Cartoon Cards

Similar to 1978's Marvel Comics Super Heroes Card Game, Cartoon Cards is another card game with a popular license from Milton Bradley. Released in 1979, this one features cartoon characters from Hanna-Barbera. The instructions printed on the inside of the cover state "This simple but suspenseful card game will keep children amused game after game. Players win or lose chips by matching their favorite cartoon characters." The game does include a lot of white plastic chips, as well as three copies each of ten cards with a white background (flipside is yellow with Yogi Bear), and one copy each of ten that have a blue background (flipside is red with Scooby-Doo) that act as the dealer's deck. There are two blank blue cards too, but they aren't used, so I don't know why they are even here.

Although it might appear to be a memory matching game, it isn't. Players lose chips when they match the card being dealt, and the dealer changes to another player each round with the goal being to have the most chips at the end of the game. My box cover is in good shape and shows it cost $3.79 at Caldor. However, the bottom of the box has some big tears in it. The cards are nice, though they aren't all cut correctly; you can see a white line on the top of some of the blue cards. While the character names are on the cards, I'll list them here: Quick Draw McGraw, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Yogi Bear, Jabberjaw, The Jetsons, Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo. Of course, The Jetsons is more than one character, as it shows the whole family in their flying car.