41 Jet Force Gemini -v - Elite (ZX Spectrum) 88
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Elite is one of the most important video game ever created.
Elite pioneered game play models that would eventually lead to the development of the FPS, The flight sim, the MMORPG and the strategy genre. Elite was so far ahead of its time that is ceases to be funny.
This was an era when Tetris and Pacman were about as advanced as video games could get. Then came Elite, an open ended space simulator featuring over two thousand different planets to explore across multiple gameplay modes. All this run on a system thirty-thousand times less powerful than the current generation models.
Elite is one of the most critically acclaimed video games of all time. On its release it received critical fanfare like no game before it. Even to this day it regularly shows up on the more informed lists of the greatest games of all time. IGN named it the 12th most influential game of all time. The Times named it 3rd in the same category. It won game of the year from every single source during it's release. Alone of the Sinclare generation games Elite was actually ported to the console market almost a decade after its release. It is impossible to exaggerate the impact of Elite.
Seriously, read the Wikipedia article.
Jet Force Gemini simply isn't in the same league.
Elite pioneered game play models that would eventually lead to the development of the FPS, The flight sim, the MMORPG and the strategy genre. Elite was so far ahead of its time that is ceases to be funny.
This was an era when Tetris and Pacman were about as advanced as video games could get. Then came Elite, an open ended space simulator featuring over two thousand different planets to explore across multiple gameplay modes. All this run on a system thirty-thousand times less powerful than the current generation models.
Elite is one of the most critically acclaimed video games of all time. On its release it received critical fanfare like no game before it. Even to this day it regularly shows up on the more informed lists of the greatest games of all time. IGN named it the 12th most influential game of all time. The Times named it 3rd in the same category. It won game of the year from every single source during it's release. Alone of the Sinclare generation games Elite was actually ported to the console market almost a decade after its release. It is impossible to exaggerate the impact of Elite.
Seriously, read the Wikipedia article.
Jet Force Gemini simply isn't in the same league.
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