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[[Image:DSC01318.jpg|thumb|[[Yawning Squirtle]] playing a customized [[Rosechu]] card. In play-testing, it was concluded that although some of Chris's customs were insanely overpowered, others really sucked.]]
 
Throughout his life, [[Chris]] has wasted shitloads of [[monthly tugboat|your tax money]] on '''Tradable Card Games''' (TCG). To date, Chris plays five different ones: ''[[Pokémon]]'', ''UFS'' (''Ultimate Fighting System''), ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' TCG, and most recently, ''[[The Eye of Judgment]]''.
 
==List of TCGs Chris has played==
[[Image:104-GirlfriendAttract.jpg|thumb|If only life were more like ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''…]]
[[Image:CWCEOJ.jpg|thumb|Chris in ''[[The Eye of Judgment]]''.]]
 
===Pokémon TCG===
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The '''Pokémon TCG''' was first introduced in Japan in October [[1996]], then North America in December [[1998]]. It was initially published by Wizards of the Coast. Chris started getting into the Pokémon TCG in [[1999]], and made his own deck and custom Pokémon-cards. He also [[Inventions|invented]] a special "heavy-duty case" made from [[Lego]] blocks and held together with tape, to carry his card decks.
 
In [[Sonichu 1|''Sonichu'' #1]], Chris ran an ad proposing a Pokémon TCG expansion titled ''EX-CWC''. This ad firmly establishes Christian's custom trading cards as part of the Sonichu franchise. Also, it reaffirms Chris's [[Chris and his ego|rampant narcissism]], as he names the proposed expansion after himself (just like he names everything) instead of the [[Sonichu (comic)|''Sonichu'']] characters that would occupy the expansion.
 
===Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG===
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The '''Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG''' came out worldwide in [[2002]], and was developed and published by Konami. The earliest sources we have of Chris playing the game are from [[2004]], when he started making a bunch of custom cards. Chris met [[Megan Schroeder]] during a ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' match in the summer of [[2005]].
 
===Sailor Moon TCG===
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The '''Sailor Moon TCG''' was released in [[2000]] by Dart Flipcards Inc. We know Chris got into this game through Megan, who was a big fan of it, but he has never referenced to it very much outside of the emails. During the [[Julie|Julie Saga]], Chris had a bunch of ''Sailor Moon'' cards up on his website.
 
===The Eye of Judgment TCG===
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'''The Eye of Judgment''' is a TCG/videogame hybrid released in [[2007]] by [[Sony]]. Chris got into this game quite heavily, because it could be played online, and [[autism|no social interaction]] was needed. This game came into quite a few videos, and Chris probably [[Apology to Game & Hobby Place|apologized]] to [[the GAMe PLACe]] because of it.
 
===UFS (Ultimate Fighting System) TCG===
'''Universal Fighting System TCG''' is a collectible card game originally designed by Sabertooth Games, it was first released in [[2006]], and involves popular fighting video game characters. According to [[Mimms]], Chris usually played with female characters, like Cassandra from ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' or [[CWC Fighter|Chun-Li]] from ''Street Fighter''.
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==List of places where Chris has played TCGs==
[[Image:Sonichupunch.jpg|thumb|Chris, holding it out like he's supposed to at [[The GAMe PLACe]].]]
 
===Books-A-Million===
Chris claims to have volunteered as an assistant Gym Leader at the Pokémon League at the Midlothian [[VA]] '''Books-A-Million''' between March [[1998]] and June [[2000]]. This is impossible, as the Pokémon trading card game wasn't released in North America until December 1998, and its official league wasn't founded until the following year. It is also unsure as to what extent Chris was actually "assistant Gym Leader," and whether or not he was just mucking about and behaving like a toddler. Chris would have stopped going here after his family moved 77 miles (125 km) back to [[Ruckersville]] in the summer of 2000.
 
In the May 2010 video [[I_Pimp_My_Ride.MOV|I Pimp My Ride]], as well as a number of other videos from 2010, Chris is seen wearing a shirt that reads "Pokémon League Books-A-Million Trainer", suggesting that at one point Chris did have some sort of staffing role in the store's organized Pokémon games. More important, it shows that Chris has hung on to this cheap memento of the experience for more than a decade, despite the fact that it is now far too small to wear and highlights his [[obesity]] to a disturbing degree.
 
===Toys "Я" Us===
Chris says he volunteered as assistant Gym Leader at the Pokémon League at the [[Charlottesville]] '''Toys "Я" Us''' between June [[2000]] and June [[2002]], after his move back to Ruckersville. Again, we don't really know if he actually had duties, or if he was just joining in with the children.
 
According to first-hand reports of his games at Toys "Я" Us, Chris used the fake cards he made in battles and tried to encourage others to do so by giving them out. Some of these cards are extremely broken or cheap. Chris was reportedly kicked out of the store for insisting that he be allowed to use them, even though they would be outright unfair to whoever played against him. The look upon a child's face as Chris lays down a [[Virgin with rage]] card would have been priceless.
 
===The GAMe PLACe===
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Chris claims to have volunteered as assistant Gym Leader at the Pokémon League at the Rochelle VA '''GAMe PLACe'''. He started coming here in June [[2002]], and stayed there until he got permabanned by the manager in August [[2008]]. [[Lucas]] has stated that he actually sometimes did do work here as a Gym Leader, although this was only very occasionally, when there were no better people around to do the job.
 
== Custom cards ==
[[Image:338-Flashbulb.jpg|thumb|It may look cool, but it's useless against [[Snorlax]]]]
 
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In addition to making custom trading cards (most notably ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' trading cards), Chris has produced tons of custom cards for most of the TCGs he as played. He proudly displays the Pokémon cards in [[The Wall of Originals]] (well, he'll likely proudly display them to anyone whom he manages to trap in the room, anyway), and put many (but not all) of the custom cards in the [[DVD]] slideshow. Most recently, he has made ''Eye of Judgment'' cards, as shown in his [[CWC Music Video Holding Out For a Hero|Holding Out For a Hero]] video.
 
In the [[Mimms_and_Lucas_Q%26A#Initial_post|Mimms and Lucas Q&A]], Mimms said that while Chris still kept his custom cards with the rest of his card collection and showed them off to other players at the GAMe PLACe, he had given up on trying to use them in competitive games.
 
==See also==
*[[The GAMe PLACe]]
*[[Video games]]
 
[[Category:Hobbies]]
[[Category:Things bought with taxpayer money]]

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