Had a few games on my Christmas list when, DISASTER! the tape drive packed up. Boots had just stopped selling C64s and couldn't replace it. I was already eyeing up the recently released Atari ST (whoops), so dad managed to convince Boots to refund the price of the C64,

and the retail price of ALL the games we'd bought, including the computer club games. Impressive? Well the most impressive bit was he actually got out of the computer club contract too. God knows how.