2017 Raw Thrills Injustice Gods Among Us Series 1 Gaming Forum

Just wanted to get the consensus of the group.  I recently added the Series 2 checklist to the site and listed it under non-sport video games as these cards are dispensed from the arcade cabinet and can be used to with the game.  This set is currently listed in Gaming.  My thinking is that gaming sets are more for table top games like pokemon and magic the gathering.  

Thoughts?

I agree with you.  These don't appear to be a card game.

Arcade card games have been around in Japan for a long time, but just starting to hit in the US...

I feelbthey should be under gaming, as some have tabletop and arcade game play rules.  For the arcade game, the arcade screen actually has a scanner that you scan the card into you "deck", and you win more cards. Some of these games you can buy decks separate, and others you can only get cards by winning them in game and the arcade dispenses them...

I know some gamers don't consider these CCG/TCG's, and in Japan "Arcade Game Cards" are their own completely separate catagory.  I think for now, here, they should be added to gaming.  Just as Top Trumps is in gaming, even though its not a CCG/TCG/OCG.

I own some and personal used them at Dave and Buster.  (I'll have to load them)

But you have to interact with them, use them to battle other people, collect them to power up and win....Gaming.

IMO

The back of this card:

https://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/170810/cid/10957960/2017-Dave-and-Buster's-Injustice:-Arcade-11-Solomon-Grundy?PageIndex=1

Shows what appears to be gaming-type stats. Gaming looks to be correct for this.

Cool looking set. I would agree with gaming. 

https://arcadeheroes.com/2017/10/16/dave-busters-launches-injustice-arcade-with-exclusive-cabinet/

I would be careful in saying that every card with gaming-type-stats is a game card though. Lots of soccer cards look like game cards...also lots on non-gaming Pokemon have stats on them but are not part of the OCG or TCG.

Maybe a definition should be included in the FAQs to define what a gaming card is? Something like this from wikipedia maybe,

"The basic definition requires the game to resemble trading cards in shape and function, be mass-produced for trading and/or collectibility, and have rules for strategic gameplay."

To avoid things like "Old Maid" and other games whose cards are sold as a complete set (like the picture below), maybe another line like ".... a card game in which the player uses his own deck with cards primarily sold in random assortments. If all cards in the game can be acquired in a single purchase it is not a CCG/TCG".