''Elite Plus'' is a 1991 video game published by

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Gameplay

''Elite Plus'' is a game in which the player starts out with the Cobra Mark III craft, and must advance to the reach the Elite craft and status level.

Publication history

''Elite Plus'' was released for DOS in 1991. Whereas the original ''Elite'' (1987) for the PC used CGA graphics, ''Elite Plus'' was upgraded to take advantage of

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and MCGA. It was coded entirely in

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, who later wrote ''

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Reception

Stanley Trevena reviewed the game for ''

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'', and stated that "Players of the original game may find it enjoyable to take a trip down memory lane with this new version of their old favorite, but most gamers probably won't have the time or space for this program in their software collection. Like the heated debate that surrounds the colorization of classic films, some classics are best left in their original form and not artificially modernized." ''

'' gave ''Elite Plus'' two-plus stars, describing it as "More detailed and complex, it is also more tedious than the original". A 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave ''Elite Plus'' two-plus stars. In 1991, '' PC Format'' placed ''Elite Plus'' on its list of the 50 best computer games of all time. The editors called it "a classic game that mixes solid 3D space combat with trading to create a universe in which you can spend many a happy half-hour bushwhacking the dastardly Thargoids."

Reviews

*'' PC Format'' - Dec, 1995 *''

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'' - Jun, 1991

References

{{reflist 1991 video games DOS games NEC PC-9801 games Space trading and combat simulators Video game remakes Video games developed in the United Kingdom