![]() Notably, a few of Hewitt’s credits are for collectable card games featuring other licensed properties – such as Babylon 5 and Aliens vs Predator – though Tomb Raider, released in 1999, seems to have been his first solo game design. With Lara Croft and Tomb Raider themed cards set to arrive in Magic: The Gathering via a Secret Lair drop – you can check out our MTG Tomb Raider card list for more details – I thought it was the perfect time to take a look at the original Tomb Raider Collectable Card Game (note that ‘Collectible’ is the spelling used on the box, however!).ĭesigned by David Hewitt – billed as the sole creator of the game, Hewitt was also co-designer on several other CCGs. So naturally, given that CCGs – collectable card games – were born in the 90s (and, much like Lara Croft and Tomb Raider itself, almost immediately exploding in popularity) it’s perhaps no surprise that she starred in one of her own. Their association with Lara Croft didn’t end there either – she also appeared in the music video for U2 song Elevation in 2001, which also tied into (and featured clips from) the Angelina Jolie movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In any case, you couldn’t even go to a U2 concert without spotting Tomb Raider’s acrobatic polygonal protagonist – she appeared on screen during performances on the band’s PopMart tour in 1997. Pac Man – but if we are specifying humans, it’s Toby ‘Kissy’ Masuyo in Namco’s forgotten arcade game, Baraduke, who takes that particular prize. That honour, if we’re including non-human characters, goes to Ms. ![]() Lara Croft, the armed and very acrobatic archaeologist, emerged as Girl Power took centre stage in pop culture (thanks, Spice Girls!) and became a near-immediate icon, praised as being one of the first strong, female video game protagonists – even though she was fashionably late to that particular party. Even if you weren’t a gamer in the 90s, it was impossible to avoid Lara Croft – the protagonist of video game series, Tomb Raider.ĭespite the close association with Sony and their PlayStation brand, the first Tomb Raider game to emerge (developed by Core Design and published by Eidos) was on the Sega Saturn in 1996, following on PlayStation and PC shortly afterwards.
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