Pokémon Trading Cards series 1

Pokémon Official Trading Cards, informally known as Pokémon Trading Cards series 1, was a set of Pokémon cards manufactured by Topps in 1999. There were 90 cards in total: 76 Pokémon cards, 13 character cards, and a checklist card. Each of these 90 cards also had two foil card versions (silver and rainbow) in their main United States distributions. This set contained no bonus "chase cards".
Cards were sold in randomly distributed packets of five and eight. One card in each packet would be a randomly chosen foil card.
==Collecting summary==
Set 	Example front	No. of cards	Cards each pack 	Packs needed to finish
Non holo (blue logo on back) 	 	90/90 cards 	6 out of 7 cards each pack 	15 packs
Smooth silver foil 	 	90/90 cards 	1 out of 7 cards each pack*	90 packs
Smooth rainbow foil 	 	90/90 cards 	1 out of 7 cards each pack*	90 packs
Non holo (black logo on back)	 	90/90 cards 	6 out of 7 cards each pack 	15 packs
Sunrays silver foil 	 	90/90 cards 	1 out of 7 cards each pack*	90 packs
Sunrays rainbow foil 	 	90/90 cards 	1 out of 7 cards each pack*	90 packs
Non holo (green logo on back)	 	90/90 cards 	6 out of 7 cards each pack 	15 packs
Flames silver foil 	 	90/90 cards 	1 out of 7 cards each pack*	90 packs
Flames rainbow foil 	 	90/90 cards 	1 out of 7 cards each pack*	90 packs
Non holo (red logo on back) 	 	90/90 cards 	6 out of 7 cards each pack 	15 packs
Pokeballs silver foil 	 	90/90 cards 	1 out of 7 cards each pack*	90 packs
Pokeballs rainbow foil 	 	90/90 cards 	1 out of 7 cards each pack*	90 packs
Promo: Tin Topper 	 	5/5 cards 	1 every Tin 	5 Tins
Promo: Album 	 	1/1 cards 	1 Jumbo Pikachu each album 	n/a
 *Depends if it is a Silver or Rainbow foil booster pack.
==Cards in series 1==
===Pokémon===
===Character cards===
There are thirteen cards featuring characters from . The first four cards have a Pokédex-style entry on the featured character, the other nine have pieces of a puzzle on the back. The image formed by the puzzle is the same picture that is used on the front of the checklist card.
===Other===
==Editions==
There were four different printingsPokémon TV Series 1 (Jeff Allender's House of Checklist) from that were distributed in the US, most of Europe, and Australia. These cards all had an oval Nintendo seal. The printings are distinguished by a blue, black, green, or red Topps logo, with card texts being updated between the first (blue) and second (black) printings. Due to an error,pkmncollectors: Software for cataloguing Pokémon Topps Cards all foil cards after the first printing were printed with black logos, but can still be distinguished by the differences in their debossings.
There was only one print run made in the UK with the blue logo and round Nintendo logo on the back.
For all intents and purposes the blue logo cards are often considered part of the same set/version.
* USA 1st printing: blue logo on all cards, foil cards had a smooth texture with no debossings (with oval Nintendo logo on back).
* UK 1st printing: blue logo on all cards, foil cards had a smooth texture with no debossing (with round Nintendo logo on back).
* USA 2nd printing: black logo on all cards, Pokémon foil cards were debossed with rays and starbursts, while TV cards had a sandpaper finish.
* USA 3rd printing: green logo on non-foil cards only, Pokémon foil cards were debossed with flames and teardrops, while TV cards had dots and rectangles.
* USA 4th printing: red logo on non-foil cards only, Pokémon foil cards were debossed with Poké Balls and targets, while TV cards had dents.
A fifth printing featuring foil cards with a smooth finish but a black logo (features of both the 1st and 2nd printings) was also produced to an uncertain extent.
===US Produced Printings===
The US Topps locations produced 13 unique 90-card sets across all US printings. The 4 rainbow foil sets are not pictured.
Variation 	1st Printing (smooth)	2nd Printing (sunrays)	3rd Printing (flames)	4th Printing (pokeballs)
Logo Color 	 	 	 	
Pokémon Foil	 	 	 	
TV Card Foil	 	 	 	
===In other countries===
Versions of the cards were also produced for and some alternate languages. In addition to an English version for the UK, French, German, and Italian printings were produced by Topps' United Kingdom location, while Portuguese and Spanish printings were produced by Topps' location. These printings all feature a round Nintendo seal and a blue Topps logo, but none of these printings had a rainbow foil variation of the cards.
Each non-English printing has translated text on the backs of the cards. In French and German, the fronts of the cards were also translated, but in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, character and Pokémon names are often the same as in English, so they were left untranslated (notably including the Gary Oak, Professor Oak, and checklist cards).
===Topps' 75th Anniversary card set===
Topps' 75th Anniversary card set from 2013 featured stamped buyback cards, confirmed to include some cards from Series 1, Series 3 & Pokémon First Movie. These are cards that Topps bought from the secondhand market via the buyback program and stamped with a gold "Topps 75th" logo. Some of the cards that were from Series 1 in the 75th Anniversary set include: #5 Charmeleon, #13 Weedle, #36 Clefable, #45 Vileplume, #50 Diglett, #70 Weepinbell, #72 Tentacool, #74 Geodude. (non-foil) Clefairy (smooth silver foil)
==Promotional items==
===Tin toppers / Jumbo cards===
A set of five tins were also manufactured for series 1. The tins included seven packs of cards and an extra-large chrome card that matched the cover of the tin.
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===Tin toppers / Jumbo cards===
Set #	Front	Back	Pokémon
TT1 	 	 	
TT2 	 	 	
TT3 	 	 	
TT4 	 	 	
TT5 	 	 	
===Collectors Album & Jumbo Pikachu===
In the United Kingdom several promotional items were made to promote the Series 1 sets. One of those was a collectors album including a Jumbo Silver foil Pikachu.
==Trivia==
===Errors===
* In general, the cards do not capitalize words that are normally capitalized in the games and other media, like Trainer and Gym Leader. They will also add an "s" to Pokémon names to form a plural, when the plural form is normally the same as the singular.
* Jessie's name is misspelled "Jesse" everywhere it occurs. This happens in #23 Ekans, #24 Arbok, #47 Paras, and TV9.
* #05 Charmeleon incorrectly lists its first appearance as "Showdown at Dark City", while in reality, its animated series debut was the next episode "The March of the Exeggutor Squad".
* #18 Pidgeot misspells as Magicarp.
* #33 Nidorino misspells as Nidorano once.
* #39 Jigglypuff misspells temperamental as "tempermental".
* #48 Venonat mistakenly writes that loves to eats insects.
* #70 Weepinbell mistakenly omits a possessive apostrophe in "Weepinbells usual advantage".
* #71 Victreebel is misspelled as "Victreebel" throughout.
==References==
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