In the history of the game's ace cards, the first banned card list was limited to only 3 cards, namely "Lightning Strike", "Black Hole", and our protagonist today, "Falling Hole". And from this incident of the "falling hole" restriction, we can also glimpse a little bit of how simple and green the environment was in the early days of the game Ace Card Game.
Adhering to the fine tradition of the old card people who don't talk much, the effect description of "Falling Cave" is only 1 sentence like "lightning strike" and "black hole", that is, to pit down monsters with an attack power of more than 1000 summoned by the other party. Players who have played "Chaos Power in the City" may be able to understand why this card was banned, in the era of the Axe King confrontation, this "Falling Cave" can pit the "Blue-Eyed White Dragon" that you spent 2 sacrifices to summon, and then instantly reverse the whole situation.
This effect of "Falling Hole" later derived cards with similar effects such as "Falling Hole" and "Sticky Falling Hole", and unified into the card type as the usual trap. After the "Worm Demon" series was launched, "Falling Cave" became a field in the game ace card, which brought together a large number of "Falling Cave" members, and this "Falling Cave" is the ancestor of all the "Falling Caves" in the Game King, that is, the original 1 "Falling Cave".
"Falling Holes" and "Lightning Strikes" and "Black Holes" were banned on August 26, 1998. The game king we are now in contact with, OCG, originated from the launch of K Society in March 1999. So what happened to this 1998 banned card watch? In fact, the manga of "Game King" began to be serialized in 1996, and in 1998, the consortium B "Bandai" bought the copyright to "Game King" and made an anime based on the plot of the first 59 episodes of the manga, which is what we often call "Asahi Version of Game King".
Although the Asahi Version of Game King and the later K Society's Game King: Dueling Monsters do not have much to do with the plot, the main characters in the Asahi Version of Game King, as well as the most popular "Monster Card" game, are the basis for the birth of Game King: Dueling Monsters. Before K took over the IP of "Game King", consortium B published 3 issues with a total of 120 game trump cards in addition to producing animation, which is what we now call "Bandai version of game ace cards".
Unlike the OCG cards currently launched by KSha, the card design of the "Bandai Edition Game Ace Card" completely follows the style in the manga. The main feature is that the monster's level is centered between the card name and the card chart. The monster's attack and defense are located in the lower right corner of the deck, and the background is two shaded rectangular boxes. The Monster effect occupies a box in the lower left corner. And the Monster Effect Box and the Attack Guard Box maintain the same horizontal line.
After consortium B launched the card, naturally there was a competition, and the discovery of the three cards of "lightning strike", "black hole" and "falling hole" in the game would make the game process very disharmonious, so on August 26, 1998, these three cards were designated as restricted cards, and only 1 card could be placed in each card group, in order to improve the game environment at that time and increase the fun of the game. Later, at the end of 1998, Consortium B lost the copyright of the game king, and instead began to be taken over by K Society. At first, K Society did not pay much attention to the role of the forbidden card watch, but when it held the competition, it also realized the importance of the forbidden card watch. So in April 2000, K Society launched the first forbidden card table in the new era, in which "lightning strike" and "black hole" are still listed, "falling hole" is missing, and it has never appeared in the forbidden card table or that side, which has become a legend in the history of the game king forbidden card table.