I've been meaning to write another blog for a while now so I've decided to write about some of the other video game stuff I've collected over the years. Since I was younger I loved card games. Starting with Poke'mon I moved to DBZ, then Yu-Gi-Oh, then to dot//HACK, and last Magic The Gathering. I was a senior in High School when I decided to quit playing/collecting and sold all my cards. This eventually lead to me collecting Video game but that's a different story. Anyways my love of collecting cards never really faded and after a friend from work gave me a bunch of Nintendo Power Super Power Club cards I decided to collect Video game cards.
The first few pages are filled with the scratch off/ sticker cards from Nintendo's Game Packs made by Topps. I wish I knew about these when I was younger. These are almost 20 years old so the stickers don't stick well and the scratch off material have kinda set in. The stickers have little tips that cover the 6 games the cards depict: Super Mario Bro., Super Mario Bros. 2, The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, Punch Out! and Double Dragon. I managed to buy a whole display bow of these with the box but sadly it has a big black X on it. This is the only Complete set I have in this binder, Im lucky I guess to get them all in one box.
Next is the Nintendo Power cards. For a time in Nintendo Power printed these cards and put 6 of them in issues for fan of the magazine to collect and trade. They featured Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Gameboy games. On the back of each is a description of each game and 3 challenges for Novice, Intermediate and Pro players. There are a lot of these to my understanding and I'm just happy to have some of my favorites like Final Fantasy 3, illusion of Gaia, Soul Blazer and Super Metroid. Not pictured, but I also have a few non Power Club Cards from Nintendo Power, a set of Mortal Kombat 3 cards and Mega Man X2 Cards featuring the Robot Masters.
After all this is the UFS Series. These are actually Card Game cards. The UFS series covered a few different Fighting franchises including DarkStalkers, Street Fighter and my all time favorite Soul Calibur. I really enjoy the artwork of these and it kind of makes me want to pick it up and find someone else to play with. I have a few different copies of my favorite characters and 3 starter decks. Most of them are Soul Calibur except for a few Chun-Li cards in back.
That's it for now, I have more to show you all but it'll have to wait. Thanks for reading!
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Nice collection of cards you have there.  I have a few Nintendo Power cards myself including Virtual Boy cards, Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country and DKC2. I also have a couple packs of Lego Star Wars II cards that came as a pre-order bonus and a couple misc cards included inside games like Mega Man Command Mission.
I especially like your Zelda set. Nintendo had a different feel to their marketing and paraphernalia back then and I personally find stuff from that age much more interesting. Maybe because it was a more honest attempt to break into mainstream acceptance by dipping their toes into other hobbies like cards, or maybe it's because I like the 2D Zelda's more. 
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I have tht first set pictured. I bought 2 boxes of them. The first box I opened, and like you, I was able to get a complete set. The second box, I kept unopened, but like yours, oddly enough, mine also has a big black X on it. I wonder why they did this.
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@Tan, Thanks! There are some I lost I wish I still had. I use to have a loose set of Earthbound sratch and sniff cards from the players guide and some Final Fantasy Tactic cards that came with some magazine.
@Jared, Yours has the X too? I got mine off of Ebay and all the Packs have Hot Topic pricing stickers on them so I wonder if they did it.
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I never saw that third set before. I think I've still got a few of the Mortal Kombat cards somewheres around. Wish I still had the sticker album for mario.
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