OverPower is a collectible card game produced by Fleer Corporation originally featuring characters from Marvel Comics and later from DC Comics and Image Comics as well. The game was initially launched in August 1995 and is no longer in production. One of its problems was that the card backs of Marvel, DC and Image cards were different, requiring the use of opaque card sleeves if one player wanted to mix them. In the game, two players went head-to-head with teams of four heroes and villains. Unlike most other collectible card games of the mid-1990s, OverPower was very distinct strategically and structurally from The Gathering.

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Overpower was produced by Fleer from its beginnings in 1995 until October, 1997, when Fleer decided to drop the product. Fleer, a company with a solid baseball card product line, had many good connections with card production companies. Also, Fleer was a neutral party: it is unlikely that Marvel would have been able to broker a deal with DC comics to make DC overpower, but since Fleer was involved, it was possible for them. Despite its success, Fleer was streamlining its business and focusing only on its trading card products. In early 1998, Marvel Interactive became the sole producer and distributor of Overpower, taking it over from Fleer.

Marvel Interactive only produced only two sets, Image and X-Men, both of which were fraught with delays and printing difficulties. After X-Men, the Overpower product ended up in limbo. Eventually, Marvel decided to sell the exclusive right to produce a collectible card game based on Marvel characters to Wizards of the Coast. Though this may have been a wise move by Marvel, it was bad news for Overpower fans. Wizards of the Coast's CCG strategies were very tournament-oriented, and Overpower was not very attractive as a tournament game. With all the rare but useful promotional cards, the prospect of Overpower tournaments would be a lose/lose situation for the producer: either tournaments will be unequitable because of certain extremely hard-to-get cards, or, if those cards were reprinted, long-time collectors and fans would be alienated. In addition, Overpower was not well-designed for long-term production. There are game-balance issues involved in producing more and more specials for already-done characters, and virtually all popular characters were already produced. Several years later, Wizards of the Coast released the X-Men TCG. The game did not sell well, and ultimately the license ended up in the hands of Upperdeck. Currently, the VS System is one of the most popular card games on the market and has an extensive organized play professional circuit.

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taevans (Tom Evans) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:39:46 -0000
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KevinIMoss (Kevin Moss) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:19:52 -0000
#fosi09 Alec Ross State Dep. Speaking on using comms technology as tool for diplomacy. Empower rather than overpower.
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shinji_mamoru (Bruno Antonucci) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:29:50 -0000
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@Devindra Well let me ask you this, are you saying streaming will overpower physical or completely do away with?
mosesmonster (Moses Roberts) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:41:52 -0000
@Devindra Well let me ask you this, are you saying streaming will overpower physical or completely do away with?
@TracyME Gen Y is huge in population but cannot overpower the other two, especially when some are not of legal voting age yet.
monicaobrien (Monica O'Brien) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:14:46 -0000
@TracyME Gen Y is huge in population but cannot overpower the other two, especially when some are not of legal voting age yet.
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