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So I Got A Package From The Postman This Morning.
Gibbo | 1:10 PM on 06.30.2009 21 comments



So there I was on Tuesday morning having my beauty sleep as beautiful people do, when I was rudely awakened by the postman at 9am. What could it be I wonder. So I got up and went down the stairs and...


...OH MY GOD IT'S A PACKAGE FROM ANTHONY BURCH. A reconstruction has been used as the original packaging was binned but I tell you the truth when I was shocked to see such appalling handwriting on the package. I almost thought it was from Gandysampras at first. So anyway, I opened the package to find...

...VIDEO GAMES! Only about a week after winning the contest, my prizes were here. That certainly made up for the handwriting. I almost noticed that it cost $12.50 to send the package. Even in these hard economic times, Anthony Burch still does his best to bring joy to the people. What was interesting is that the Warioland box had French parts on it. Canadian version maybe? Of course the main question is, do they actually work since they're NTSC titles?

I'm happy to report that they do! Luckily, the NTSC version of Quantum Of Solace is region free, so my 360 accepted it no problem. As for the Wii games, with a little NOT GeckoOS, both of them also worked fine.

So there we have it, 3 new games to play when I had none left that I hadn't already completed. Clearly Anthony Burch is a master of timing. I bet he got those skills from Braid. Anyway as for impressions, I've played Quantum Of Solace for a few hours now and it's actually pretty fun no thanks to the CoD4 engine. However it's criminally short. I only tried the tutorial level of Wario Land: Shake It but it seemed like a pretty decent platformer. As for Nights: Journey Of Dreams, I only put the disc in to see it worked as I'll play that and Wario Land once I've completed Quantum Of Solace. So thanks go to Anthony Burch for the games and Papa Burch for picking my shoop as the winning entry.



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Takeshi's Destructoid Blog
"...having my beauty sleep as beautiful people do..."

You'd better go back to bed.

:D

Congrats on winning that contest.
Caffeine Knight's Destructoid Blog
Appalling handwriting, heh heh.
Professor Pew's Destructoid Blog
lol @ Takeshi

Gratz on the games though! You better have finished 007 by this evening mister :)
smurfee mcgee's Destructoid Blog
That's cool. I thought this was going to be some kind of porno story.
Elsa's Destructoid Blog
LOL @Takeshi!!

Congrats Gibbo... nice haul! :)
Zippyduda's Destructoid Blog
:) This plus Takeshi's comment made laugh :) Good job.
RonBurgandy2010's Destructoid Blog
I wants games :(
wilbo's Destructoid Blog
back to bed so we can have the sex
Wintersocks's Destructoid Blog
@Anthony

yaaaaaaaay.
Half left's Destructoid Blog
you need a new camera.
BS3 Owner's Destructoid Blog
@ takeshi

Achachacha!

@ half left

Anthony forgot to send that in the package.
Wah!wah!wah!
Gibbo's Destructoid Blog
You're just as much of a cheapskate as me Halfleft. You can't talk.
Monodi's Destructoid Blog
Do want WarioLandShakeIt
Mr Wrighty 987's Destructoid Blog
rudely awakened? Ah cracking one off
Holyetheline's Destructoid Blog
Man... the prizes I've won from Dtoid suck compared to this haul
Molotov Cupcake's Destructoid Blog
Nice, except they are all mediocre games. XD Still though, they're free! Can't complain about that!
Zodiac Eclipse's Destructoid Blog
This is the closest you'll come to meeting a pseudo game blog celebrity. Enjoy your 15 mins.
Shawnzzy's Destructoid Blog
Congrats on the loot.

BTW, they are slowly making all NTSC games have English French and Spanish on them, so you can rest assured it will work on an American bought Wii.
Have fun with dem gamez!
CypherVR's Destructoid Blog
Twat, lol - took my choices

Imma go see if warioland is on the cheap @ amazon/beatmyprice/etc.

Have fun Gibbo ^_^
DaedHead8's Destructoid Blog
You got your shit in a week!? When I won Battlefield Bad Company last year it took Hamza almost a month to send me my booty! I thought he forgot about me until it showed up. lol


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