Talk:Mario Quiz Cards
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Gallery?[edit]
Can anybody make a gallery for the Mario Quiz Cards? --LTIan (talk) 02:24, 2 February 2017 (EST)
Source for extra cards[edit]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skZl5fLj7Og
This video has a lot of cards that are not in the article yet. --
16:19, October 6, 2021 (EDT)
Gary Fields worked on these cards[edit]
Gary Fields, a cartoonist and occasional comic book letterer known for his work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics (his Instagram is at https://www.instagram.com/garyfieldsstudios/?hl=en ) worked on these cards, and did the art for at least some of them. I bought a pack of them from him at a New York Comic Con a few years back. --John Pannozzi (talk) 03:29, December 11, 2024 (EST)
Scans of all 1792 Released Cards[edit]
Quick introduction, I'm a volunteer for The Luigi Archives, the effort to document every Mario Quiz Card. Almost a year ago I became intrigued with learning more about the Mario Quiz Cards, of which I had a lot from my childhood. I just finished my own collection of them a little over a month ago (I might be the first person to do so, it's hard to tell even now) and scanned every one of them to upload to the Internet Archive.
Internet Archive version here: https://archive.org/details/Mario-Quiz-Cards/
Single Zip File containing every scan sorted by category here: https://mega.nz/file/yV81SDCB#avWmScBVwja5Es6vgCRmR7kPslsOhBTGepMRdj_DxvE
The zip version uses the same exact files as I uploaded to the Internet Archive, the difference is the Archive has to rename the files for their system whereas the ones in the zip have easy to read labeling (Category # Front/Reverse). I'd also describe these as "mid quality". They're 300 dpi but use a low quality jpeg compression. Everything is readable but on images with a lot of dark colors the lack of contrast really sticks out. With having to scan nearly 3600 images, I had to opt for the fastest setting, so you may not want to replace existing scans already here if they're higher quality.
The reason I'm not just adding the images directly to the Mario Wiki at this time is there's so many of them I figured there might have to be some restructuring of the entry first to accommodate such a massive file dump. I'd suggest only hosting all the card FRONTS as I can confirm there is no Mario related imagery or even mentions of any kind on any of the card backs, which is also true for their Tintin counterparts, which I've also scanned. You might also consider giving every category its own subpage or a dedicated subpage gallery for all the card images since there's so many of them. The biggest category is Arts, Sports and Leisure with 176 cards (352 scans front and back), the smallest is Oceans & Seas with 60 cards (120 scans front and back). I'll leave it up to senior contributors to decide.
A few more pieces of useful information for reference:
The Luigi Archives' document for every known Mario card: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u4miyt58i6QwXDklJ6GMc5-1tZ6PS2W8K74m9JZO_cE/edit?gid=893345904#gid=893345904
My scans of the Tintin Fiches for reference: https://archive.org/details/fiches-tintin
I was able to confirm the Tintin Fiches did have 91 decks for 1820 fiches. Technically there might as many as 1824 fiches due to misprints and them replacing a small number of cards in second printings, but that's its own can of worms.
The Mario Cards also have 91 decks, same as the Tintin fiches. However, their versions of Deck 1 and 2 are missing 28 cards between them. Best we can tell, they picked out 12 cards from the first 40 Tintin fiches (even reusing the product codes, hence how we know they're from decks 1 and 2) to make the 12 card "starter deck" that was sent out free to potential customers. They seemingly didn't plan to create the cards they skipped over later, however another Luigi Archives contributor who made a spreadsheet noting the changes between the Tintin fiches and comparable Mario cards discovered at least two questions from decks 1 and 2 were recycled for cards in later sets.
It's also likely they were planning on making a 20 card starter deck as just in the manual and promotional material, there's seven questions visible that were never released. The manual even includes a full front and back scan of a card that never got included in any deck they sent out to customers as far as we know. My best guess is they went from 20 down to 12 to save on costs, as the "starter cards" were truly free and they'd save money not giving away as many of them. Maybe someone who worked at the company who made these has them in their attic or something, but it doesn't look like they ever sold these missing cards.
I can also fill in a fair amount of details on how these were sold and distributed. In tracking down all the cards for my own collection, I've ended up with a fair amount of invoices and variations of the initial promotional material, which I also have scans of.
J. Gray Dingler (talk) 13:45, August 21, 2026 (UTC)
