Intellivision Series 5 Trading Cards
This was an early video of mine, in which I learned there’s not a lot of interest in Trading Cards. 🙁 I believe this is also the only video on the channel containing a movie review as a video bonus!
Trading cards do exist and can currently be purchased for game consoles including the Intellivision and Atari 7800 consoles. Check out this video to learn more.
Purchase Intellivision Series 5 Trading Cards:
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/240796-intellivision-trading-cards-series-5/page-1
Marc’s AA thread for Atari 2600 Trading Cards:
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/233361-atari-2600-trading-cards-series-1/
AA User ‘PBOLAND’ Colecovision Trading card thread:
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/191846-colecovision-trading-cards-with-binder/
Purchase reproduction game boxes:
http://retrogamesshop.com/
History material sourced from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_card
Transcript:
Trading cards have a rich history and are usually associated with Sports ; mainly baseball. The non sports trading cards are often considered a separate category from sport cards. They often feature cartoons, comic book characters, TV series and film stills. Early in the 1990 trading cards were designed specifically for playing games and became popular enough to develop into a distinct category, called, collectible card games. These tend to use fantasy subjects or sports as the basis for game play.
If we go way back in history, all the way back to 1886, some of the earliest prizes found in retail products were cigarette cards, outrageous I know, that was one of the many ways they used to advertise their product. By the end of the 1880s the earliest baseball cards were appearing right about the same time baseball became a professional sport. In 1950, baseball trading cards were starting to be included in bubble gum packs, a tradition which continues to this day. I remember growing up buying the Big League Chew gum and the Bazooka Gum and the Topps Gum and trading various baseball cards with my friends.
So If we collect baseball cards, pokemon cards, etc, why not extend that philosophy to Atari and Intellivision game trading cards? Why not?
Well one reason may have been because they didn’t exist back in the 1980’s when these game consoles were popular. So that’s the void that is being filled by a gentleman in Germany who goes by the name Marc Oberhäuser. I hope I didn’t kill that name too much. I don’t know a lot about him, but I do know that he does produce and sell trading cards, a total of 5 sets for the Intellivision and two for the Atari 7800. So far. These Intellivision trading card sets are beautifully designed and include a nice trading card box. The Atari 7800 trading card sets came with a plastic carrying case. Marc optionally offers for sale , trading card boxes which have the same dimensions as a standard video game box. These trading cards are rather pricey, but I believe the high build quality makes them well worth it.
He also sells many reproduction game boxes for various game systems and his boxes are often the ones you would receive if you purchase a homebrew game from say Atariage.
He is currently working on getting permission from Atari to start producing a set of Trading Cards for the Atari 2600. There is a thread on AA regarding this.
I know this sounds like a bit of an advertisement and in a way it is, but I understand there are a few other people out there producing and selling trading cards for video game consoles such as Atariage user ‘PBOLAND’ for, Colecovision, just not sure if they are still available for purchase. Check the link in the notes below the video. I am sure there are others out there as well, so if you know of any, I sure would love to hear about them, please drop me a comment. So here’s a quick unboxking of my latest arrival for the trading cards and you can see the trading cards for the Intellivision come in this beautiful box, beautifully designed box. Trading cards inside. And then optionally you can purchase the box for the box. This goes right in there. Now I can add it to the collection. Okay for the first time, I wanted to throw in a bonus movie review in my video. Today’s movie is “The Imitation Game”, staring Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the part of Alan Turing. It also co-stars Keira Knightley who plays the part of Joan Clarke. It was a very well acted film, well written, well directed. It talked a lot about the technology that was used to break the Nazi encryption back during World War 2. There was a little bit of language in the film and it was rated PG-13, but if you can get past that it’s a pretty gripping film to watch. It puts you in the mind of Alan Turing, a great scientist of his day, so check it out!
Youtube Original Post Date: 08/30/2015
