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I guess I was a hardcore gamer before I knew what hardcore gaming was. I'm a 32 year old lifelong gamer who lives in Hayward and who works at a game company. I used to write for various small music webzines and was well on my way to living the life of a professional college student, but games are a hell of a lot more interesting than indie music snobbery. Anyway, Destructoid seems to be a fairly cool place for me to spout off my uninformed and biased opinions... So hi! I hope you are all doing well.

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Video City game stickers from 1983
ErbilT | 10:16 PM on 08.17.2009 13 comments


If you ever go to the Mission District in San Francisco and are just craving a milkshake or some decent diner food. There is a place on 24th street called St. Francis Fountain that is pretty amazing. Not only can you get a fine milkshake at the place, but they also sell vintage Topps movie and entertainment cards for the 70's, 80's and early 90's. One of the sticker packs that caught my eye at the place was the Video City sticker cards.



I remember my mom buying these for me when I was young, but it's been so long that I forgot about them until I saw the Turbo scratch off card included in one of the packs. The date on the packs state that these were produced in 1983, so these cards are a good 26 years old. Kinda crazy that I remember them due to the Turbo cards, but they also had some stickers with some horrible artwork for Frogger, Donkey Kong Junior and Zaxxon. Anyway, I'd figured that I'd post them so you all could see. Sorry about the quality of the pics, I took them at work with my iPhone, but they get the message across.











They had another card set that was dedicated to Donkey Kong Junior and I'll probably go back and pick up a pack of those later, but I just wanted to so you all how awesome the art was for these cards. There were some other cards that I wanted to pick up for the nostalga factor as well, ""they also had Yo MTV Raps cards, cards from the movie Dune, Garbage Pail Kids stickers and New Kids On The Block cards"



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SuitcoatAvenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/17/2009 22:56
SuitcoatAvenger
So I imagine you play the scratch off's by going along a path until you encounter something that kills you...? That's pretty cool.

Also, "hippety, hoppety, flippety, floppety, bippety, boppity... frogger" makes me laugh.
Das Inchworm's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/17/2009 23:06
Das Inchworm
man i think i still have like 50 Garbage pail kids cards in a drawer somewhere.

Also, how was the gum?
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/17/2009 23:28
pedrovay2003
Wow, that Frogger one is awesome.
ErbilT's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/17/2009 23:29
ErbilT
@DAS INCHWORM: It had brown flecks in it. I would have taken pics, but my friend attempted to chew it. It just broke apart.
Dyson's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/17/2009 23:34
Dyson
I know where I'm going soon!
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/18/2009 01:14
Monodi
I love the very early look of videogame propaganda, they look too glowy and cheesy like a lot of stuff from the 80s.
Qalamari's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/18/2009 01:22
Qalamari
I remember these! One of my friends had one that was based on Pac-Man and he got pissed that I did the whole thing in one go.
Artemus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/18/2009 03:58
Artemus
That is one helluva rare, cool find.
Good shakes and diner food, huh?
Considering I live in the Bay Area, I'm going. =)
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/18/2009 06:33
RonBurgandy2010
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm old gum
mcbennet's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/18/2009 09:37
mcbennet
awesome! i have nintendo ones that are exactly like the ones you posted, with the scratch off stuff. remnants of childhood :D
The Prodigal Son's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/18/2009 11:59
The Prodigal Son
I remember the DK jr. scratch offs. I had completely forgotten about them until I saw the pic. I don't think I ever won on those.
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