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Elfenland

I think we can forgive Alan Moon a degree of justified smugness. Back in the Dark Ages he stood there selling Elfenroads and said, quite clearly, if you don't buy it now, it will be gone for good. We know how the story went from there. Rave reviews and reaction, cries of "Messiah!" and Elfenroads accorded Top Ten status by most sentient beings. But there were only 1200 games for the entire gaming universe, and with a cult following (hundreds of rabid Americans looking for a game they had only read about), the consequent scarcity and secondhand prices made your toes curl. All this was aggravated by self-satisfied prigs like me holding onto their spare copies! In the last couple of years, as the fever pitch grew, vile accusations of conspiracy arose: Moon had a secret stash and was leaking copies onto the market to fund his candy habit; more than 1200 were printed and there was a warehouse 'somewhere' with the hidden thousands or, most barmy of all, that the game never existed and that it was all a cruel government hoax. No wonder The X Files is popular - surprising that poor old Moonie wasn't implicated in the Irangate, Whitewater and Princess Di affairs as well or to find that Elfenroads was actually unearthed at Roswell.

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