A SPORTING CHANCE

In the same vein as the comic book games, Donruss has released
two sports games with quality photographs that are sure to get a
lot of interest outside of the gaming community.

Red Zone is a football game that will attract the football fans
on a regional basis because it does something no other cards did
as trading card sets. Since you need players in all positions to put
together a complete football team, they had to make cards of
players who may not be prominent enough to make it into actual
football card sets (there's 32 teams, 52 people on each roster,
which is...um...more cards than a normal trading card set fea-
tures, so many players get left out). For fans of specific teams, this
is amazing. In San Diego, nobody's seen a card featuring offensive
tackle Harry Swayne before, so Charger fans will eat it up. Swayne

could be a $2 card there. Everywhere else it's bird-cage liner, but
that's what regional cards are all about. Tom Beer, who's he? Few
will care outside of Detroit, but the Lions fans will seek this single
out. This is a strange opposite to what we're used to in the CCG
world, since these cards, that aren't necessarily the best cards to
play with, will be sought after.

Top of the Order, Donruss' baseball game, has a special fea-
ture that will generate quick interest. Donruss has really moved
fast. Trading ended at the beginning of September, and here we
are with baseball cards featuring photos of the players on the cor-
rect teams almost immediately. That beats out any other baseball
card set. Bobby Bonilla was traded to the Orioles, and here he is
in proper uniform and everything. People like Bret Saberhagen
were traded on the deadline, and here he is on the Colorado Rock-
ies. This should attract attention until other baseball trading card
sets come out.