#FFED3DAJ To my mind, the pinnacle of all the Elite & Frontier games. A labour of love by Andy Jones, who took FFED3D, fixed more bugs, improved the game and gave us pretty much the perfect #FrontierFirstEncounters. Details can be found at tiny.one/FFED3DAJ
RIP AndyJ 🙁

Frontier: First Encounters D3D - poslední mise Andyho Jonese
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Is it a coincidence that my two favourite games of all time - #FrontierFirstEncounters and #Cyberpunk2077 - have strong sandbox elements in them? Carry out the missions, by all means, but also spend hours and hours just roaming around, exploring and enjoying yourself. Perfect!

I've no idea whether such an elaborate rotation system would work in Real Life™, in terms of generating "gravity" aboard the space station, but the concept in #FrontierFirstEncounters is an amazing one. Best not to look out of the window while eating your lunch though! 🤢

For some reason, when #FrontierFirstEncounters was released in the US in 1995, it sported much improved box artwork compared to the UK and European versions. The Frontier wording was dropped; the game simply being known as First Encounters. A curious decision, given FE2's success!

Like Elite, Frontier had a number of different versions. #FrontierElite2 was made for PC, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST, whereas #FrontierFirstEncounters only ever came out on PC. A number of different languages here, on disk and CD. The box art for the US release of FFE was by far the best.