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  1. By Flipcommons Catalog

    Theme read off the game's name and subject.

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  2. By Flipcommons AI Descriptions (MachineModel)
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    *The Best Card King* is [[manufacturer:rmg]]'s take on [[manufacturer:gottlieb]]'s 1971 *[[model:card-king]]* — itself an export edition of Gottlieb's *[[model:pop-a-card]]* for the Italian market — a [[theme:cards]]-themed single-player table built on banks of [[gameplay-feature:drop-targets]] that took 100 lire a play.[1] On the copies R.M.G. sold under its own name, the firm's mark is printed on the lower playfield.[2] The game also went out under a "The Best" badge — a label with a curious origin in the Italian trade, where print shops that supplied backglasses to game makers began selling them straight to arcade operators, lettering "The Best" where the manufacturer's name would otherwise sit.[3] Under that badge it belonged to R.M.G.'s Skill Game line, alongside *[[model:the-best-wizard]]*, a rebuild of Gottlieb's *[[model:wizard]]*.[4]
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    Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #445
    Players: 1 [...] 100 lire for 1 play, 2 x 100 lire for 2 plays. Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), 5-bank drop targets (1), 4-bank drop targets (2), [...] This is a version of Gottlieb's 1972 'Pop-A-Card' made for export to Italy.
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    Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #5214
    A copy of Gottlieb's 1971 'Card King', its lower playfield indicates R.M.G. is the manufacturer.
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    Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #6836
    Printing companies in Italy that made backglasses for manufacturers of games such as Skilgame's Galaxie would also sell some of the glasses directly to operators, bypassing the pinball manufacturer, and for these glasses they were known to add the words "The Best" as part of the name
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    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/skill-game-the-best
    The Best Card King [...] The Best Wizard – em – 1p [...] (inspired from Gottlieb's "Wizard")
  3. By Flipcommons Catalog

    Classified a copy of Gottlieb's "Card King" on the exact-name match; tilt.it lists the machine but does not use the word "copy".

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    Card King (Gottlieb 1971)
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    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/skill-game-the-best
    Card King
  4. By Flipcommons Catalog

    tilt.it gives no year; lineage per the source line: 'The Best'-branded version of Card King - a copy of Gottlieb's 1971 'Card King' (ipdb 445). Sibling catalog copies exist: RMG's card-king-2 (ipdb 5214) and Emmepi's card-king-3 (6423). Per IPDB 6836's Notes, Italian backglass printers added 'The Best' to glasses sold directly to operators, bypassing the manufacturer. Maker: Skillgame d.b.a. Renato Montanari Giochi (catalog CE skillgame-dba-renato-montanari-giochi), matching the catalog's other the-best-* entries..

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    The Best Card King
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    The Best Card King
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    The Best Card King