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Arcade Block - January 2015 Blog
4th January 2016
.. although, technically, I think this is meant to be December's, it just got delayed with Xmas and New Year!

Each month I receive the wonderful Arcade Block from NerdBlock.com
When you initially sign up, you give them a T-Shirt size, and every month you get a lovely Arcade related TShirt, along with a box full of odd pieces of tat.
Some of the tat is garbage, some of the tat looks nice on a shelf, and occasionally some of the tat is pure awesomeage!

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Scoring
Each month, I run through the tat, and give each item a score out of 10.
The score does NOT suggest whether the item is good or bad. Instead, I've opted to make the scores specific to the way in which the Arcade Block is marketed.
The "Arcade Block" is branded as a box full of "Arcade" related items, so each and every item is given a score based on how Arcadey it is.
If an game is renowned for being a Arcade Coin-Op classic, it gets a 10/10
If the game has only ever briefly been seen in Arcades, it scores about 7/10
If it's rarely ever been seen in an Arcade, it gets a lower 3/10
And if the game is nothing more than a generic home-console FPS thing, it'll get 0/10.. Because, really, those are NOT Arcade games!

Oddly, most Nintendo games also score a low low 0/10, or sometimes 1, if it's something like Donkey Kong.

It's an odd way to score it, but if you're sticking the name "Arcade Block" on the thing, then that's the way I'm going to score it!

More
If you'd like to read about previous NerdBlock and ArcadeBlock boxes that I've received, they're all in this Socoder Thread



TShirt : Just Cause 3

There are 3, now!?
A boring tshirt with a shooty motif. I probably won't be wearing this.
Arcade Score : 0/10 : A home FPS-esque thing, not in the arcades.

Notepad : Fictional Arcade Cabinet.

A simple enough notepad. The "TV" in the middle is cut out, so once you've ripped out page 1, you can doodle silly arcade screens inside the notepad and they'll show up on the outer screen.
Arcade Score : 10/10 : Arcade! Woohoo!!

Coin Box : Space Invaders

A coin box shaped like an Arcade Cabinet, with a proper Arcade Game on the outside.
Arcade!!!
Arcade Score : 10/10 : Arcade!!!!

Fabric Badge/Patch : Street Fighter V

A V with Street Fighter scrawled over it.
Arcade Score : 10/10 : Blimey, it's an Arcade bonanza!!!

Voucher : G2A

Dunno what that is, not even going to bother to learn.
$3 when you spend $10
I posted the voucher code to Twitter, so it's probably already been used.
Arcade Score : 0/10 : Meh..

Stupid Shitty Funko-Pop garbage : The Last of Us


.. but it definitely won't be the last of them.
Arcade Score : -2/10 : -1 for each of the bloody things..

Cards : Nintendo


Arcade Score : 10/10 : Technically not Arcade, but this is most definitely one of the nicest things they've done, so far, and it deserves a nice score.

Total Arcade Score : 38/70 : A good block!
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