The B&B Book Review - The Bear and Badger

davyK

Heh...it's a long tale.

I had a hankering to play Tempest 3000.

Saw a Nuon controller in Ca$h Converters for £20 - so picked it up.
Then - a year or so later - saw an actual Nuon player - picked that up. About £30.
Then - discovered the fucking PAL version has no controller ports!!!! (the terminals are on the boards but the wankers at Samsung didn't connect them up to ports. It's a non-standard connector (of course) which is probably why the controllers are valuable (was ignorant of their value).
So fucked about for years, using the Nuon as a DVD player in gaming den.
Then Tempest 3000 cost went through the roof (hadn't pulled the trigger on it several times when it was reasonable)
Then the Nuon caved in.
Then I ebayed the controller - prices £200-300!
Sold it to a guy in Israel (I had a reserve of £200 - he bought it at the last minute).
Bought Dune and LotR with the money.

hylian_elf

....AHHHH!!!! I mistakenly thought you were referring to the Ltd Ed of LotR!

davyK

Oh shit no.....!!!!!

hylian_elf

Strange & Norrell has now had the Folio treatment. I noped out of the signed version yesterday cos fuck paying £375 when it’s not actually a Limited Edition. It sold out in like 5 minutes though.

Will order it unsigned normal for £150 though.

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