Green Gecko wrote:I still have a crap load of gen1 cards that are all flat and currently wrapped in cling film and card.. is it worth digging them out for you? They're pretty much all from around 1999. A few handfuls worth.
(When I say dig out, I mean across the room from me behind my N64 games on a shelf.)
Potentially? I mean, I'm not exactly in the market for old formats... but it would be nice to build some of the Base-Fossil stuff for fun... which is basically just low value stuff (Hitmonchan, Electabuzz, Scyther, trainer cards). I'm not a collector of that stuff by any measure though.
Vermilion wrote:Wrathy wrote:I’m almost tempted to ask if you’d be willing to part ways with any of it lol. Old school cards are unbeatable for their nostalgia value. We seem to have lost my good folder of them at my parents house which is a real shame.
Nah, i've had numerous clear outs over the years and every time the folders have stayed put.
Might be worth me making a video of them at some point though as then you'll be able to have a closer look.
A video would be very cool!
Ironhide wrote:I don't get the appeal of trading card games, I've played the PC version of Magic: the Gathering and Hearthstone but neither held my attention for more than a few hours, I had a few games against other players and got utterly destroyed every single time and ended just going "strawberry float this" and never bothered playing either again.
It's a social thing as much as anything else. I don't like the internet ones anywhere near as much, but they're useful in a general sense for practice and getting to understand the game overall.
Hyperion wrote:Played Magic about 20 years ago. Have some rare cards as well that are now my pension
If you do it might be worth getting them PSA graded. Costs about £20 per card, but means you get them authenticated and preserved in a manner which makes the value absolutely
skyrocket to the hardcore collectors. For example:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Magic-the-Ga ... Swlila3i6IVermilion wrote:I learned to play the Pokemon card game by playing the Game Boy Color game.
It's been so long since then though that i wouldn't have a clue how to play nowadays.
Yeah... you've got a bit of a grounding because a lot of the core concepts (energy, evolution, unlimited abilities, one attack per turn) are the same but there are a bunch of other things which are totally different. And it's a huge money sink, and there's a far more established competitive circuit these days.