It was a game that had a generation of computer gamers hooked.

Chasing down enemy spacecraft in an asteroid field, in the rings of a distant planet, all done through wireframe animations.

But now Elite has had a 21st Century remake, thirty years after it revolutionised the world of home computer gaming.

I wrote the original game with Ian Bell back all the way back in 1982, releasing it in 1984 and so in those thirty two years such a lot has changed since and now we're releasing the fourth game in the series which is Elite Dangerous which we're very very excited about. David Braben, game creator

David is now CEO of Frontier Developments, the software company responsible for bringing Elite back to life, with the backing of just a few of its fans worldwide.

A screenshot from the new game

Already we've had over a hundred thousand people backing the game, initially through a website called Kickstarter and now through our own site and they've raised over £7.5m to help us develop the game which is absolutely brilliant. David Braben

With the gaming industry now bigger than the movie industry they share both the technology and skills required to virtual reality and the proof that it really does work to go back to the future.