Selling my soul to Microsoft
Aug. 28th, 2004 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slycatSo today I bought an XBOX from Gamestation. I went for the £109 package which came complete with Halo and Midtown Madness 3 plus a bonus second Logic 3 gamepad. It was £10 more than most deals but those deals were for crap free games like Driv3r and other tosh. The pack allegedly came with 2 months free trial of XBOX Live, however in reading the leaflet, it states that the offer expired in March this year... d'oh! I also got myself Project Gotham Racing (the first one at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
straywulf's recommendation over the second one) and Panzer Dragoon Orta in the preowned section in Game for £25 so I thought that would keep me going until Burnout 3 comes out. The only problem with the new console is that I'm finding it increasingly more difficult to find space for all this stuff. Next stop, PS2? Might have a space for it!
Also today, I had the pleasure of meeting up with the HantsFurs bunch in Southampton. Although, it was almost not to be! After buying my XBOX and dropping it off with my brother, I calledarakinuk who's number I had, but there was no answer. I called tktiger's phone but there was also no answer. I called the home number given in TK's answerphone message, again no answer. I was doing this all on route to TK's house and so after calling all of the aforementioend numbers repeatedly, I rang the doorbell. Again, there was no answer! By now, I was quite fed up and so decided to go home. I had left a message on TK's to say as such and then headed for the train station. Literally as my train was pulling in, Arakin got through to me and said he hadn't heard his phone cos they were in Sega Park and TK had left his phone at home. So after speaking to Arakin, I made my way to Sega Park, where predictably TK was playing Dancing Stage (DDR). Bungle challenged me to a game of air hockey which I beat him at. We had another go and I won again, much to Bungle's dismay as he was expecting to win :). I also got my exercise on the Dancing Stage game and totally knackering myself out.
The rest of the afternoon involved getting drinks and stuff before going back to TK's flat and generally farting about. Arakin and I got frozen pizzas from the Co-Op, and err that's all really worth noting. Was nice to finally meet Arakin, he did remind me ofclawz_skunk for some reason... I guess he shares his mannerisms or something :) Anyway, after eating pizzas, Arakin gave me a lift back home in his flashy Mini with neat SatNav system.
straywulf's recommendation over the second one) and Panzer Dragoon Orta in the preowned section in Game for £25 so I thought that would keep me going until Burnout 3 comes out. The only problem with the new console is that I'm finding it increasingly more difficult to find space for all this stuff. Next stop, PS2? Might have a space for it!Also today, I had the pleasure of meeting up with the HantsFurs bunch in Southampton. Although, it was almost not to be! After buying my XBOX and dropping it off with my brother, I called
arakinuk who's number I had, but there was no answer. I called tktiger's phone but there was also no answer. I called the home number given in TK's answerphone message, again no answer. I was doing this all on route to TK's house and so after calling all of the aforementioend numbers repeatedly, I rang the doorbell. Again, there was no answer! By now, I was quite fed up and so decided to go home. I had left a message on TK's to say as such and then headed for the train station. Literally as my train was pulling in, Arakin got through to me and said he hadn't heard his phone cos they were in Sega Park and TK had left his phone at home. So after speaking to Arakin, I made my way to Sega Park, where predictably TK was playing Dancing Stage (DDR). Bungle challenged me to a game of air hockey which I beat him at. We had another go and I won again, much to Bungle's dismay as he was expecting to win :). I also got my exercise on the Dancing Stage game and totally knackering myself out.The rest of the afternoon involved getting drinks and stuff before going back to TK's flat and generally farting about. Arakin and I got frozen pizzas from the Co-Op, and err that's all really worth noting. Was nice to finally meet Arakin, he did remind me of
clawz_skunk for some reason... I guess he shares his mannerisms or something :) Anyway, after eating pizzas, Arakin gave me a lift back home in his flashy Mini with neat SatNav system.
