Granny's Garden - A rant.

Today I am going to have a rant.
No, not any comedy news about the game gear's porn playing capabilities or anything like that. Just some good old fashioned "letting-off-steam"

Following on from Batou's great post about the fantastic Granny's Garden, I longed to play the original again, just to see if it still turned my pants the same colour as a brown man's bottom. After endlessly searching for a rom of it without any luck I decided I'd send the original makers of the game, 4mation an email.

"Hi there,

I just wondered if you were selling the original version of Granny's Garden?
I loved playing this game as a kid and it would be great to give it another spin.
I know I definitely have a copy in the attic but it means fixing my broken BBC-B!

Even a rom would be great and I'd happily pay even a fiver just to play this game again.

Kind Regards..."

I offered them a fiver for a THIRTEEN YEAR OLD game that should really be freeware by now. I thought I was being generous but OH NO NO...

"DEAR MR BORDERS
WE CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH AN ORIGINAL COPY OF GRANNY'S GARDEN ON CD-ROM
WHICH DOES NOT REQUIRE AN EMULATOR AT A COST OF £14.98 THAT INCLUDES P&P AND
VAT.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE THIS WE JUST NEED TO TAKE PAYMENT EITHER BY
CREDIT CARD OR YOU CAN SEND A CHEQUE TO US AT THE ADDRESS BELOW.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU SOON
REGARDS BARBARA"

FOURTEEN NINETY-EIGHT!?!?!! Well, first she typed ALL IN CAPITALS which put our relationship in a 'dangerous area' even at that early stage but THEN.. THEN FOURTEEN NINETY-EIGHT for a THIRTEEN YEAR OLD game!?!?!?!?! As Catherine Tate might say "What a fucking liberty."* I could buy the great Psychonauts on Steam for less than that!

Anyway. I got annoyed and sent them a reply bullshitting about being some journalist on a student magazine with no budget, doing a retro gaming section and it'd be good publicity for the newer version if they sent me a copy of the old version.

Unsurprisingly they never got back to me. Can anyone else think of any GREAT REPLIES to send to Barbara that could maybe ease the grasp that her money grabbing hands have around this wonderful game?

*This is a blatant attempt to appeal to the MASSES. Catherine Tate is a bit shit really. I know you think so too because the type of people that read footnotes are the type of people that would hate the Catherine Tate show. Good on you.