{"id":20090,"date":"2020-05-04T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20090"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:21:29","slug":"midway-classic-arcade-loot-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/midway-classic-arcade-loot-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Midway Classic Arcade Loot Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>While not quite as popular as they used to be, Loot Boxes are a recent craze as of late.\u00a0 They\u2019re boxes full of themed items that you either order through the mail, or get in a store.\u00a0 Most of the time you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re getting, but sometimes you do.\u00a0 The themes in these boxes range anywhere from video games, movies, or just dog toys and treats.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been tempted to get loot boxes from time to time, but I usually don\u2019t because I like to know what I\u2019m paying for, and many are just too expensive.\u00a0 That loot box at PAX South that had Mega Man on the sides was mighty tempting, but not at 50 bucks!\u00a0 However, there have been a few times in the past year or so where I bought a loot box sold in the games section at Wal-Mart or Target when they were on sale.\u00a0 Why did it take me so long to write about them?\u00a0 Well I thought I\u2019d save them for a rainy day, and now seems about as rainy as ever.\u00a0 So it\u2019s Loot Box Week here at GamerDad, and the first one we\u2019re going to look at is a Midway Classic Arcade Loot Box!<\/p>\n

I think I saw this one about a year ago on sale after Christmas for about 10 or 15 bucks.\u00a0 Since it was so long ago I doubt you can still find it.\u00a0 Anyway, I love classic arcade games so it seemed like a good deal.\u00a0 Here is a picture of the front of the box.\u00a0 They made it to (sort of) look like a classic arcade cabinet.<\/p>\n

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And here are (almost) all the things you get in the box.\u00a0 There\u2019s a Paperboy magnet, bumper stickers made to look like classic arcade marquees for Gauntlet and Joust (Joust one not shown, as it was on the back of the Gauntlet one), and a mini Defender tin.\u00a0 There\u2019s also a Joust bobblehead figure and a Rampage journal.\u00a0 Of all the things they could\u2019ve made out of Rampage, they chose a journal?<\/p>\n

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I wanted to draw special attention to the Joust mini bobblehead figure.\u00a0 Joust was always one of my favorite two player arcade games, and I had the home version on my Atari 5200.\u00a0 I like this item because you just don\u2019t SEE Joust merchandise at all!<\/p>\n

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So there was one thing in the box that is not in the picture, and that was a Spy Hunter lapel pin.\u00a0 But I already gave it to my brother Jeff before I took these pictures, because when he was little he LOVED to play Spy Hunter on one of my classic arcade collection discs.\u00a0 Seriously, he\u2019d sit there and play it for hours, which is not something a five year old usually does.\u00a0 He also liked the 3-D remakes that came out a while later.\u00a0 But you\u2019re not missing much by not seeing it.\u00a0 The pin itself just looks like a generic sports car, and you probably wouldn\u2019t even know it was from Spy Hunter unless you saw the paper backing behind it in the packaging.\u00a0 Anyway, so that\u2019s the first loot box.\u00a0 What will it be next time?\u00a0 Well just like loot boxes, you\u2019ll just have to wait to find out!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While not quite as popular as they used to be, Loot Boxes are a recent craze as of late.\u00a0 They\u2019re boxes full of themed items that you either order through the mail, or get in a store.\u00a0 Most of the time you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re getting, but sometimes you do.\u00a0 The themes in these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20092,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20090\/revisions\/20092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}