I also wasted a lot of my youth playing Elite, so much fun. Check out the page--it also has annotated source code for Elite (a few different versions up there).
(who's up next?)
+ Nevryon (rip off of R-Type)
They were pretty much the only games we actually bought, rather than just demos from cover disks, so I played the absolute heck out of them.
Even after many hours of flying time, I could never stick the landings in Chocks Away.