I'm just wonder whats other peoples history with the Elite series of games as in case you are not aware Dangerous is the 4th game.
Personally I started with Frontier Elite 2 on the Amiga which in my opinion is the best of the first 3 games. I've have to be honest and say I've never really played the first Elite but I was at the time really looking forward to Frontier First Encounters which never really seemed to launch. I think I only ever seen 1 real copy of it in an obscure computer shop. I recall reports of it being very buggy but I would like to give it a go sometime. I'd still play Frontier the odd time which is mostly a trading sim in space but considering its a mini galaxy on a 770kb floppy disc it still amazes me. Plus it has landable atmosphere planets with clouds out of the box haha.