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| Multi World 1993 Certification card |
From July 28 to August 15 of 1993 Shonen Jump organized a big event called the Jump Multi World in Tokyo at the Tokyo Dome. This event celebrated the 25th anniversary of the legendary publishing company.
For additional information on the event please read the introduction to the 25th Anniversary Jump Multi World cards here.
The
event had an area called the "Jump Game World", where attendees could
gather information on the latest games, demo plays, the chance to
experience the latest games before anyone else, and the chance to
participate in a tournament competition!
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| The Jump Game World area of The Jump Multi World event |
The latest game at the
time was the Famicom card battle RPG game called Dragon Ball Z Gaiden:
Saiya-jin Zetsumetsu Keikaku which was coming out during the course of
the event (August 6), so that game must have been heavily promoted.
This card introduced here was the reward for participating in a knockout game tournament. All participants received this card (whether they won or lost). My understanding is that the tournament was either the newly released "Saiya-jin Zetsumetsu Keikaku" in the tournament mode (up to 6 players), or the Super Famicom "Super Butouden" (released 4 months earlier) fighting game style tournament 1 vs 1 at a time.
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| Multi World 1993 Certification card back |
The back of the card reads:
"We
certify that you have participated in the special project "Jump Multi
World" for the 25th year since founding, and participated in the Bandai
Event Stage."
Similarly to the Tenkaichi Shikenkai Gold Certification card released earlier that year, this too is not technically a Carddass card. Although both are by Bandai, neither is mentioned in the Daizenshuu Carddass Perfect File books. However respected sources such as KaitoriCollect, and Mandarake, among others, classify these two cards as Carddass cards, and so many collectors have come to collect them and consider them as Carddass cards anyway.
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| Multi World 1993 Certification card |
The
front of the card features Super Saiyajin Son Gohan with a crystal type
prism pattern (or broken glass prism pattern) dashing towards the
viewer. The illustration is colored by Toriyama sensei. There is mention
of "OFFICIAL CARD" written all in caps in the upper left, as well as a
Bandai logo in the lower right, two design traits it shares with the
Tenkaichi Shikenkai Gold Certification card. Both cards also are in the
same format and dimensions (slightly horizontally narrower).
I absolutely love this card. The prism effect is stunning and the history behind it is pretty cool too! Unfortunately it's incredibly rare. I've seen some French sites list it as being limited to 500 copies, I think there are likely more than that, maybe twice that number, but no one knows for sure. Still it's very rare, and highly sought after!
