Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Paige Burger, who is displayed on card number 3105, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection.   Paige is part of the Old School Gamer Magazine crew.   Daughter of the creator and publisher, Paige has made a huge impact on promoting and signing up gamers for the magazine.   She travels to many of the conferences and works the OSG booth and is always excited to meet new people and explain the positive reasons to join the Old School subscribers.    Chances are when you see the Old School Gamer booth at your event,  she will be there with all smiles.

Who is your favorite video game character and what makes that character special?

Henry (Hank) from FireWatch is One of my favorite characters. I’m not sure what exactly that makes him special, especially because I don’t even think of that game a lot but it might be that he is just a regular guy in his late 30s who has retreated from his messy life to work as a fire lookout in the Wyoming wilderness. I honestly like simple but complex characters like that.

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A collaboration project with Hagen's Alley Books, Walter Day's Gaming Superstars Volume One is a 100+ page book that will cover the entire first year of trading cards released in the series. The cards will be accompanied by beautiful imagery and stories told by people within the gaming community who were featured on the cards, as well as stories from Walter Day himself.

• 100+ Full Color Pages
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• All 200 cards listed, including variants and unprinted cards
• Historical Stories about Walter Day
• Beautiful Imagery throughout the Book

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Donald Hayes who is displayed on card number 17, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection.   Donald is a highly recognized retro game player who has held and holds many world records on classic games.  Some of his games he currently holds records on are Centipede, Dig Dug and Joust.  In 2005, Donald was named player of the year by Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard.  He has also been named player of the year numerous times at the arcade “Funspot” in New Hampshire.   Most recently, Donald participated in the Battle of the Arcades event and finished first overall individually and his team finished second out of the five arcades that were involved. 

What are your opinions about today’s generation of video games?  How do you compare them to older, classic games?

I’ve really not played much of recent video games and prefer to stick with the older classic games. The graphics today are obviously better, but it seems like a lot of modern games are so similar to each other in terms of game play. There seemed to be a lot more variety in the 80’s when new games were coming out.

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jon Klinkel, who is displayed on card number 66, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection.  Jon is also featured on cards 2916 for Galaga Forum and soon-to-be-released 2918 in a Score Wars group picture. Current Administrator of Galaga Forum, Jon is very passionate about Galaga. In 2010 Jon broke many Galaga World Records at that time. Jon is a true Retro Gamer as he has played on most of the systems created since the early 1980’s. He also plays PC games as well when he finds time.  Jon is currently on the committee with the International Video Game Hall of Fame. 

If you can design your own game, what would it be about and who would be the main character?

I've actually come up with several ideas for video games.  A very in-depth MMORPG that I wouldn't be able to describe in less than several pages, a persistent world based on the original Bard's Tale, a battle royale game, a game similar to Clash of Clans based on hillbillies - with appropriate units, gear and weaponry, sports simulators - among many other ideas I tend to have.