Nintendo Game Pack (US)

Nintendo Game Pack (US) — from The American Wax-Pack Era in the Zelda Cards Gallery.

The first American Zelda card product — and not a Zelda set at all, but a six-game Nintendo set: 60 scratch-off game cards (ten each for Mario 1, Mario 2, Zelda, Zelda II, Punch-Out!! and Double Dragon) plus 33 "Top Secret Tips" sticker cards. Zelda holds 20 of the scratch-off slots and part of the sticker run. The scratch-offs are playable: scratch three swords to advance Link; three fireballs loses. Unscratched copies are the collectible state.

The sticker backs frequently mismatch the sticker art on the front — a documented quirk of the set: the tip printed on the back often belongs to a different moment than the picture.

A PSA 10 copy of sticker #32 is a documented sale of about $1,120 — graded money exists even in the sticker subset.

It is the only card product where Zelda shares a checklist with Double Dragon.

More from this set line: Nintendo Game Pack — Wax Display Box · Nintendo Game Pack — Link Wax Wrapper. The wider trading-card shelf, in the Library.

Shown here at its verified native size, 2117×1511, the largest honest copy the Library holds for this object.

This object's back is verified too: use the flip control on the image to see it.

The back of Zelda Screen 1 is its instruction panel — "HOW TO PLAY · The Legend of ZELDA, SCREEN 1 OF 10": find 3 arrows to advance, and "Remember... 3 Tektites and you lose!" This copy is unscratched, and the panel urges collecting all 60 scratch-off game cards.