Does anyone remember video game cards?

[thahurricanegame]

I bought a few packs of mint sealed Nintendo cards that come in like yellow packaging for dirt cheap as well..

Does anyone recall these cards or scratch cards I think they're properly titled?

I haven't' opened the pack and probably won't but I was curious as to who remembers buying these things when they came out over two decades ago..

[Compute]

I have a vague recollection of them, but not much more. If I remember right, they had game hints. If it's the right memory, the scratch-offs are not nearly as fun as actually playing the games :P

[JSoup]

I recall getting video game bubble gum cards as a kid. You'd buy these game system shaped containers for $2, it would have some gum and a few video game trading cards with game hints on the back. I remember them being frustratingly not standard trading card size.

[Greg2600]

Topps made Nintendo cards, based on NES games. They also did a Donkey Kong set before that. Topps basically made trading cards for everything you can imagine.

[Aussie2B]

Yeah, I have some of those Nintendo scratch cards. Video game trading cards are actually pretty common, but they mostly stay in Japan. A lot of them are games (like the Pokemon cards), but some sets are purely for looking at.

[JSoup]

Now I think about it, I have a few Donkey Kong Country 2 trading cards that came out of a vending machine at a Toys R Us.

[Oldskool]

I got 21 new/sealed packs of these at one of the local Goodwills about 6 months ago. All for 25 cents. One of them was a bit open and I took a peek. Each pack comes with 3 sctratch offs and 2 stickers.

I think they were supposed to be 25 cents per pak - not sure. But she rang them all up for 25 cents.

[sloan]

Nintendo sold e-reader games for the Game Boy Advance. I think they were just re-releases of old NES titles.

You played them by swiping them like a debit card.

[jb143]

I have a few packs of Zelda cards that I won in one of the 12 days of Christmas Contests here a few years ago. Same as the Mario ones posted above. I haven't opened them. I might open one because cards are cooler than a paper package but I'm not sure the collector in me will let me do it.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Topps made Nintendo cards, based on NES games. They also did a Donkey Kong set before that. Topps basically made trading cards for everything you can imagine.

Also FLEER. The sides of the pinball machine I had in my basement as a child were plastered with FLEER's Dragon's Lair card/stickers.

[sloan]

NEC famously released its PC Engine and Turbografx-16 games on Hu Cards.

Lesser known are the Sega Master System games that came out in card form. I always why Sega went with the dual format for Master System games.

[MachineGex]

I have a bunch of these Nintendo ones. I use to include a pack with all my game trades and game sales as a bonus/thank you. I also have a box of the Pacman cards and a box of the Super Pacman cards. I may also have a box of Ms. Pacman cards. They are neat, my son has opened at least two boxes of the Nintendo cards over the years. He has the stickers on everything.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Nintendo sold e-reader games for the Game Boy Advance. I think they were just re-releases of old NES titles.

You played them by swiping them like a debit card.

NEC famously released its PC Engine and Turbografx-16 games on Hu Cards.

Lesser known are the Sega Master System games that came out in card form. I always why Sega went with the dual format for Master System games.

Um.

Those aren't what's being discussed.

The OP is talking about wax-pack bubblegum/baseball/wacky-package type trading cards.

[Aussie2B]

There's always at least one person too lazy to read anything but the topic title. :/

[rbudrick]

I got 21 new/sealed packs of these at one of the local Goodwills about 6 months ago. All for 25 cents. One of them was a bit open and I took a peek. Each pack comes with 3 sctratch offs and 2 stickers.

I think they were supposed to be 25 cents per pak - not sure. But she rang them all up for 25 cents.

I think I have a few packs of these along with the box that held them that fit on the candy rack at the store. Lol, CIB OMGR4RE!

-Rob

[Greg2600]

Apparently Twin Galaxies (Walter Day) has produced video game player trading cards....

http://www.beckett.com/news/2012/04/...trading-cards/

The Topps DK cards I said were from 1982.



Topps made Sonic cards in 1993 as well.

http://sega-memories.blogspot.com/20...-best-and.html

[Collector_Gaming]

Apparently Twin Galaxies (Walter Day) has produced video game player trading cards....

http://www.beckett.com/news/2012/04/...trading-cards/

actually in the documentary i watched on netflix about the history of arcade games and such. Walter I believe or one of the gamers being interviewed (actually i think it was billy mitchell who said it) talked about the cards and such.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

actually in the documentary i watched on netflix about the history of arcade games and such. Walter I believe or one of the gamers being interviewed (actually i think it was billy mitchell who said it) talked about the cards and such.

Face it, this is the only video game trading card that you ever need to have.

[Collector_Gaming]

Face it, this is the only video game trading card that you ever need to have.

according to billy anything with his name stamped on it is all you ever need to have.

with his attitude you'd think he could sell a yugo to donald trump.

[Aussie2B]

My favorite part is that he's the first card in the set, haha.