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

April 2016's Block..



TShirt - Deadpool

Haven't seen the movie, haven't read the comics, have no idea what the carrots are there for. Very odd.. Very baffling.
Not an Arcade game.. But done in the style of one, so it wins points for that!
Arcade Score - 5/10 - Not a bad score!!

Memo Holder - Grappling Hook

A grappling hook from Just Cause 3. A game series I've never played, but still quite a nice little ornament.
Would be nice for holding Platdude Pixelart!!
Arcade Score - 0/10 - Not an Arcade game.

Figurine - Nemesis

A character from Resident Evil.
FACT : I haven't ever played a Resident Evil game. I've tried the demos, but couldn't get into the terrible "turn-walk" controls, and gave up shortly after that!
Arcade Score - 0/10 - Pretty sure Resi isn't an Arcade game..

Plushie - Megaman!

Awww, looks so cute!
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... Oh!!
Arcade Score - 3/10 - Pretty sure he's been in the arcades. Let me know if I'm wrong.

Russian Dolls - Pokemonsies

Feel free to let me know which pokemans these are. I haven't a clue!
Arcade Score - 0/10 - No points for you!!

Overall Arcade Score : 8/50 - A low score. .. And only 5 items this month?! Aww