Here’s the results of my scanning and collecting of Donkey Kong Card Game assets from various sources. Please enjoy it. All you have to do is click this link and download it:
-Pictures of as many cards as I could find, with varying quality, separated by card type. If you want to read the text on the smaller ones more clearly, use the official website as a resource. These are gleaned from Man-Frog’s scans, my scans, pictures of the official guidebook from an eBay auction, pictures intended for demonstration in the starter set manual, and a few Internet sources.
-Some key art taken from the official website
-A summary flowchart to aid in playing the game, taken from the official website (in Japanese)
-A flyer advertising the card game
-A scan of the box for the 60-card starter set
-A scan of the manual included in the starter set which teaches you to play the game (in Japanese)
-Pictures of some other Donkey Kong-related cards that have been made
Links:
Web archive of the official Japanese website, with card lists for all sets (including expanded rules text), tutorial and reference document for playing the game, release information, and some card images.
DKC Atlas thread discussing this and other Donkey Kong card games, with links to other DKCG errata such as the IGN announcement article and a Japanese Donkey Kong Land III commercial that included bonus cards.
Tangentially related: scans of the two volumes of Corocoro’s manga series based on the animated series, which this card game is also based on. Some special cards have been included in certain issues of Corocoro magazine (PP001, SP001, SP002).
EDIT: I finally did what I had been intending, and converted my personal spreadsheet for tracking card image status to Google Docs. Here you can see all the cards that exist and whether or not an image of them has been archived.
EDIT2: Thanks to a tipoff from the anonymous N.A., I’ve found a few more sources and managed to fill out the image archive a lot more; now ALL but one are accounted for and present in the collection, and many low-quality images have been replaced with better ones. The scans and images may not be perfect in all cases but it’s now much more complete. The spreadsheet has also been updated to reflect this. In addition, I added more supplementary images to the “Misc” folder, such as images of packaging and promo material.
So I finally did what I had been intending, and converted my personal spreadsheet for tracking Donkey Kong Card Game card image status to Google Docs. Here you can see all the cards that exist and whether or not an image of them has been archived. I’ve updated my DKCG megapost to reflect this.
There are not one, but two sets of characters created to teach you how to play the Donkey Kong Card Game. The starter set’s manual mainly consists of a little story of the three characters on top playing through a game, teaching you the basics in the process. They’re your typical card game anime squirts; from left to right Takashi the generic protagonist, Kenji the generic rival, and Toshiyuki the generic Cool Guy hotdogger (yes he has playing cards tucked into the band of his weird goggles…ok so he’s slightly less generic maybe).
On the other hand, the official website has a series of pages where Takeshi the generic young boy and Hikaru the generic young girl are taught the fundamentals of this children’s card game by Sensei, the generic old man. Note that Takeshi is different from the previous Takashi.
None of these characters are a part of the Donkey Kong Universe.
Get the whole picture by downloading the Donkey Kong Card Game archive here.
Some of the weird and wonderful sound effects in the Donkey Kong Card Game. I’ve emphasised how the original set had a mirrored theme with Kongs and Kremlings performing similar actions against each other. You can see this design in this guide book for the game (scroll down to see more images of the pages). The exclamations are just funny though; “Final Punch” would of course make the sound FINAL when landed, why not? But I don’t think I’ll ever figure out what WASHER means.
Here’s the results of my scanning and collecting of Donkey Kong Card Game assets from various sources. Please enjoy it. All you have to do is click this link and download it:
-Pictures of as many cards as I could find, with varying quality, separated by card type. If you want to read the text on the smaller ones more clearly, use the official website as a resource. These are gleaned from Man-Frog’s scans, my scans, pictures of the official guidebook from an eBay auction, pictures intended for demonstration in the starter set manual, and a few Internet sources.
-Some key art taken from the official website
-A summary flowchart to aid in playing the game, taken from the official website (in Japanese)
-A flyer advertising the card game
-A scan of the box for the 60-card starter set
-A scan of the manual included in the starter set which teaches you to play the game (in Japanese)
-Pictures of some other Donkey Kong-related cards that have been made
Links:
Web archive of the official Japanese website, with card lists for all sets (including expanded rules text), tutorial and reference document for playing the game, release information, and some card images.
DKC Atlas thread discussing this and other Donkey Kong card games, with links to other DKCG errata such as the IGN announcement article and a Japanese Donkey Kong Land III commercial that included bonus cards.
Tangentially related: scans of the two volumes of Corocoro’s manga series based on the animated series, which this card game is also based on. Some special cards have been included in certain issues of Corocoro magazine (PP001, SP001, SP002).
EDIT: I finally did what I had been intending, and converted my personal spreadsheet for tracking card image status to Google Docs. Here you can see all the cards that exist and whether or not an image of them has been archived.
EDIT2: Thanks to a tipoff from the anonymous N.A., I’ve found a few more sources and managed to fill out the image archive a lot more; now ALL but one are accounted for and present in the collection, and many low-quality images have been replaced with better ones. The scans and images may not be perfect in all cases but it’s now much more complete. The spreadsheet has also been updated to reflect this. In addition, I added more supplementary images to the “Misc” folder, such as images of packaging and promo material.
EDIT3: Mediafire is taking down the archive, so please refer to the new Mega link instead.
EDIT4: Calcium has notified me that I neglected to include a scan of the alternate yellow card back in the archive! All character cards have a yellow outline on the back. Until I do a proper update, I’ve just put it here for now.
One of my previous posts contained a link to Man-Frog’s impressive collection of cards which he’d scanned. After checking my new set, I determined that I had 11 cards that weren’t in his set. Here’s the final 5. I hope you like seeing Krusha wrasslin’ with Eddie the Mean Old Yeti!
One of my previous posts contained a link to Man-Frog’s impressive collection of cards which he’d scanned. After checking my new set, I determined that I had 11 cards that weren’t in his set. Here’s the first 6 plus the cards’ back.
My favourite card so far. It’s an illustration with a pose modified from a DKC2 render but with the costume of the animated series’s Dixie. Or maybe I’m stretching with the pose thing… Still, the point is that the drawn style of these cards makes the animated series characters look good, much better than the show did anyway.
Wow, my brief post showing the box of the Donkey Kong card game got a lot of attention! Well, all of you interested, while I’m still working out how to present the cards, scanning the manual, and all that, I’ll give you some more information on it and some links.
According to the box itself, the initial run contained 252 cards, separated into character cards, action cards, and support cards. There’s a fully functional rules system for playing a card battle game with them. A summary of the rules can be found at the official website (in Japanese).
The cards themselves have unique art, although some that represent items reuse renders from the games. The first run is based on the Donkey Kong Country animated series (did you know the 3D character models were also used for a French-language variety show after the show ended?). There’s also cards based on DK64, which I believe came later, and at least one promo card for Kiddy Kong.
Before I post any more pictures of my set, check out these places for some pictures and information:
I will be scanning cards, but only ones that Man-Frog hasn’t already scanned so as not to do work that’s already done. I will also scan the manual and probably all 6 sides of the box. One day you’ll be able to print out a complete set of these cards and play with your friends!
Starter set for the Donkey Kong trading card game, which was mainly based on the animated series (but received a DK64-based expansion the following year). Thanks to my sister-in-law for finding this for me in Japan. Expect more pictures and scans to come.
