I actually enjoyed several of the card games back in the day. I actually didn't totally hate F-16 fighting Falcon at the time, though it's my least favorite one now. If I ever buy an SMS again, I definitely will get Ghost House, My Hero, and Teddy Boy. Those 3 are actually really fun, and Ghost House has surprisingly decent visuals for such a small game. I played the hell out of it when I was a kid.

In general, the card games were the smallest SMS games because they could only hold like 512K or something (I don't know the actual size). So you'd have to expect that you're not going to get much more than an arcade-style game. There are plenty of black-box variants on the NES that had similar levels of depth (Wrecking Crew, Balloon Fight, etc.) but I think we're all a bit more forgiving on those games because they were developed by the same people who worked on Kid Icarus, Metroid and Zelda--games we have an extreme appreciation of. As such, I think I percieve these NES games as having a lot more character and personality than some of these SMS games just because of my association with the other, higher-profile games that look and sound similar. But the three SMS card games that I mentioned really are good, despite this.