Forgotten Pokemon Card Game

"Drawing cards for gold" always has a special attraction for people. This craze is particularly prevalent in today's mobile game industry. However, the fond memories of "drawing cards" may have been rooted in the memory of China people.

Twenty years ago, an animation called Poké mon (later, it was called Poké mon) began to broadcast on TV stations in China, which was followed by a large number of related peripheral products. Children were quickly brainwashed by a creature called Pikachu, and collecting toys related to it became a daily task between classes.

1996, the first Poké mon game was released in Japan. In order to improve their influence, developers have specially produced related card games and animations. However, Nintendo wouldn't have thought that the peripheral products originally launched to promote its own games gained more popularity in China than games.

Of course, all this has to be "attributed" to the help of domestic piracy, because the official card of Baokemeng has never been registered in the Chinese mainland market, and has only been issued in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong. 1999, Baokemengka was listed in North America. Toy manufacturers saw the business opportunity of this IP and brought it to China. Among them, the most famous brand is "Big Winter Melon".

At that time, pirates completely copied the pattern and design style of the American version of the card, and translated the skill introduction and materials into Chinese. With the low price of China card and cartoons on TV, the popularity of Baokemeng grew rapidly at that time.

Children are naturally not satisfied with the collection of cards. The so-called "fighting with others is fun", since it is called TCG, fighting is also an essential part. Different from the official stickers, cards have a set of detailed and perfect rules for fighting. The original intention of the designer is to let people enjoy the fun of the game without the game.

Domestic pirates "re-carved" the appearance of the card, but did not bring the corresponding rules to China. In addition, the audience at that time were young and could not understand the complex skill description on the card. However, since I arrived in China, I naturally came up with a way of playing that conforms to China's "national conditions"-big and small competitions.

Perhaps my friends at that time were very savvy, or they were lucky. In short, the number on the card was quickly interpreted as blood volume. So the battle of the elves in China became a competition of blood volume. A card with low blood volume and high attack is often thrown aside as a "bad horse", while a dreamy card with high blood volume is the object of competition.

The pirates who keep pace with the times immediately found the consumer demand and launched a card with higher blood volume. Finally, these pirated cards are just like the fighting power in the later period of hot-blooded comics, and some even broke through the "horizon".

Over time, changing cards in Pokemon game has become a topic of discussion among friends. These exaggerated pirated cards have also withdrawn from the stage of the times. Many people think that this card game has declined, but in foreign countries, PTCG (Pokemon Trading Card Game) still maintains a high popularity.

Due to official card shops and competitions, the popularity of Baokemengka in Europe, America and Japan is much higher than that in China. Every year, the Poké mon World Championship representing the highest level of PTCG will be held in the United States.

PTCG, like many other card games, also has the saying of "quitting the environment". With the update of the version, many cards will be introduced, but some old cards will soon become collectors' favorite objects because they are difficult to obtain and of good quality. In Zhang Baocun, a good rare card can often fetch an incredible price at auction.

The reason is to start with the original game card. What most domestic players don't know is that on the genuine card issued in 1996, the official has designed the rarity for each card, which corresponds to different types according to the symbols in the lower right corner of the card.

The original card package sold in 1996 was priced at 300 yen (about RMB 18 yuan), but each package only had 10 card, and the government did not set a "guarantee prize" for each package. In other words, as long as your face is dark enough, it is not impossible to open several ordinary cards or energy cards in a row.

Without the guarantee of "guarantee mechanism", it is very difficult to open a rare card, and a rare flash card with a popular dream can already fetch a very high price at the auction.

In the field of collection, the price of a card is influenced by many factors, such as rarity, exquisiteness of the picture, popularity and so on.

This first generation of fire-breathing dragons is a good example. Fire-breathing dragon has always been a popular dream of American players, and it was once sold for tens of thousands of dollars at auction because of its rarity, flash and small amount of existence. In the collection circle, this kind of card is called "Cohen Card", which refers to some expensive and extremely rare cards.

However, in the early version, the most popular cards for collectors are not ordinary high Khan cards obtained by conventional unpacking, but some cards with more special access channels.

For example, this Pikachu with unique painting style was an activity prize held by Nintendo in 1999 to promote the N64 photography game Bao Photo Studio (a game that allows players to shoot treasures in the game). Different from ordinary cards, this pattern comes from the game photos provided by the contestants. Due to the small circulation and unique painting style, this card also sold for 1 10,000 US dollars.

And this commemorative card named "Illustrator Pikachu" can be regarded as the most expensive Poké mon card at present. As the excellent prize of the "Baokemeng Illustration Competition" held in 1997, only 39 copies were issued, so it fetched a sky-high price of $654.38+10,000 at the auction.

Baokemeng's cards will release supplementary packages according to the launch of new games. With the innovation of technology and materials, the painting style has developed from watercolor hand painting to CG painting. According to the characteristics of each generation, cards will also introduce corresponding mechanisms.

In the "Pearl Diamond" version, the three-dimensional Baokemeng card is added to the suit, and the card with the effect of "flying out of the frame" has also become one of the representatives of advanced Hanka.

In the "black and white" version, the official officially launched the now common "SR, SSR" grades to evaluate the rarity of the brand. A "full map card" with illustrations filling the whole card has also been added as another representative of Cohen Card.

In the "XY" version, there is a more gorgeous "game-breaking evolution" card, which requires players to combine two cards to complete the game-breaking evolution. After evolution, packages can use the skills of two cards at the same time.

Although the number is small, domestic players have formed their own small circle, often organizing offline competitions and trading activities, and some of them have witnessed the prosperity and decline of pirated cards in China.

Old players of Baokemeng will be excited about the China version of the Sun and Moon, and new players will be attracted by the soft and lovely shapes of Pikachu and Ibrahimovic. But there are still a group of people who will stay up all night because they find a rare card. They are also Bao's "elite trainers".