This was the first Ultra set I ever saw...and it's still near the top of my favorites list, (my 4th favorite set of my first year) even though, now that I am older, I realize that MANY cards in this set were cropped way too closely. It's like Fleer had a mandate that no feet were to be shown under any circumstances, and if you could cut off knees and elbows, too, great! But I didn't pay attention that kind of stuff as a 12 year old, and the memories I built with the set overcome any of it's shortcomings.
Gold Medallion debuted this year, my second favorite Parallel concept behind only Refractors. Unfortunately they were in Series 1 only.

This set is very dark, but I love it anyway. These would have been the first UD cards I ever saw, and as some know, the only card I ever had but didn't any longer was from this set. It was a David Robinson Electric Court parallel that I traded the instant I got it in 1996...and regretted it instantly. I chased and hunted a replacement for that card for 22 years, until finally, in January of 2018, Jason German sent me a replacement. When I do my annual countdown of favorite new addition per month on Cardboard History, I know for sure it's going to be the card for January...and maybe the year.

Although I began collecting the NBA, and I was still very active collecting action figures at that time, I only have 9 of the SLUs from this year. Surprising.