"Teks"
I wonder if people can still remember playing with "teks". I do. You know, the small pieces of cardboard where scenes from different Tagalog movies were drawn? Yep, those things. You play them by putting three pieces in your hands and flicking them. Combinations from the way the cards fall (either face up or face down) determine who wins.
So why am I talking about this? This was a topic of discussion during our trip to Batangas last Sunday.
At first, we played with the small "teks" as I mentioned above. However, when I was in highschool (in the early 90s), the small "teks" were replaced by bigger cards - fake copies of Marvel and DC trading cards that proliferated the streets; however, the playing the game remained the same. But as I grew older, I outgrew playing "teks" all together (and I just couldn't win at the game anyway). Instead, I focused on collecting these fake trading cards, which also served as my introduction to comic books. My youngest brother then inherited the task of not only playing the game, but buying the cards too. He was pretty good at the game anyway, almost always winning against his opponent. And me? I collected the series, checking for quality and building up our collection. At the end of this craze a couple of years later, we had managed to colect Marvel trading cards series 1, series 2, the X-men series, the Marvel superheroes series and the DC card series. And that's just for the trading cards. We also collected cards from the Japanese live action series (like the Power Rangers), especially the cards from the Ultraman series. What a collection, no? Me and my brothers were proud of this collection. The excess cards that we got were then thrown into a big bag and used in playing "teks". I think our excess cards numbed more than 2,000, which fit into an old school bag.
I still had that collection when my sister was born. Unfortunately, since the game wasn't "in" anymore, that meant that we had a couple of thousand cards lying around the house. She played with them, first with the excess cards, and then with the collection. In the span of 1 year, she managed to lose all of the cards we collected. ALL OF THEM. Sigh. Sayang talaga.
So why am I talking about this? This was a topic of discussion during our trip to Batangas last Sunday.
At first, we played with the small "teks" as I mentioned above. However, when I was in highschool (in the early 90s), the small "teks" were replaced by bigger cards - fake copies of Marvel and DC trading cards that proliferated the streets; however, the playing the game remained the same. But as I grew older, I outgrew playing "teks" all together (and I just couldn't win at the game anyway). Instead, I focused on collecting these fake trading cards, which also served as my introduction to comic books. My youngest brother then inherited the task of not only playing the game, but buying the cards too. He was pretty good at the game anyway, almost always winning against his opponent. And me? I collected the series, checking for quality and building up our collection. At the end of this craze a couple of years later, we had managed to colect Marvel trading cards series 1, series 2, the X-men series, the Marvel superheroes series and the DC card series. And that's just for the trading cards. We also collected cards from the Japanese live action series (like the Power Rangers), especially the cards from the Ultraman series. What a collection, no? Me and my brothers were proud of this collection. The excess cards that we got were then thrown into a big bag and used in playing "teks". I think our excess cards numbed more than 2,000, which fit into an old school bag.
I still had that collection when my sister was born. Unfortunately, since the game wasn't "in" anymore, that meant that we had a couple of thousand cards lying around the house. She played with them, first with the excess cards, and then with the collection. In the span of 1 year, she managed to lose all of the cards we collected. ALL OF THEM. Sigh. Sayang talaga.
posted by Marc dela Peña | 12:33 PM
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