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

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Oh, blimey!



TShirt : Five Nights at Freddy's

I didn't know what this was, so had to check the "Things in your box" description card.
Five Nights at Freddy's..
Arcade Score : 0/10 - *shrugs*

Stickers : Sonic 25th Anniversary

Sweeeet!
No idea what I'll do with these, but they're really nicely printed, and are lovely and Sonic'y!
Arcade Score : 1/10 - Sonic had an arcade game. It was weird!

Ice Cube Tray : Mario

Now you can have a mushroom in your drink!
Arcade Score : 3/10 - Kinda scores, a bit.

Notebook : Zelda

I *think* it's a notebook, anyway.
This will, as with all Zelda gifts, be going to my cousin.
Arcade Score : 1/10 - Zelda's no Arcade game.

Sushi Set : Street Fighter

I haven't got a fucking clue what I'm going to be doing with this, but...
.. Awesome!
Arcade Score : 10/10 - It doesn't get much more Arcade than Street Fighter.. ... Unless.

Picture : Donkey Kong

A picture. I can print my own pictures. I have a printer.
I'd much prefer a nice big poster, than a regular A4 sized picture.
Arcade Score : 10/10 - Arcade!!!!

Arcade Total : 25/60 : A New Highscore, perhaps!?