[XBOX] Burnout 3: Takedown (Promotional Copy) has Arrived!!

Welcome back gamers and collectors!

To yet another addition to my XBOX collection, and here I have Burnout 3: Takedown (Promotional Copy). This is my first yellow banner promotional title. There's unknown amount of promo copies around. Majority of them are early releases for magazine reviews. Sometimes they don't get pressed onto retail discs and usually on standard DVD-R with a label or handwritten labels. The pressed versions is retail code, just they are released before the street date. So there's no level skips, or debug menus etc.

I managed to get one of these brand-new, with XBOX seal which I carefully removed. Promotional copies, don't come with a manual as far as I'm aware. The cover has a few slight differences, apart from the eyesore yellow banner the back of the case has no barcode due to it not being available to the general public.

The disc itself is rather minimalistic, in this case there's no colour printing - even for the XBOX logo. Game title, company logos and 'PROMOTIONAL DISC NOT FOR RESALE' are clearly printed and visible. Publishing company in this case 'Electronic Arts Inc.' is printed below the game title as well.

That's about all for me, more games coming during the week. See you there!  

[XBOX-PROMO] Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2003 Calendar has Arrived!!

Hi gamers and collectors!

Welcome back to yet another addition to my XBOX collection, and this time I have a promo item. A Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2003 Calendar. Just like I mentioned on my Instagram, how much I wanted this poster in 2003. I was 11 years old at the time and I just knew my Mother wouldn't let me have it lol. This Calendar is officially licensed by Tecmo and was printed and distributed by Prima, not sure how many of these sold to be honest.

As I can't really describe the item any long I'll leave it at that.

More games to come during the week, see you there!

New release posters acquired!

Hi gamers!

Today I took a trip into town with a friend I haven't seen in while. She took me to a few game stores, and one of them had new releases and posters which were fairly priced. Anyway, while looking around I was trying to find 3DS titles, unfortunately they didn't seem to stock any Nintendo titles other than Zelda (that I could find). Which then made me look around for the second time...

As I turned around I spotted a table full of posters as I looked through them I found a Mario Kart 7 and 5 Zelda Skyward Sword posters. I just had to get them, "stores" on eBay are charging $10 for each poster and of course the $4-5 postage.. They sold the posters there for $4 each which is really good considering that many stores throw their posters away or never give them away (which is really weird)...

I'll surely take a trip back with a postal tube, as carrying those posters on the tram/trolley was a real hassle.