ac5fb9fe.png 

 The screenshot is from someone who took the really really really long route 🤣 

 I should add that most players go to Sag A to see the supermassive back hole there, before continuing on to Beagle Point. 

 >Elite 2:Frontier

I remember playing that on DOS.

youtube.com/watch?v=V2C6anECKMg 

 Awesome 😍 I played it first on my Amiga 500, a great computer for its time, but really struggled with 3D polygon games. I later played the DOS version, and it ran a million times better. 

 Here is the Amiga intro. I knew tons of people who had a 500. It was much better than the PC for gaming when it came out (87). By 93 it was getting old. 5 years was an eternity when it came to computer development back then. 

It was a bit before my time. I bought the game in the late 90s as part of a collection.

youtube.com/watch?v=GzEj4Gq7fT4 

 i played the shit out of the original on my C64. 

 Same 

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My dads C64 (100% pirated) game collection did not contain Elite unfortunately :sad_bread: 

Did it have copy protection? 

 Yes, something called Lenslok, an absolute dog shit system, lol.

You had a plastic gizmo you had to look through, then line up with lines on your screen, then you got a code you typed in. 

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So I wouldn't have been able to play it anyway 

 I think it would be harder to find a version of the game that still has the copy protection, than finding a version without.

If you found an OG version of the game now with the Lenslok, you would need an old CRT TV to make it work, due to how the lines were displayed. On top of that, the plastic it was made of was so poor I wonder if surviving units can even be used today. 

 plastic DRM lmao 

 lol yes!

This fucking piece of shit

https://i.poastcdn.org/37598c06b0a256ed25f8cb774b2f5198198e13fb1b088971f66e2478a0ac6df9.jpg

https://i.poastcdn.org/154553c5afb6aed70888555bd697847f6a3e94dd4ba391c4434f0e17e75377ab.jpg 

 Ah yes. Nowadays people are smart enough to encrypt the files just to have a txt file in the zip folder with the key. 

 Now that's a big fail, if I ever saw one, lol.

I vaguely remembered that a few times, a game would ship with the wrong Lenslok, so you could not play it. 

 Doom Eternal was accidentally posted on Bethesda's own launcher without the Denuvo DRM in a subfolder so it didn't even need to be cracked day 1. 

 I think I remember reading about that 🤣 

RIP to the anon that lost his job that day lol 

 damn denuvo 1.0 was tough 

 I think I bought my Amiga in 88, it was an amazing gaming computer for its time. Funny you should mention the year 93, that was the year I made the switch to PC-DOS gaming. A 386DX 40mzh, with one megabyte of ram, good times.