Loot Crate - August 2014 - Heroes

Final unboxing video for the month and we saved the best till last, Loot Crate's Heroes themed box :)

As Tachiko mentioned, we opened my crate as his was sat at home a very long train ride away, I'll try and persuade him to send me pictures of what he got so we can post them up here :)

I will also try and remember to take photos before I rip things out of the packaging to give a better/ clearer picture of what's in the box...sorry guys!!

Next month's theme has yet to be released.....

Next post will be some amazing boot sale game pickups I promise!!!

Nerd Block : August 2014

Hi guys!

Back again with another unboxing video, this time we're unboxing a NerdBlock classic. Video quality is better as Tachiko was playing camera man! Not sure if NerdBlock has a set 'theme'. It all seems a little random in terms of content. Anyway, ENOY!!

Again really liked this box and have decided to buy it for another month or two to see what it's all about.

My Geek Box ~ August 2014 Quest

Hey guys!

Enjoy my first ever unboxing video for my second 'my geek box'. This months theme? QUEST!

I really liked this month's box but I was surprised not to find anything Legend Of Zelda based in there.... aw well :) 

Next month's theme is Apocalypse!

RIP Robin Williams

Today I learnt that one of my favourite actors has passed away.

The very first film I ever saw in the cinema was Flubber and one of my favourite movies to watch at Christmas is Hook. I will never be able to watch these films or any of his others without feeling some sadness that he has gone.

Below is an advert he did with his daughter Zelda to promote the release of Ocarina of Time on 3DS.

Robin Williams

Gone but never forgotten xx

Cowley Road bargain buy

Tachiko & I went to Cowley road last week to check out a second hand game shop we knew about. We'd been there once before but as they are kind of overpriced and kind of give the impression they don't know what they are talking about we've never bought from them. This time was no exception.

Walking a little further down the road (heading back towards Oxford city centre) we noticed a gadget/phone shop advertising consoles and games on the window.

So we decided to check it out, totally glad we did as they were selling a handful of NES games (unboxed) at £4.99 each, they had a couple of the Mario Bros games which would have been nice to pick up but the one I chose to get (thanks Tachiko for paying! xx) was Metroid.

It's a game I've never had the chance to play on the NES and after looking at the prices of the loose carts on eBay we totally got a bargain! Haven't had the chance to test it yet as the only NES in the house right now is my brother's and it's in a hard to get into cupboard but I'm hoping it get playing it soon!

Recent eBay buys :)

I've been shopping!! No real surprise there but I found a couple of very nice gems that are gonna look great when we get our own place and get our games room up and running :)

The gem I'm talking about is this ex display gameboy game display rack:

It holds 13 boxed games and even better, there are two of them :)

there is a little bit of damage to the wording on one of them as you can probably see in the second picture, I don't know whether to leave it as it is or touch it up with paint... 

I also picked up a larger size in the adventure time t-shirt I got from my geek box last month as well as two other t-shirts that came from previous geek boxes :)

these are all taken from the ebay listings as they are all currently in the wash :)

Also picked up a boxed copy of Crash Dummies for the SNES, I remember playing my brother's copy for the gameboy so it'll be nice to see how it plays on the SNES.

I'm hoping that the sticker on the box can be carefully steamed off....

Oh and I also bought the first 3 seasons of Adventure Time on Blu-Ray as Netflix only has season 1 available to watch :)

(have literally just found out that season 4 is out either now or soon!!)

Um I think that was everything I've bought from eBay lately! 

Kid Icarus Cards 2: the unnecessary sequal

So the second lot of Kid Icarus cards finally showed up late last week...80 packs of cards labelled promo 1 (yes that detail is important and I'll go into it soon!)

this is most of them...

we'd already started opening them before we realised we hadn't taken a photo!

Tachiko and I set about opening them up and organizing the cards into manageable piles to sort and put away. After my 'freak' encounter last time where I got the same card in every pack I decided to do some investigating and discovered that the packs labelled as 'Promo 1' all contain a 'three sacred treasures' card. So you guessed it we now have another 80 'three sacred treasures' cards to get rid of...

After sorting, we set about filing the cards we needed into our binders. Out of the 480 cards we bought I needed 0 of them, no that's not a typo, I genuinely needed none of them, Tachiko thankfully needed some of them so it wasn't a total waste of time but as they were all 'Promo 1' packs there's actually only a limited number of cards that could be found in those packs before you'd need to buy the booster packs originally sold in WHSmiths, Toys 'R' Us etc.

I don't think we'll be buying anymore lots of cards unless they are the store bought booster packs :)