In other news, here are a whole lot more of the Korean Street Fighter II cards Hardcore Gaming 101 has reported about in the past several times.
Showing posts with label Super Power System. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Power System. Show all posts
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Street Fighter II newspaper advertisement (and more Super Power System card pics inside)
I stumbled upon this old news while weeding through early 90s Korean game magazines today. Apparently, Street Fighter has been advertised on a full page in the Yomiuri Shimbun of March 24th 1992, which must have been quite a novum. Has to be when a Japanese newspaper ad gets reported in a Korean computer mag.
In other news, here are a whole lot more of the Korean Street Fighter II cards Hardcore Gaming 101 has reported about in the past several times.
In other news, here are a whole lot more of the Korean Street Fighter II cards Hardcore Gaming 101 has reported about in the past several times.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Super Power System cards revealed!
No one responded to our request for information on what the Super Power System cards actually are, so I went heavy Google Hunting, which sort of revealed an answer – IN THE THAI LANGUAGE NO LESS!
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Turns out SPS cards are supposed to come with some kind of blacking-out semi-transparent plastic sheeting, which in the below photo shows that it combines with the black markers on the card to form numbers.
Presumably to then be used in some form of card battles. The plastic sheath appears to be called a “Scouter” and there was also an orange plastic one used for something else. Perhaps there were different types of Scouters, which augmented cards differently?
This would give the original SFII cards the following numbers, presumably:
Zangief – 90
Ryu – 43
M Bison – 80
Dhalsim – 48
E Honda – 04
Sagat – 94
And I couldn’t be bothered trying to work out what the rest meant. It’s all a bit disappointing, really, like some kind of cheap toy you’d get in a box of cereal.
But can you imagine, there must have been hundreds of kids all over Korea and Thailand trading and playing with these SPS cards back in the early 1990s. It was certainly similar in South Africa (where I recall Ninja Turtle stickers were hugely popular when I was young). I guess the urge for kids to collect and trade things is a universal trait, regardless of cultural background?
The photos were taken from a Thai forum. I Babelfished the original poster’s message:
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DRAGON BALL CARDDASS COLLECTION & MORE ... Welcome friends. A visit to see friends this question to see the ball รา clot Card Collection of these I started accumulated since 1990 - 1991 ครับ. Some people may think it's tag is not just for me it is a great spiritual value. Just like many people like yourself is what's stored on them. Over time we see it back. Then give us a way to recall it when we do make? Happy every time I think the old days. We provide for this question. To people who are in love with me. Can talk and exchange experiences กันอ้อ! Also there is ด์ is the interchange can be done in the subject. This ครับ hope people have the same taste นะครับ caller. I will wait. If the old friends Rai Eriei to me. To see what may have passed from the hands of friends, some may view the other familiar objects that may be used to want to look? May be of ever existing. But later lost. One case or another. May be in store but not yet removed to the public. Hope this question will bring friends. To have these things. Be the subject of the meeting. Invite visits by disposition ครับ. After visits to be completed for complacency and smiles prior to a question from the other ครับ.
Dragon Ball CARDDASS Thai version ...... posted # 4.
* Device for playing cards SCOUTER, POWER SP SYSTEM.
* Three-dimensional cards.
* Card type energy use measured values of the human body temperature.
* Bonus cards from the pocket โอ de grandmother
* Card image circle.
* Book cards accumulated in the country.
* Types of cards found in Thailand
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Well, the guy’s message certainly has passion, and it was kinda heart-tugging the way he spoke about cards traded with friends and given to him by his grandmother. Still, not quite the Barcode Battler of the South China Seas I was expecting.
If you want to read it yourself, see below
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Click on the link at your own risk. This looks like the dodgiest foreign website I have ever seen... CAVEAT EMPTOR. Or rather, websurfer beware.
Man, someone should really archive his post, since I reckon it might be the only internet source for this stuff. Well, that and HG101!
Monday, August 10, 2009
Super Power System cards from Korea
Found at a British car-boot sale, we ask the question: what are these mysterious Street Fighter II themed cards, and what other weird merchandise is out there?
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Over on NTSC-uk, forum user Cauterize, of RetroGameDepot, posted a conundrum regarding some mysterious Street Fighter II themed cards he’d found for the Korean Super Power System (presumably South Korean, though I do know that North Koreans also like to get their GAME ON, and ALSO HERE and AGAIN HERE - though I think those last two photos are actually from the same North Korean computer camp).
Click the links for higher res shots of the cards.
Cauterize says:
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These cards I picked up at the boot sale years ago, but never got round to scanning or sorting out. I only found these 6 cards with nothing else to go with them. All I can make out is that they were for a 'Super Power System' that was made in Korea. My first guess is the small black marks are for scanning somehow. So any information on these will be greatly appreciated as Google isnt providing the info today
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(Original forum topic)
For our American readers, a boot is a car trunk, and a “car boot sale” is like a yard sale, except a whole bunch of Englishmen go and stand in a muddy farm on a Sunday morning, selling tat from their boots. Tat kinda means junk, except more valuable. I often buy tat from other people’s boots. It’s a stonking way to spend the morning, guv.
One forumite replied suggesting it might be some Korean form of Barcode Battler. If you have any information, please post in the comments section here, or directly in the original topic. I am eager to find out! Searching Google has yielded NOTHING.
Otherwise have a look at Cauterize’s blog, since he has an awesome collections of scans and photos, of ads and arcades.
But back to the topic of strange Street Fighter merchandise...
Despite being a well known, highly popular series, with SFII receiving maybe more magazine coverage than any other game at the height of its mania (I seem to recall every issue of EGM having something on it – or is that just my imagination?), there is a vast swathe of highly obscure stuff relating to SF which has been forgotten over time.
Part of the problem is that because it was so popular, Capcom and licensees rapidly started producing and selling merchandise (and some nefarious groups produced unofficial merchandise), all of which was regarded at the time as disposable. So records of what was available are shoddy at best.
Here’s a random link to a page talking about the series (which I’ve borrowed a magazine scan from).
I’d go as far as to say there’s mileage for a serious HG101 article in covering all the quirky merchandise and bumph that came out. The problem being of course that most would be impossible to source and photograph, leaving us to rely on random internet posts and old magazine scans.
I once found a dusty pack of SFII collecting cards in a rundown little store, hidden away on a shelf. From what I recall they had been printed in Australia for sale over there - how they ended up in the UK I don't know.Then there was an EGM competition from way back (the issue with M Bison attacking Guile on the cover), where in the letters page they spoke about someone winning a rare set of commemorative gold SFII coins. I've never seen a photo of these - but the mysterious item has remained on my mind over the years. Then of course there’s forum talk of Taiwanese pirate copies of the arcade game, where you could do crazy things like a hurricane kick that shot out multiple fireballs. Or something like that. Plus Famicom hack jobs, of which I've seen at least half-a-dozen in print, and played two of. It all gets very confusing.
(Image taken from NesPlayer)Do you have any bizarre Street Fighter related merchandise? Then email Kurt photos and if there’s enough we might do... something with them.
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