Tomba Phone Card

Two types of Tomba! phone cards in plastic wrap.

A series of green pay phones that phone cards can be used on.

Several officially licensed phone cards were released in Japan to promote the first game.

Description

Phone cards are prepaid cards that can be used to make calls at public landline phones. At the time Tomba was first released, mobile phone use was not yet widespread and landlines were the primary means of communication.

Phone cards are credit card sized (85.60×53.98 mm) with rounded corners and two rounded indents on one side to guide proper insertion.

Several design variants are known to exist, featuring:

• Tomba and various other characters
• Seven evil pigs in front of a pig snout
• Tokyo Q Channel Paradise song, featuring Yasutaka Taga's clay artwork
• Tomba and an evil pig and the Playstation Magazine logo

Images

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  Scanned card featuring Tomba characters

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  Phone card containing the PlayStation Magazine logo

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  Phone cards from an auction

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  Tokyo Q Channel Paradise song variant

External links

• Auctions of the Q Channel and Playstation Magazine cards on ZenMarket
• Auctions of the Tomba characters collage and Evil Pigs cards on Yahoo! Auctions; also [1]
• Auction of two cards on Buyee; also [1], [2]