An ambitious plan to update classic space trading game Elite has hit its funding target.
The game first appeared on the BBC Micro in 1984 but one of the game's original creators wanted to make a modern PC version.
David Braben sought £1.25m via crowd-sourcing site Kickstarter to fund the 21st century update.
A last minute surge of pledges helped it reach its goal less than 48 hours before Friday's funding deadline.
Funding squeeze
Elite: Dangerous debuted on Kickstarter on 5 November and set itself 60 days to raise £1.25m. In November, Mr Braben said Elite was a game he had wanted to come back to for a "long, long time".
Although some early work on the multiplayer title had been done at Mr Braben's game studio Frontier Developments, but needed the cash to turn the code into a finished playable product. If the game did not hit its funding target then development work would stop.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20897768I for one cannot wait, I still play Elite, and Elite Frontiers to this day.
