Just the other day I stumbled across a box full of Ani-Mayhem cards in my garage. Back during the infamous CCG Boom ('94-'96), games like this were everywhere. In '97, most of the games would go out of print thanks to the collapse of many of the companies that made them. Ani-Mayhem, while not a bad game, fell victim to such a collapse. Card stores and hobby shops couldn't get rid of their stock to save their lives.
Long story short, I got a ton of packs for next to nothing, and I still have them all.
Ani-Mayhem, like I said, was really not a bad game. Comparatively speaking, it was aweful (there were many CCGs that also went out of print that were vastly better), but then again, it was still an easy to play CCG, which made it better then alot of non-CCG games.
The basic objective of the game was to use your characters to search locations for treasure, all the while avoiding the "Disasters" hidden at each location.
Again, the game was really not bad. It was very amusing, and if you were a fan of the animes covered by the game, it was fun to collect. The sad part about the company that printed Ani-Mayhem going belly-up was that the game was really just getting started. The Dragonball Z expansion, which was the first and only expansion, was actually pretty popular and gave the game a noticeable boost in popularity.
While I wouldn't recommend Ani-Mayhem for most people, it was still one of the higher points of the CCG Boom, and worth remembering. Cheers.
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