Ouch! I take partial responsibility for selling it too big, though my conscience does not extend to even partially reimbursing you.
I console myself with the thought that I've wasted far more beer tokens elsewhere and that in the grand scheme of my profligacy it's a drip in my gin glass.
Also, it is quite a fun game.
There are three special, halcyon maps which owe a considerable debt to Roger Dean. I absolutely love the piece of music that accompanies them. The climax of the game is great, too.
Does that mean you get 6 times as much fun from it?
Sadly not. However, I do feel obliged to try harder now.
6 times the pressure to actually play it :) You might not bother if you'd only spent £4.50.
I played the Elite Dangerous training missions last night. It's complicated. Mouse and keyboard controls are interesting. I'm sure a proper controller would make it easier. I managed the first combat training but failed miserably at advanced combat.
Not so far, though he has as cut-and dried a case as he had with Avatar. But what's a poor boy to do when the strength of his artistic vision gently tweaks art history? cf. Bridget Riley.
I chatted to him on the phone a couple of times in the mid-nineties. I borrowed his first album cover painting - for Gun - for my Sound & Fury exhibition on the iconography of heavy metal.
He was amiable & grounded; more to the point, he kindly agreed a - ludicrously underestimated - £45k insurance value for the work because he knew that anything realistic (bearing in mind that he held for some years the record for the most expensive artwork by a living artist, eclipsing de Kooning & Hockney) would be way beyond Bradford AGM's means.