Author of Solar Realms Elite / Barren Realms Elite?
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[deleted] · 2015-06-18 04:25

Does anyone know what happened to Mehul Patel? I know he sold the
rights, but what did he wind up doing later in life?

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[deleted] · 2015-06-18 14:18

I would love to know the answer.  SRE was awesome!

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cbCode · 2015-06-18 17:35

Yeah that guy took some time out of my life, I'd like to see what he's
working on now.

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f15sim · 2015-06-18 18:24

I think you might find this a fun read:
http://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-
realms-elite/

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ebookit · 2015-06-19 01:31

There used to be a Wikipedia article on Solar Realms Elite / Barren
Realms Elite but Wikipedia deleted it due to the games being non-
notable and there being no Internet URLs to link to, the only
citations were from Boardwatch Magazine and other BBS publications and
they deemed them non-notable and out of print so they couldn't verify
it.

It might have had the answer in it.

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braxbrax · 2015-06-19 04:22

SRE and BRE are non-notable? That's so sad. In the mid 90's it was
almost impossible to come across a PC based bbs that didn't one, if
not both of those games.

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ebookit · 2015-06-19 16:53

I and a few others tried to get the article not deleted. You got a lot
of young editors at Wikipedia who never heard of it.

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nolageek · 2015-06-24 01:36

Break Into Chat managed to save a lot of these wiki articlrs....

http://breakintochat.com/wiki/Solar_Realms_Elite

Also has done great interviews and blog posts!

http://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-
realms-elite/

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ebookit · 2015-06-24 03:23

I'm glad they saved it. Wikipedia was not reasonable about it. I see
at least two book references and some blogs. It had references but
Wikipedia said they were no good.

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[deleted] · 2015-06-25 15:12

Wikipedia has a hate-on for much of the BBS era, honestly.

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ShooterJennings · 2015-07-01 15:50

What a great interview. Inspiring. I would love to talk to this guy.
Loved the Richard Garriott part.