Wikipedia deleted Space Empire Elite.

Well, they killed the article, anyway.

The game itself lives on, believe it or not. There are a number of Atari ST BBSes where you can still play it, including Dark Force.

As mentioned in my previous post, some Wikipedia editors are on a mission to delete articles related to BBS door games. Their battle cry is “Notability!”

But have no fear. The Space Empire Elite article has new life on my new wiki: Break Into Chat.

Already new life is being breathed into this article. It has new screenshots — including one of the game’s title screen in VT52 mode. I’ll explain how I took that screenshot in my next post.

P.S. Some heavyweight technology historians have weighed in:

• Jason Scott: The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History (Dec. 7, 2012)
• Benj Edwards: Wikipedia is Deleting BBS Game History (Dec. 8, 2012)

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