Japanese Topps MLB Set

[Yankeeswin]

I love oddball sets, in particular ones from other countries. Found out about this one from Japan this year

http://www.sega-cardgen.com/taikai_info.html

Flip around the pages, looks like it's a pretty comprehensive set, I've seen Jeter, Sabathia, Cano, Pujols, and many others. Supposedly there are 408 different. They were made for a Japanese arcade game- apparently you put together a lineup and play it in the arcade.
This Beckett thread talks about them
http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1510423-page-3.html

http://auctions.search.yahoo.co.jp/...=&aq=-1&oq=&ei=UTF-8&slider=0&tab_ex=commerce

Would love to find these in the US!

 

[DaClyde]

I got the main 2012 408-card checklist added to the SCF Inventory Manager, as well as the 2010 Rare (64-card) set. The 2010 main set, both 2011 sets and the 60-card 2012 rare sets will be added as soon as I can finish filling out the checklists. Also adding the checklists to TradingCardDB and Zistle.

I saw some Japanese site, maybe a Rakuten auction, that had a full arcade machine box of these cards for sale. It wasn't cheap. Just kills me that the arcade in the US is basically dead, while in Japan, an MLB arcade game can succeed well enough to warrent three years worth of revisions.

 

[Yankeeswin]

I saw your blog linked on some of the threads. I enjoy your blog a lot.


Are the cards available from the machines or are they available somewhere else?
I didn't find any boxes for sale, saw a few singles on Yahoo Japan (apparently Yahoo auctions is still viable in Japan), but not much elsewhere. Amazing such a large set, made by Topps, is unknown here.

 

[DaClyde]

The intent is that the cards are only available from the machines. I'm guessing you pretty much get a card for every time you play the game. Inevitably, someone buys a case off an arcade owner and cards slip into the secondary market without having passed through the arcade machines.

There are several videos on YouTube of the game being played.

In addition to Yahoo Auctions (I wish they had never closed in the US, they're still one of the biggest auction sites in Japan), Rakuten also has several of the cards listed:

http://search.rakuten.co.jp/search/mall/sega+card+gen/-/

And I saw a couple other individual sellers while I was trying to compile the checklists. I forget where I saw the unopened box, but I think it may have been a completed listing.

 

[Yankeeswin]

The intent is that the cards are only available from the machines. I'm guessing you pretty much get a card for every time you play the game. Inevitably, someone buys a case off an arcade owner and cards slip into the secondary market without having passed through the arcade machines.

There are several videos on YouTube of the game being played.

In addition to Yahoo Auctions (I wish they had never closed in the US, they're still one of the biggest auction sites in Japan), Rakuten also has several of the cards listed:

http://search.rakuten.co.jp/search/mall/sega+card+gen/-/

And I saw a couple other individual sellers while I was trying to compile the checklists. I forget where I saw the unopened box, but I think it may have been a completed listing.

Looks like quite a challenge.