Forum - View topicAnime TCG
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fighterholic
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I don't know if we can discuss this, but I'll try anyway. If the mods don't like it, then I will accept.
How many of you collect cards for TCG's based on anime? I have Pokemon, YuGiOh, Naruto and Digimon cards. Unfortunately I don't know how to play ANY of these games, I just collect them because of the cool pictures and completing all the booster packs. So far I have ten complete booster pack series for YuGiOh and seven complete series for Pokemon. But I have to say, collecting cards for 8 years can be very expensive. I've always had to scourage around and ask people if they don't need their card collections. When they give them to you, that's really helpful. |
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Space_cowboy64
 Posts: 337 Location: Great Britain...not all that great |
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i have some pokemon japanese cards and also some dragonball z cards too
i think i know how to play pokemon its kinda fun from what i can remember 
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outlawwolf
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I used to collect Pokemon cards when I was younger and I tried my hand at digimon, but I lost focus on both and just stopped. I think I sold all of my rare cards and made a nice chunk of change. TCG's are a bit too rich for my broke college ass though so I won't be doing that again any time soon.
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Fui
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I was such a sucker for the Pokemon TCG that came out. I have like 15 holographic cards, went to card conventions a couple of times, and had a decently good deck (kadabras/alakazham, mewtwo/mew, 3 hitmonchans :D, 2 machamps, 2 mr.mimes, and several annoying trainer cards like computer search, professor oak, and super energy removal). I used to play against some friends and my brother (I always beat his water/fire deck since he didn't collect as much). It's actually a pretty fun game but I quit maybe 4 years ago since we all eventually lost interest in it, along with the show itself. That's the first and last time I'll ever collect TCs, though.
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hentai4me
 Posts: 1313 Location: England. Robin is so Cute! |
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I think the reason anime TCG games tend to fail is that to play properly you need to be competitive and that requires getting several copies of every card in every set and thats inordinately expensive. Most anime TCG players are likely to be the younger 10-14 age brackets and thus not have the kind of income to do it sucessfully. They succeed when the players are from an older age category, see M:TG for example. Another problem is that to play it for fun requires a group of similarly minded players with similar spending abilities, if one or two of the group get enough money to form a very strong deck and everyone else gets left behind often they'll drop out and the fun stops.
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camelot187757
 Posts: 426 Location: The Nacirema Dream (17 and counting Asuka) |
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Ah man you're taking it back....
Back in the day my entire elementary school was on Pokémon. I'm talking about we hustled the damm cards like some bad 40's gangster movie. (Myahh see!! ; Got the cards see myahh!!). I knew a guy named Raymond who was so rich he was like the Al Capone of our school when it came to Pokemon. (Damm we were on some fake-mafia-sh*t when it came down to pokemon) Boys bathroom was transformed into the sell joint and we (including myself  ) layed some serious money on the (bathroom)floor when it came to it. I think at the time I must have spent a good $60 on those damm cards and I was almost always broke. A teacher would walk in the bathroom and you'd swear that we had to be selling drugs or something because we jumped to the urinals and played possum and the guys that weren't fast enough got notes home.
I remember a good friend of mine stole my guide to pokemon book and my holo pidgey-something and i fought the guy. I fought him over some damm cards. It got so bad that our princial rewrote the rules in our little rule book and specifcally mentioned "Pocketmon"  cards in the things that we couldn't bring to school but of course no one cared.
Another funny thing was that (I realized later on in life) not a single person knew how to play the thing correctly. We just made up rules and played each other out to see who would budge to who's rules and end up losing. But here's a funny thing: I remember a guy named Anthony and his little brother came in and flooded the market with his Digimon cards and it was like Pokemon slowly died out. Yes my $60 of I'm-eleven-years-old-in-the-fifth-grade-it-was-all-I-had-at-the-time money was worthless  when those two guys single handedly killed the pokemon market (Poor raymond was out back ). Eventually that died and the _____mon TCG epidemic ended at little old Camelot Elementary (guess what my user name is named after  )
_____________________________________________________ Fast forward a few years and go to 7th grade and what do we have? Yu-Gi-oh cards came through. Now we weren't as crack fiendin for those as we (at least the guys that came from my school) were with Pokemon but that crap put some holes in our pockets because not only did we actually know how to play thanks to the shows knack for breaking it down in such a way you had to try it out, but we had more money than we did back in 99. I think I spent about $140 in that era but we also played for money. Our now-flailing anime club held tournaments and crap but winners got a little bit of paper out of it. Either that or some "rare" card but you get what I'm saying. AH DBZ, Pokemon, Digimon, and Yu-Gi-Oh, Bathrooms, and damm near getting suspended. The good old days |
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fighterholic
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A few years ago when I was in high school I'd go out to the streets and sell my extra YuGiOh cards to these grade school level kids. I remember some kid bought 40 dollars worth of normal cards off me. About 400 cards. I probably made a good 500 dollars over the years.
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