One of my students showed me his Digimon game device after class. It has a card reader built-in and you can use various cards to power-up your Digimon.
Some of the names were a bit dubious, though. “Sky-Horse Monster“? Then there’s the “Little yellow dragon Monster” which is apparently named because it is little, dragon-like and … red. The text on the cards is just as questionable. “The comdition of evolution” and “The rolling blood tide like the blooming red lotus, a flaming dragon with sharp paw.”
The device itself has a Bandai copyright in Japanese on the back of it but I suspect the cards aren’t Officially Approved Bandai Merchandise.
How times have changed, though. Back in my day, we threw old tennis balls at each other for fun. It hurt like hell but it built character. Granted, we’d rather have computer games than character but we made do as best as we could.
Man, I can’t wait to get my GBA SP.
