Dark Side of the Carton

Endless Ocean and the new Advance Wars: Days of Ruin are both dropping on Monday for the Wii and DS respectively, but I got my copy of both games today. As I try to do, I am posting pictures of the “swag” that accompanied them even though it is less swag and more nifty promotional packaging I still appreciate the effort that Nintendo/Golin Harris goes through to pretty these things up for us.

Ooh. A message in a bottle. Too bad it is just the stock info sheet that comes with all the games.

Another view:

Days of Ruin came a few promo stat cards on a few of the in-game vehicles and an invitation to jump on the Wi-Fi connection tomorrow for some pre-release multi-player action. Maybe I can actually make it online then.

Super Mario Galaxy just showed up at the house and with it came a pretty nifty Commemorative Coin. Apparently these coins were given out for pre-ordering the game, although I am not sure which store was actually giving them out. Regardless, here are a few pictures of the swag.

Nintendo sent over the new Zelda game, Phantom Hourglass, and it had a nifty bit of swag to accompany it. This beautiful hourglass emblazoned with the game’s logo on top and bottom. The premise behind it is that it only takes 10 minutes to see why the game is so amazing. I’ll be the judge of that, but I think someone goofed as mine only timed out at less than 5 minutes of sand. Below are pics of the swag, but if you want to check out my first impressions of the game, head on over to SBG.