The Witch Is Back!

After an awesome weekend round my girlfriends helping her rearrange her room ready for new units to display her consoles and games (more on that in the near future), I felt a bit lost on what to do. But as I entered my room, I found myself a nice pick me up.

"Whats in the box?" none of you are asking, well let me show you anyway.

It is indeed the "First Print Edition" of Bayonetta 2 for Wii U!

For a little context, This is the very limited, Europian only edition that was announced during the Bayonetta 2 Nintendo Direct back in October and was limited to only 15,300 copies (why that number I have no idea). The design of the packaging shaped like the Hierarchy of Laguna book that appears in the game and comes with physical copies of not only Bayonetta 2, but an enhanced port of the original Bayonetta as well as a small art book.

As you can see for the pictures above, the attention to detail is impressive. The surface is embossed to match the print, which has a very nice gold lettering and trim. The Cover is held by a magnet and the whole package feels very sturdy and well put together. My only complaints are that the art 'book' feels more like an after thought and is pretty much a glorafide booklet stuck to the inside. It's a real shame as there is some really great concept art for both games and would have been nice to see some more of that represented here.

The other complaint, be it a small one, is something I find often with special editions is the games come with the standered cover. I love the overall design, however as its a Europian PAL game, it's over crouded with infomation and age ratings from several different languages that just makes it feel untidy. A reversable cover with just the art work would have been nice, espically for those who want to display the games. This is something I would like all games to adapt but thats just me being picky :)

Overall I'm very happy with With the 'First Print Edition' of  Bayonetta 2, now I just need to find a place to put it!

since when is 3 a crowd?

why have one unboxing video when you can have 3? Loot crate showed up last Thursday followed by Nerd Block & My Geek Box on Saturday :) So here are our unboxings for your viewing pleasure!

Loot Crate

Nerd Block

My Geek Box

Breaking News!!

The Atari has been found!!!! We were clearing out the garage yesterday afternoon and when I moved a bunch of boxes I found the box with my brother's original Xbox in it which also had my Atari in it & all 36 games for it!!!

Please excuse the blurry pics, my Iphone is playing up and my camera is dead at the minute, plus I was super excited! I have no idea if this Atari 2600 actually works as I bought it from a boot sale several years ago but have never tested it, can't wait for Tachiko to come over this weekend so we can see if we can get it working!!!!!

Cowley Road pt 2

I couldn't wait till payday!! Mum and I headed back to Cowley road yesterday to pick up the games I wished I'd picked and I picked up some more gems!

Not only did I pick up Darkwing Duck & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (mouthful...) I also picked up McDonaldsland for the NES, Bubble Bobble for the Master System and TETRIS for the N64.

Heading down the road we popped into the charity shop where Tachiko found the memory card last week and found an unboxed  Starwars game for the Gameboy Color and an even better bargain was an unboxed copy of Lylat Wars for the N64 for £2!! Yes it has permanent marker on it but I've already used one coat of nail varnish remover on it in the photo below and it should fade more with another coat.

Tex24 (another exchange shop) also provided me with 4 more NES games for £20, I have no idea if they are any good or not but for £5 each I'm not gonna say no!!

Throwback Thursday

Thursday last week after we got back from Cowley Road Tachiko & I decided to help my parents clear out the loft and I discovered this TV nestled away in the back of the loft (still no sign of my missing Atari though....) 

It's nothing special and is so old it doesn't even have a SCART input but this TV means a lot to me because this is the TV that my brother and I played our first games console on. It used to sit in the corner of the kitchen on top of the tumble dryer with the SNES sat on top of it and we'd play Mario with the cables of the controllers falling in front of the TV....

Now it sits in my bedroom with my NES plugged into it because shockingly despite this TV being over 20 years old it still works really well! 

And I'm really happy because it means that the NES Zapper I bought works on it too!!

The end of Nintendo as I know it

Last week Nintendo and Future Publishing announced that the publication of Nintendo Magazine would be stopping after the new issue hit the shelves.

I picked up my final copy a couple of days ago :(


Goodbye Nintendo Mag, it's been fun and you will be missed!

Cowley Road Jackpot!

So remember I mentioned that Tachiko & I popped into the game store before we went to the gig on Wednesday?

Well when we went inside the first thing I saw was a stack of NES games, some boxed and some unboxed. I didn't want to buy them then as we were going to the gig but I hoped they'd be there if I came back another time. I mentioned it to Mum when we got back from the gig and she said we could go back in the morning!

So that's what we did, we got to Cowley Road at about 10 only to find the store was closed!! We tried asking at a few of the other shops to see if they knew when or if it was open that day but nobody seemed to know. We decided to go for a coffee and come back again after, if it wasn't open by 10.30 we'd call it a day and go back home to finish sorting out the loft.

Luckily when we came back after coffee the shop was open and I was able to pick up a total of 5 games and an original cleaning kit for £60

Tachiko found a complete boxed copy of Odama for £20

There were a handful of other NES games I wish I'd picked up now but hopefully they'll still be there on Payday! 

We also popped into a charity shop on the way back to the car where Tachiko picked up this boxed memory card for the Gamecube for £2 

Given that this was the same charity shop where we picked up the boxed gamecube and dancemat and the Playstation a few weeks back I can't help but wonder what other goodies they have stashed away out the back.....