Solar Realms Elite

SRE was written by Amit Patel in 1990. It started as a PC clone of Space Empire Elite, a popular BBS door game for the Atari ST written by Jon Radoff. Patel has said he didn’t understand SEE's game design, so instead he used design ideas he had developed from years of writing his own games similar to those he found in the book "Computer Basic Games" by David Ahl.

The last version of SRE (0.994b) was released in 1994. Patel has estimated he sold between 1,000-2,000 SRE registrations to sysops over the years he worked on the game. He said the revenue helped him cover his college tuition, but not room and board.