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Wow this would be awesome, I really hope it happens, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I've been waiting so long for the next entry for this game series - the time couldn't be any better to finally start creating and releasing the game. There's still some way left to get this kickstarter completed and funded. Unfortunally when they first released the kickstarter site they only had information on the site and no videos or concept art so it got off to a slow start but people still seem to really want this game made and there should be enough new pledges added as it starts to come to an end but if someone here really want an excellent game this should be the one to support. It's a little unfair that Star Citizen managed to raise more then $7 Million (http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/) while we still don't know if the next Elite game will get made.

By the way here's a quote from Ian Bells site (he also worked on the first Elite game with David Braben - but then quit):
"Elite" was originally written in 1984 by myself (Ian Bell) and David Braben for the BBC Microcomputer. It has since been converted to many platforms. The best conversions were for the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Acorn Archimedes."

You can even download the game from his site including the NES version for emulators.

I loved Frontier Elite II but I don't think the Elite games have any real reputation in the USA or Japan. Also dogfighting in Frontier Elite 2 was based on real rules of gravity which was interesting but made combat less playable. It looks like this will be carried forward to the new game and I think many may be put off by that. I prefer the fake space combat which is more like planes dogfighting.

It's true that the flight mechanic of the original Elite game was much better then in the two later games but David Braben has said in one of his videos on the site I linked to that he preferred the the one in the original Elite game - he's stated that he's not going to have the one from Elite 2 in the new game so there is really nothing to worry about (check out the Dev Diary Video 3 to see what the dogfighting will look like) the dogfighting looks very similar to the X-wing and TIE fighter series.

Edit: Just watched the videos again and realized that he didn't mention this about flight mechanics I described but it was instead in the info - here's the quote when he's talking about Frontier: "I loved the richness of the galaxy, but with the benefit of hindsight I think the way the ships flew detracted from the joyous immediacy of those in “Elite”." Also the dev video nr 3 shows the flight of the ships.

Here's a video with a short look at F-Zero from Nintendo Land, there's also other stuff in it but go to 5:10 in the video to see the F-Zero footage: