This pack of Top Trumps were released in 1992 by Waddingtons. There are 30 cards in the set. It is the third pack in a loosely linked set along with Dragons and Magic Beasts and Aliens and Space Warriors.
If you really wanted to, you could combine all three packs into one really massive top trumps pack (as long as you didn’t mind equating Intelligence with Magical Power). I assume if you did this the game would never ever end at any point.
The Aliens and Space Warriors top trumps set was released by Waddingtons in 1992. The set contains 30 cards, plus a title card with the rules on the back.
By the 90s, Top Trumps monster artwork had gone into serious decline from their Horror top trumps heydey. This pack of Aliens and Space Warriors was pretty uniformly disappointing. With the incredible Oblit Fet card, though, it was nice to see them keep their tradition of mild copyright infringement going, so it wasn’t all completely bad.
Also at some point between the early 80s and the early 90s, packs of top trumps went from having 32 cards down to having 30. If that terrifying rate of decline has continued, the poor children of today would only get 26 cards in a pack. It would hardly be worth it.
And I know that the Smet is supposed to basically be a Tribble or whatever, but he really reminds me of a Jib-Jib, possibly the best Fighting Fantasy monster of them all. A Jib-Jib gone all fat and pampered.
