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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A very curious selection, this month.



TShirt : SMASH!

Is it Smash Bros, or is it Smash TV?
Who can say for sure!!
Arcade Score : 0/10 : It's definitely supposed to be the original N64 Smash Bros logo.. ... Right!?


Keyring : Key!

Add an extra key to your keyring, with this keyring key!
Will be going to Cousin Ryan, as with all Zelda related items.
Arcade Score : 2/10 : Link scores low arcade points. I'm still not convinced he should earn that...


Air Freshener : Toad

Nice, sure, but I have no car, so this is worthless to me.
Bah, humbug!
(And I'm NOT going to be one of those people who hangs a crappy little car-freshener in their bedroom!!)
Arcade Score : 2/10 : Toad's popped up on Mario Kart Arcade. .. That's all I can think of!


Figurine : Warcraft


Oh, yippee..
How is Warcraft still relevant? Does anyone even play it anymore?!
Arcade Score : 0/10 : Nope.. No points here.. Move along..



Speaker!? : Megaman


It's molded well, and it looks nice.
Unfortunately it needs both a USB power supply, and a wired 3.5mm connector before it'll work.
..but I can't use that from my iPad, and since my iPad is what I listen to 99% of my music on, it's next to useless to me.
Which is a shame, 'cos it sure looks nice!
Arcade Score : 2/10 : Megaman's popped up, on occasion.


Signed Bollocks : Deus Ex

Don't know the game.
Don't know the character.
Don't know the voice actor.
Don't know why this is in the box.
Also..

Don't know why he's missed half of his last name out.. Perhaps he was tired by the time he did this one..
Arcade Score : 0/10 : 99% sure this isn't an arcade game.


Total Arcade Score : 6/60 - Not the best block. I've had much better.