National Safe Kids Campaign trading cards

This is a set of six cards released by the National Safe Kids Campaign, a national organization that deals with such public services as product recalls on children's products and encouraging kids to buckle up and wear bicycle helmets and the like - essentially, to encourage the existance of "safe kids", I suppose. So what are they doing releasing a set of Nintendo trading cards?

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The set consists of only these six cards, sold or distributed in packs of three. Given they're from the National Safe Kids Campaign I'd imagine these were meant to be distributed for free to kids in schools, nurse's offices, or whatnot. The art in these cards has all been seen before these cards' release in 1991; for example, the stair art is from the Super Mario Bros. 2 manual, and the two SMB3 graphics are from the FC version of the game.

A complete set only has six cards, and considering these things were bagged 24 packs to a bag it's not especially hard to find a complete set. It's worth it to be able to read Mario's diatribe against unsafe stairways!

Thx: Alan Davis

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