November 1985 - Crash Magazine had a review of Elite, ported to the ZX Spectrum
95p - I had just turned 13, and that was 1/3 of my weeks paper round wages. Just for the magazine.
Had to use my birthday money to buy the game. Took me ages to get to Elite. Entered the first 'Race to Elite' competition, and got a nice letter back to say the competition had closed, but I got the badge anyway.
http://www.crashonline.org.uk/22/elite.htm
Now I have a Vive, Hotas, and an XMG laptop to play it on, and threw money at the Kickstarter the moment I saw it.
I still feel 13 when playing, when I have the time after all that 'grown up' stuff...
Lenslok forever!