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GOLDENEYE
COLLECTABLE CARD GAME (Target)
The James Bond Collectable Card Game, also know as the 007 CCG, was not only trading cards but a card game. The cards were manufactured by Heartbreaker/ Target Games, a Swedish game maker located in Stockholm. The cards though where printed in Germany, to reduce the printing costs. It took me more then ten years to collect all 218 cards, yes 218. The cards are unnumbered but divided into four categories: Common Cards, Uncommon Cards, Rare Cards and Chase Cards. Within each category the cards are alphabetically ordered. Now one should think that the Chase Cards would be the hardest ones to get but none of this is true; the Rare Cards in this set are the toughest, really tough. The cards were available in Booster Packs containing 15 randomly chosen cards and also in Starter Packs containing 60 different cards and the game rules. The cards are beautifully manufactured each depicting a still from one of the James Bond movies, a short description of the still and also some necessary information to play the game. The card reverse was very simple but very Bondian, displaying the gun barrel in a blue or red colour. As far as I know, the game was available in six different languages, English, French, German, Italian, Swedish and Finnish. I have never seen a German card. The same uncommon card is shown here below in five different languages. Although the name of the game here is the “GoldenEye Collectable Card Game”, the stills printed on the cards are taken from the James Bond movies “Dr. No” until “GoldenEye”.
"Counter Display Box (Finnish Language)"
"Counter Display Box (English Language)" The counter display box is decorated with artwork from the new James Bond movie "GoldenEye", Pierce Brosnan and the two leading Bond Girls Natalya and Xenia. The text on the box is printed in four languages, the box right side had information telling you which version you where buying, English, German, French, Swedish, Finnish or Italian. Only available in Italy was a complete beginners set, containing an introduction booklet, a starter deck and some booster packs.
This “GoldenEye”
game card set contains several errors, following is a list of the
many mistakes or errors that I discovered during my research on this
card set. The Common Cards are the only ones without mistakes or errors,
at least not in the English version. The details are minor, but for
the die-hard collector these cards are a must have. Let's have a look
at the details: the card "Bar" was either
printed with the date "1985"
or "1989", the card
"Blown From Above" can be found with the
text "any Bond card in any other player's"
printed on the third line or "any Bond
card in any other player's Agency". The card "Baron
Samedi" can be found with the text "cemeteries.
If he" printed on the second line or "cemeteries.
If he is". The card "Dr. No"
can be found with or without the number
"5" printed in the green circle, the card "Bond
Theme Music" can be found with the text "Bond
gains EITHER +2PV, +2CV, or any one" printed on the
second line or "gains EITHER +2PV,
+2CV, or". The card "Doubly Prepared"
can be found with the text "Ability
icons, Attachments, and PV's and CV's" printed on
the second line or "Ability icons,
Attachments, and PV's", the card "Dr. No's Dragon Tank" was either printed with the date "1962" or "1965". The card "Jaws"
may be found with or without a little "red
dot" just left in the title bar, the card "Solitaire"
can be found with the text "BOND GIRL.
Tarot" printed on the second line or just "BOND
GIRL.". And at last, the only chase card "Pam
Bouvier" can be found with or without the text printed
inside the picture border in the centre of the card.
Because of all these errors, the “GoldenEye” Collectable Card Game total comes to 218 cards, unless that is if you know of others I’ve missed. As I said these misprints are in the English version, other versions may have the same, more or less. When a real die hard James Bond memorabilia collector tries to get all these cards together, you hope the firm printing them knows what they are doing and there’s no mistakes. Sadly this is one of the worst sets for errors and misprints and it turns the fun in collecting into a nightmare. To compile this set and to get to what I have now took me ten years. I hope it’s easier for you and I wish you “Good luck” in your hunting.
(Special thanks to Gianmatteo Tonci for providing the above pictures.) In May 2018 I got hold of a partial Italian card set, among those cards i discovered a never seen before card of "Dmitri Mishkin". That same year I got a mail from an Italian collector who explained the card I discovered. In Italy the collectors could send five empty booster packs to the company that produced the cards to obtain three new cards that were not distributed in booster packs. The cards are show here above. The Italian starterpack also contained a sixteen page booklet with lots of information on the card game. You can download the booklet here. "Booster & Starter Packs" Here below you can see booster packs in three different languages, English, French and Italian. The front is mainly the same, but on the reverse you can notice the different manufactures in three different countries.
"Booster Packs Front, English, French and Italian"
"Booster Packs Reverse, English, French and Italian" In May 2025, Robert Lukazyk brought to my attention that I didn't mention the existence of a poster with on the reverse the full checklist. To be honest, I knew about the poster because I have one, but forgot to mention this item. The pictures here below are from Robert.
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