Longest-running space simulation series
According to Official Guinness Records,
Debuting on 20 September 1984 with the open-world space trading simulation Elite (David Braben, Ian Bell), the iconic Elite videogame series has spawned three sequels across a period of approximately 30 years 87 days. Its sequels are Frontier: Elite II (1993), Frontier: First Encounters (1995) and the crowd-funded Elite: Dangerous, which was released for PC on 16 December 2014. On 15 June 2015, the latter was also released as a debut title for the Xbox One's Xbox Game Preview, a new program that allows gamers to buy and play Xbox One games still in active development.
As of 16 June 2015, Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier Developments was also releasing updates for the game. The most recent was the Powerplay update on 5 June 2015.
For a complete list of 2014 records, please visit 2014 Guinness Records in United Kingdom.
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