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[Slynky]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by Slynky:
Well, so a lot of people said about Pokemon cards (as people never acutally used them...just collected them).

Pokemon is a rather poor game to begin with...

But anyways... the few people I know that buy pokemon cards all buy them to play, as do most people that buy cards of card games.

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I agree with you (kind of). I just collected them because of the prospective potential of value...then I got "screwed" when the bottom fell out... . But, the conventions I went to were mostly dealing with collecting...not playing. Guys (and some girls) rarely pulled them from their protective sleeves. Me included...mine were sealed in pLastic sleeves with a soldering iron and a metal ruler.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

could be interesting...but, as someone said, who would you play with?

[gregebowman]

My main concern is how much would it affect my wallet? I mean, I can't even think about collecting cards anymore, what with them being anywehre from $2-$5 a pack. Sheesh, I can remember when I used to buy a pack of 8-10 cards for a quarter, and there would also be a stick of bubblegum in there also. My, how the times have changed.

[Taera]

just hold old are you?
(just kidding)

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Taera:
just hold old are you?
(just kidding)

Too damn old, that's for sure. (FYI, I'm 41.) They heyday of my card collecting was probably during my school days. I was collecting baseball & football cards from probably the late 60's until the non-sport cards like Star Wars and other movie related cards from the late 70's and early 80's. I may have stayed with collecting them, but I was more into comic books, and I had to quit anyway when I got married. Just couldn't afford it at the time. My, I sure had sticker shock when I tried collecting cards almost a decade later.

[ January 06, 2004, 17:50: Message edited by: gregebowman ]

[Atrocities]

I have Star Wars Cards.

I have the blue, red, yellow, green, and orange sets or parts of them floating around some place. Now those were GD cool cards. I can still remember all the buzz that star wars created. What a great movie it was and still is.

[Kamog]

I used to have some Star Wars cards, but they are long gone now. I seem to remember that if you collect the whole set, the back of the cards form a big picture. But I didn't have all the cards to complete the puzzle.