10 Prolific Video Games Kids Today Will Never Play

8. Elite

When Elite emerged in 1984 it quickly gained a reputation as a programming marvel of the age. It could easily be argued that it was the first ever open-world title and the sheer scope of the game is still capable of baffling those who remember the consoles of the period. Elite was, at its core, a space exploration game. Managing to jam eight galaxies - each with 256 planets - into 22Kb of memory, it offered gamers something they had never really experienced before; freedom. Though rightly revered as one of the greatest games of all time, its wireframe graphics and sprawling levels of complexity would make it inaccessible to the current generation of gamers. Though the game is fairly easy to find online it simply isn€™t a title that newcomers get a handle on, nor would its complexity be appreciated by anyone raised on sprawling open-world titles that have become dedicated to streamlining the experience. A slight caveat to this entry is the existence of Elite: Dangerous, which has brought the concepts of the game into the modern age thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign. Though it has attained positive reviews it remains to be seen if the kids of today will latch onto it in the same way as those in the 1980s did the original.