Golden, better known for adding a range of colouring, activity and story books to the Gobots range also produced an oversized, colourful card game.
Players each selects one of four Character Identification Cards (that show Cop-Tur, Cy-Kill, Leader-1 or Royal-T) and that becomes their character. Players then begin drawing face down cards from a deck in the hope of drawing a card with an image or images matching their character. If successful the card is placed in front of them face down in a neat row. If unsuccessful, the card isn't shown to other players and placed face down in a discard pile. Payers are not obligated to keep cards drawn showing their character and may also discard these to add an element of strategy. This is because players may draw cards from the fresh deck or from the discard pile with the chance you may scuttle another player's draw. The winner is the first player to amass ten images of their character not including the Character Identification Card.
The game element enters in the form of four ZAP Cards randomly shuffled into the deck. When a player draws a ZAP Card they must play it that turn. The player places the ZAP Card over the top of another player's row of cards with the intention to cover (ZAP) as many of the images of that player's character and in doing so removes them from their character image count. This also makes it worth being mindful how you place your cards in front of you to minimise potential ZAPPED losses.
Play cards may have 1 of one character and three of another or two of one and two of another.
Golden also released Giant Card Games for other popular titles such as Masters of the Universe, Defenders of the Earth, Mr. T, however the type of games were different.
Region Codes Used: US United States / CA Canada - Location codes only shown where items were known to be released. This list is accurate yet likely to be incomplete.
Gobots US/CA Golden 1985
40 Cards Total: 32 Play Cards,
4 Character Identification Cards and 4 ZAP Cards.
CREDIT: Example kindly supplied by Screwhead.
