One of the relics of the 80’s and 90’s that I kind of miss seeing is the video game trading card. They were kind of like baseball cards, but for video games. Or, to put it another way, they were like Pokémon TCG cards, except you couldn’t play a game with them, and they covered more than one game.
So, totally rad, in other words.
Enter the Zap Pax, pictured here in Unopened Box Form(tm).
These are trading cards that feature Battletoads, Adventure Island, and… probably others?
To be honest, I just couldn’t bring myself to rip open the plastic and kill the collector’s value of these things, so I don’t really know what they look like. The Internet is surprisingly unhelpful here. Outside of the odd eBay auction, there don’t seem to be too many pictures of these things floating around out there, either. That’s too bad, because after all this time, I kind of wanted to see what was in my box, without actually opening my box.
I suppose I won’t be able to do one without doing the other, but I can dream, can’t I?
