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8-Bit Commandos

256 DIGITS OF POWER! 8-Bit Commandos, shuffle now!

Although the fad has died down in recent years, in their heyday, 8-Bit Commands were THE collectable sensation of choice. Although they came as packs of 4 cards plus a stick of bubblegum, the cards themselves had fabulous holographic artwork that would come to life when cards were joined side by side with a brief two-way interaction.

For example, putting Captain Muscular next to The Abacus would result in the following:

CM: (posing and flexing his muscles) Count these muscles, man! Truly you see my power!
AB: I have billions of neurons in my mind that can fire faster than you can squeeze a fist.

Truly amazing dialogue.

Since there were 256 characters in all, that meant a full 256^2 possible interactions, or 65536 total. A bonus set of 256 'Alternate Universe' cards were released when popularity started to wane, which brought things up to 16777216 possible interactions,

Only the insane would try to collect 'em all and see all, which is only fitting since it takes a certain amount of insanity to indulge in collectables.

The 8-Bit Commandos, sorted by the Master Card Grid Codes are:

1 Captain Muscular The Abacus Goth Grrl Treehugger
2 XZ-78 Rattlemaster Garbage Man Video Whacko
3 Lost Boy Bishounen Mr. Fuzzy Bloodmaster
4 Redhawk Greenhawk Bluehawk Paisleyhawk
5 Purity Chastity Honeypot The Mayor Gaia
6 Joe Sixpack Lentil Crimson Mask Sailor Blargh
7 Z.I.K. Tori Anita Mann Ukraine Ulga
8 Super Nippon Ultimo Aqua The Briefcase Matrix T'Gunn
9 Ordinary Guy Scrounge Scourge Scour
10 Goodwill Nostalgia Man I'Faith Yorick
11 Ooki Panooki Number Two Depth Charge Captain Obvious
12 Damien 666 Default Font Smirnov Sam I Am
13 Dark Princess Bongimous Right Angle Acute Angle
14 Alex Griffin Pixie Splendid Ruby Eyes Inversed
15 Slimguy Phat Mr. Latex Sir Hugs-a-lot Johnny Rotten
16 Blind Master Cosmo Blow Me Mixmaster
17 Android Pi Perry Pervo Silencer Hillary Rosen
18 Soul Drainer Yumiko Kuriko Akiko
19 D3THL0RD The Snark The Bowler The Cape
20 Double Vision Pushpin Neverman Murdoc

...along with many, many others.