Elite — 20 September 1984 (BBC Micro launch day)
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Pilot episode. On this day in 1984 Acornsoft put Elite on the BBC Micro. Lee and Mark look back at the UK charts, the high-street computer counters, and how Elite played across the Beeb, Electron, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum — with SID music snippets and scores out of ten.
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