Oscar-Contending Doc ‘WTO/99,’ About Massive Street Protests In Seattle Against World Trade Organization, Announces Self-Distribution Plan
#Documentary #News #AlexMegaro #Awardsdoc #IanBell #WTO99

https://deadline.com/2025/10/wto-99-documentary-self-distribution-plan-1236575330/

Oscar-Contending Doc ‘WTO/99,’ About Massive Street Protests In Seattle Against World Trade Organization, Announces Self-Distribution Plan

The Oscar-contending doc 'WTO/99,' about protests that disrupted the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle, will self-distribute in theaters.

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I bought the box a few years ago ❤️

I wonder if the copy I had as a kid didn't have the novel.

It's amazing to think that such a game could fit on a single-sided floppy disk 😮 (720 KB!)

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#Elite #DavidBraben #IanBell #Firebird #AtariST #RetroGaming #BigBoxGames #OpenWorld

Happy 40th Anniversary Elite!🚀
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#Elite was the first of a long and proud line of #SpaceSimulators. #IanBell and #DavidBraben’s creation was the main source of inspiration for games such as #Echelon, #SpaceRogue, #MicrosoftSpaceSimulator and #Freelancer.

It established 3 big staples of modern #GameDevelopment:The #OpenWorld format, #WireFrame #3DGraphics, and procedurally generated levels. #EliteDangerous

Remembering ‘Elite’, the Most Important Game of the Early 80s
https://www.vice.com/en/article/remembering-elite-the-most-important-game-of-the-early-80s/

Remembering ‘Elite’, the Most Important Game of the Early 80s

Elite was the first of a long and proud line of space simulators.

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Elite celebrates its 40th anniversary today! 🎂 🚀 ✨

One of my all-time favorite games. So many hours spent on the Atari ST version 🥰 (thanks Dad for the gift)

➡️ Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9MdoDdxoQ

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#Elite #DavidBraben #IanBell #AcornSoft #Firebird #BBCMicro #AtariST #RetroGaming

Elite - Intro Music / Gameplay (Atari ST)

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Written by #IanBell and #DavidBraben while they were studying at the #UK's #UniversityOfCambridge, #Elite was launched with huge razzmatazz by #Acornsoft, was shipped with a superb user manual and even a novella to explain the universe. The original Elite ended up selling an estimated one million units. (That's chicken feed today, but in 1980s computing that was a huge number.) #RetroGaming #EliteDangerous #SpaceSims

40 years since the launch of the legendary game Elite
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what's under the cobra's hood

The Register