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[cantfindit]

Hi all, basically one day in the year 1997 i think (i was around 13/14yo) in the UK, my dad comes home from his start-up biz. He says the newly hired french programmer at the office has installed a game on his sony vaio laptop for us to play. so we check it out. this game was soooo amazing. obviously im trying to identify this game so i can play it again. below are all the clues to help track it down.

1. upon loading the game had the words FRONTIER and maybe ELITE.

2. most of the screen during game play was black and you were navigating a little spaceship.

3. the view was in 2D (not first person shooter). i.e you would be floating around in space as a light greyish coloured rectangular shaped ship maybe 1.5cm in length and 7mm in width approx.

4. the key words i remember were DOCKING and LOOTING.

5. you would float in quite a physically realistic motion towards a large block
of grey something maybe a space centre and you would attach yourself to it maybe and DOCK and maybe LOOT i cant remember exactly.

6. you would encounter some hostile ships similar or bigger maybe and have to fight with them i think but cant remember the weapons, maybe firing red coloured lasers or missiles not sure.

7. there were portals i think which you would find randomly after some time playing and i think u would rush to catch it before it dissapears. you would then be transported to another location, with new places to dock and things to loot. i think i remember some things being coloured a bright ruby red whether it was around the portals or maybe the weapons laser beams etc.

now i know you're all thinking, well if the words FRONTIER and/or ELITE FRONTIER showed up as the game was loading then it must be those games.

believe me ive searched google endlessly looking for screenshots of anything with those words in them and they dont look anything like the game im trying to find.

what is confusing is that they have the same words as their titles and also even have similar gameplay and plot descriptions i.e floating around in space trading and docking and looting etc! so its so confusing and frustrating when u look at every game in every series and nothing looks anything like it.

so either i was playing this game in one of many possible views i.e i played it in the long distance view so i can see the big picture and the space ship exterior from far away, and didnt ever "zoom in" to go into first person shooter like the views im seeing in screenshots of the frontier series.

so anyway the reason why i cant just turn on that old laptop is because within a year that sony vaio laptop back in late 90's just suddenly died. we sent it to sony and they wanted over a thousand to repair it so we said forget it and thus never saw that game again. its in that sony vaio hard drive but i cant get to it! i try and motivate myself to find it online but then give up and forget about it for a couple of years when i dont find anything and then i get all nostalgic and want to find it again when i see anything to do with space in the news or new space games which dont compare to it in my opinion.

hope u can help