[maglevfield]

Elite is a better example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_Elite_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_First_Encounters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous

[epsylon]

The Elder Scrolls : Daggerfall is another notorious early user of procedural generation to generate an incredibly large open world.