How Galactic Empires Tried To Sell You Its Starter Decks.
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- And now a look at a much, much older game that nonetheless makes a ton of mistakes.
Galactic Empires, by Companion Games, New York, was one of many "Sci-fi" games to come from the Wild West era of TCGs (1993-1999). It launched late '94 and lasted until late '96, making it another game to suffer the Two Year Curse.
Here we take a look at Basic Set B. There will be Asteroids, Shovels, and...Zoidberg? #SevenDeadlyTCGSins
"Hey let's make a card game!"
"What's it about?"
"Cards that are really hard to read."
*stare intensely*
Totally up for the "random box with starter decks" thing
Same. I bought a megaman nt warrior starter deck at an outlet store my family goes to for like 4 bucks. I did this just to own a piece of tcg history
It is a cool idea for sure
So funny, I have been feeling nostalgic for this game because I used to have a bunch of cards as a kid but never learned how to play. Seeing them through adult eyes makes me realize I dodged a bullet 😆
It looks like a random small card game instead of a tcg starter deck
So... we have barely-readable text, along with flavor text mixed up with rules text? Yow.
Like... if the flavor text was always its own separate blurb, you could kind of work around it, but many of the cards shown intermingle the flavor and rules within the same block, or even within the same *line* of text; you have no choice but to try and read *everything* on a card, because there is no way to know if important info is hidden among the fluff... and while that's bad enough, the illegibility of it all makes it so that you have know idea how important the text you're straining to read even is. Could be useless fluff, could be a devastating ability that makes the card awesome. You'll never know, because you've gone cross-eyed trying to read generic-font text over a Magic Eye Picture background!
Played this game a lot with my friends dad(who then became my friend) and it was something we played when we couldn't play DnD or Pathfinder. Lot of fun if someone in the room memorized all the rules. After a while you have so many resource producing planets you can ignore resources...til someone broke out the planet exploder deck.
My favorite build was a Leopan crew combat deck, since Leopan ships had no shields and instead had armor, they could freely transport their crew to and from ships and sabotage them or steal resources. Good times.
The art style and setting is pretty interesting too. Wish something came out of it.
Huh, Mark Poole did art for this game, he did a lot of artwork for early magic notably some of the earliest basic lands.
Not just him. There are more in the Booster Box.
Melissa Benson did the are for the R/C4 Security Officer, I'd recognize that signature from a mile away (also I love that art it is so absurd!). This is the same woman who did the iconic Shivan Dragon.
I am down for more videos like this. I have never heard of this game and the "wild west" era looks to be a "weird west" for sure!
"Primary Edition Basic DecK A" indeed, early years of card games, nowadays it would be something like "Starter Deck Intergalactic emperor" but yeah, kind of surprised it only lasted like 6 years
I hate to say it, but just going by the cards shown, this is something that might actually work as a card-based board game, where you can actually provide tokens to track all the fiddly bits and actually balance the cards as opposed to... whatever the hell the "balance" is here.
"Love Interest! That's another obstacle"
So, Kohdok, I'm curious to get your thoughts: given the lack of accepted "best practices" for CCG design, marketing, and support in 1994, would you say that there's more creativity in CCGs now or during the glut that immediately followed Magic's debut? Do you think the lessons to be gleaned from the now-evergreen market leaders have resulted in a more or less interesting products coming to market, regardless of how long they survive?
Yeah, I'd be curious to see an eBay bundle set of random card games. Go for it.
I still have a ton of these cards in a box somewhere. I was too young to understand how to play, but I loved the space ships and space dragons.
For what it's worth I'd be down for an assorted lot of random card games.
I noticed that some cards have copyright date in the illustration credit and others don't. How odd.
If I was to buy an eBay lot of random card games, I would hope the seller would be kind enough to put two copies of each game’s decks so I could at least try the game out.
Hmm 🤔 Interesting card game, btw have you heard about the new Metazoo tcg?
It might be cool to plan a viewer giveaway for all your excess weird decks and game paraphernalia, we all watch you and are interested enough in the games and game design to continue to watch you so we all might have more interest in these products then someone on eBay might give you. I think it would be a very cool way to thank all your viewers for all the support over the years, if you feel so inclined to do so
Yeah, these card frames ooze 90s TCG.
*Pats self on back*
Looks like a sweet idea for a mobile card game, not so much for manual play
The deck of cards contains many shovels
So they supply the Krieg with their ships?
Weird game but id play it if it had a community, a community is my biggest factor in choosing a tcg to play
I dig the NSR music in the background!
the centering on these cards are something else lol
Do you see that Mark Poole did one of the arts? So cool to me ( Mechad Frigate )
seeing mark poole art was a treat
Really stoked to see if the puzzle pieces are in the booster packs. I collect obscure trading card puzzles and have never seen these!
R.i.p eye sight what am i trying to read if i try to pause.
Those cards are incredibly ugly. Not the art, the cards themselves. Christ.
Yeah the boarder textures a really bizzare.
But I still have nostalgia for it.
I like how the frigate at the end was just mirrored art with more pink "lasers"?
for a new card game is it wise to make a starter deck comprised of cards from the first booster box if they come out simultaneously? I want to know because this seems to be the case for starter decks in popular games the 90s-early 2000s and MTG still does this (and also im making a card game of my own).
It saves development time. If the first set has distinct strategies, then the starter can be a sample of what you are suggesting.
Yes
The reminder card has the sequence of events in a turn, guess that’s a silver lining...?
11:38 reminds me a lot of the cardassian ships from star trek
Khodok.... STOP READING MY EBAY HISTORY! I was legit looking at picking up some boxes of these a couple months ago.
I'd like to know how to actually PLAY these weird old games...
jesus, that text visibility... :,,D
Well I mean _obviously_ it was weaker if it lacked a Distortion Cannon. That's just Space 101, everyone knows that. Geeze card, no need to condescend to me.
Commenting before I've watched it; I wonder how this goes considering the return of the Dear God Faic. Update: Kill confirmed. Also, hell yeah bro, I'd buy a grab bag of misfit card games, doitup.
Didn't get a good look at the card backs 😢
U should do a video on runeterra
:52 What game is that Valley Troll from?
Find out in the next video.
@@Kohdok Ohoho! Clever clever Kohdok!
Where did you learn to timestamp?
@@crimson90 I timestamp moments less than one minute into a video so rarely that I sometimes forget you need to add a 0 before the :.
For someone who hates vanguard and constantly gives it hate you really like using a mat from the game dont you?
Think you was a bit unfair comparing modern Magic cards readability to these. Magic wasn't much better in 1994/1995 with textbox colors. You also comes across as not knowing the backstory of the games universe.
"boring like 2001" *eyeroll*
i had this game, my mom traded my cards for cigarettes
😮 that's wild that someone would try to buy cards with cigarettes.
@@ryanlanier2543 no the game sucked so my mom traded my cards for a couple cartons of cigarettes