It occurred to me today that Elite has been around for thirty years now. I played it on a Commodore 64 with an Atari 2600 joystick, on a 13-inch BW TV to start 320x200 resolution, loading it off of a 5.25" floppy drive. Our avatars on this board have a higher pixel count. I just joined up the ED Beta and oh my how far things have come. But it made me immensely happy that one of my all-time favorite games had come back, and come back in style.
It got me wondering... Who else out there is a member of the "Eighty-Four" Club? What was your gaming rig? How many old farts are out there, jumping on the comm channels saying "When I started out, our joysticks were 8-direction digital with ONE button, and we LIKED it!!!"
tl;dr Get off my lawn.