Game “Trading Card Shop Simulator”: Deodorant for the nerds

As a teenager, I never left the house without a precision scale. I wasn't interested in weed, I wanted Pokémon cards.

They are available randomly mixed in small packs, so-called booster packs, for a few euros. The scales were supposed to help so that my friends and I didn't waste our pocket money on worthless cards: booster packs that contained a rare holographic card were supposedly a few milligrams heavier.

And yes, we even drew a few rare cards as a result, but were then banned from the shops. In the “Trading Card Shop Simulator” (“TCSS”) I now turn the tables.

“Trading Card Shop Simulator”, PC, Playstation, Xbox and Switch

In the game, I fill a shop with tasteless tables, chairs and display cases, shelves display the hot goods: booster packs. For licensing reasons, they are printed with fictional monsters in the game. But that doesn't matter because fans have already developed programs that I can use to convert them into Pokémon cards.

I attract male customers to my shop with special offers and then sell them overpriced cards. Deodorants get rid of the smell of sweat from the nerds I now have on the hook.

Unfortunately, I broke the most important dealer rule and grabbed my own goods. I was actually supposed to sell the booster packs to finance the business. Instead, I opened all the packages and sold rare items to other collectors.

It's also worth it in real life, the fire-breathing dragon Charizard, for example, is worth more than 138,000 euros on Ebay. The “TCSS” is great because it celebrates that moment of opening the package, satisfies my collecting instinct and saves me a lot of money. I wonder if there will be a precision scale in the game soon. So that no one takes away my rare cards, a stay-at-home order sounds like a very good idea.