In this episode we tell the story of the Elite game series and our story of playing the original together back at school, and some bits about the space-sim genre as a whole.

• The Guardian excerpt from Backroom Boys about David Braben and Ian Bell.
• Elite (1984) free PC download (and the Mac version)
• Or play it in an emulator in your browser.
• Elite 1984 gameplay footage (Scott Manley)
• ArcElite (the version we played) gameplay footage
• Frontier Elite 2 footage
• Frontier First Encounters gameplay footage (with updated graphics) (Scott Manley)

Intro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion Outro music: Strauss - Blue Danube

Back again with another indie review, we discuss one of Sefran's most anticipated games of 2018; Into the Breach.

• Into the Breach is by Subset Games.
• Their previous game is FTL: Faster Than Light.
• In the show we compare it to Advance Wars.
• The music was composed by Ben Prunty.

Intro/Outro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion.

In this episode we discuss the emerging trend of adding massively multiplayer features to games that otherwise might be single player. Is this something we want to see more? Or is it just a way of extracting more 'value' from gamers?

• GTA 5 has sold-in over 85 million copies
• Frontier Games Hosts Massive Space Battles on AWS
• AWS re:Invent 2015 presentation from Frontier Games on their architecture
• Digital Trends: "Everyone is going to start playing MMOs again, whether they realize it or not"

Intro & outro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion