Collectibles: Trading Cards

Today's topic is nineties trading cards (or collectible cards). This is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or objects (fictional or real). On these cards are a short description of the picture, along with other text such as attacks, statistics and other trivia. There is a wide variety of trading cards an there is distinction between sport cards (like baseball and basketball) and non-sports trading cards that often feature cartoons, comics, book characters or stills from television series/films.

In the 90's, cards designed specifically for playing games became very popular, and became a category of their own: collectible card games (CCG). The world's current best-selling CCG is Yu-Gi-Oh! The CCG all have their own set of rules, which all the players have to follow and are usually accompanied by a starter set (an introductory product that contains enough cards for 2 players and includes instructional information on how to play the game). Next to the starter set are also the tournament/starter deck, theme deck and booster packs.

Some other well-known trading cards from the 90's are: Dragonball Z, Pokémon, Marvel Trading Cards (comics) and Digimon.

 

This was all on trading cards!