Operation Flashpoint

At this moment ELITE is the most voted for title.

However, it is still not THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIME!

Elite

I clocked up more hours on that than any other game. Used to play it at college with a couple of mates, pretty much all night at the weekends. After about 3 years my ship was totally tricked out. I'm not sure if I actually ever made Elite, but if I did it was about a decade after the competition ended! I had the tape version for the Electron, which was slightly annoying when I upgraded to a Floppy BBC because it wasn't compatible.

The only games that I've put that much time into since are Hexen, Descent and Quake. Elite was actually more fun though. I'd play it again, but I can't afford the time!

The Acorn Archimedes version of Elite (written by Warren Burch and Clive Gringras) widely regarded as the best conversion of the original game, added intelligent opponents who engage in their own private battles and police who take an active interest in protecting the law. The game world no longer seems to be centred around the player; freighter fleets with escorts go about their own business, pirate formations patrol lawless systems looking for cargo to loot and mining ships can often be found breaking up asteroids for their mineral content. Unlike the mythical Generation Ships of the original, rare occurrences of other non-pirate entities mentioned in the manual really can be found in the Archimedes version: geometric formations of space beacons; hermits living among the asteroids; abandoned ships towed by police (although Dredgers and Generation Ships are confirmed not to exist in Archimedes Elite).[5] The Archimedes version of Elite was originally written to be a space trading game called Trojan - however the obvious similarities eventually meant that to avoid a potential lawsuit Trojan became an official Elite.