Is "Magic Arcade Finish" like "Magic Finish" or is it better? It seems to be a new Finish made by the USPCC.
I'm sure it's just Magic Finish. It's been sold under quite a few names by now. You don't honestly think that USPC would name a finish after a game arcade, do you?
Can you just name the finish whatever you would like with them? Do they regulate that at all?
You do understand that when you say "finish" you're talking about the card's TEXTURE and not its COATING? For years, ever since the conversion from cloth rollers to steel rollers, the only true finishes are "embossed" and "smooth" - the rest is just trademarks and names carried over from the days when there were quantifiable differences in finish. The term "Magic Finish" itself is a misnomer, describing the coating and not the texture of the card. When Ellusionist was testing it for USPC, the code name for it was Performance Coating, a name that's more apt to what the product actually is and one that Ellusionist opted to keep instead of using Magic Finish. If I were a spectator who knew little about cards other than how to play with them and I saw a magician pull out a deck from a box that says "Magic Finish" on it, I'm going to automatically think "That's a magic deck! Trick deck, trick deck! WITCH!" and so on...
I feel like I have to explain this to someone every several months or so. I should just make a new topic on it for The Source.
No, finish names are NOT regulated by anyone. The coatings themselves are, only in so far as they are chemicals and potentially hazardous when used improperly, so they're monitored by OSHA - the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the US - to insure USPC's employees don't get sick, injured or poisoned.
One magician produced a USPC deck advertised as having "Apocalytic Finish". No one believes for a moment that USPC created this whole new "finish" (again, just the texture, not really the coating) for this guy's deck.
As a deck producer, when you approach USPC, they'll say "Embossed or smooth?" Magic Finish coating has been made the default for custom decks - if you want the standard coating used on USPC's standard-issue decks, you have to request it like it was a special order. As far as what you want to name it - pretty much whatever you want, with the only possible exceptions being that you can't name a Bicycle deck as having Linoid Finish or Cambric Finish - no brand crossing for unique trademark names they own.
Here's a number of the known names for "embossed" finishes - they're all the same:
Air Cushion Finish
Cambric Finish
Linoid Finish
Linen Finish
High Finish
Premium Finish
Magic Finish (not really a finish)
Apocalyptic Finish
Plastic Coated (not really a finish, but it's on Arrco tuck boxes)
...and I'm sure there's more.
Smooth finishes are known as:
Smooth (duh)
Ivory
Magic Finish (yep, it's been used on smooth decks - and again, not a real finish, just a coating)
...and maybe a few more - it's not as common as embossed decks are.
BTW: have you ever seen someone complain about how crappy a deck is because it's Plastic Coated? They have no idea what they're talking about - ALL modern coatings are some form of plastic! Even Magic Finish is a plastic coating. They last longer than the old varnishes.
OK, rant over, moving on...
I liked their other, newer ideas better. They did this with the 2600 series decks, pretty much. I think they're hoping lightning will strike twice in the same place with this one.
I think their space invader ideas were also used in their 8-bit Traditional 2600 decks. I just wonder how many times can you rinse and repeat, but i guess as long as it is working for them, they have no reason to stop.
Nope. Just as the Atari 2600 had its games and graphics, the 5200 was the next step up - it just didn't sell as well because it was released in the early stages of the collapse of the videogame market of the 1980s. The games should look better than this deck portrays them.
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