Pocket Monster Pokémon Playing Cards
date: label: date made
content: 1996
name: label: maker
content: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: These Japanese Pocket Monster (Pokémon) playing cards individually represent various Pokémon characters. Each card displays a portrait of each character with relative gameplay information about the character, such as health point and elemental alignment. All language text is Japanese. These cards belong to the "Gym" set of of Pokémon trading cards. There are a total of 61 cards, composed of 17 "trainer" cards and 44 "Pokémon" cards. These cards were used in tangent with the "Energy" playing cards. Each card has a small inscription in the bottom left of each character side of the card that denotes the name of the illustrator. The maker field indicates copyright holder. The back of the card displays a print of a pokéball with the words "Pocket Monsters Card Game" encircling it.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Judy Gradwohl
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3016.24
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3016
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3016.24
objectType: label: Object Name
content: playing cards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall (one card) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (one card): 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm