Japanese Photo Contest Promos Card List
Two 1999 contests gave away cards whose art is a photograph rather than an illustration, which is why collectors call them the Snap cards. The 64 Mario Stadium Best Photo Contest produced five, of which Articuno, Charmander, Koffing and Squirtle are priced here — and the CoroCoro Best Photo Contest produced Poliwag and Pikachu here. Chansey and Bulbasaur are listed by the price source but carry no price data, and Gyarados and Magikarp are not listed at all. Contest-only distribution, never sold in a shop. This page lists every card with its printings priced separately — 6 printing records — and every one opens its own record with the prices, the printing notes and where to buy.
Card List
Japanese Photo Contest Promos At a Glance
How many cards are in the Japanese Photo Contest Promos?
The set holds 6 cards, released 1999. This site tracks 6 printings of them (Photo Contest 6), each with its own record and price.
What printings does it have?
Contest prizes: no 1st Edition, no Unlimited run, no collector number. The price source keys the family by a snap- prefix and is inconsistent about naming the contest, so the titles are worth reading rather than trusting. Sources: folio.fyi's two photo-contest entries; price-source naming and scans.
What is the most valuable card in the set?
Snap Squirtle [64 Mario Stadium Best Photo] #7 at $314,150 raw, about $5,100 in PSA 10. One raw copy of every printing here totals $541,071.
How do these cards relate to the English printing?
No English version of these cards exists. These contests were Japan-only; there is no English equivalent, so these are the only printings of these cards that were ever made. They are one of just two Japanese releases of the era with no English counterpart at all.
How do I tell a Japanese Photo Contest Promos card apart from the English printing?
Turn it over, which is the quickest tell there is: this set predates July 2001, when Japanese cards carried the Pocket Monsters Card Game back — a design no English card ever had, against the blue Pokémon back. The back changed once, with Pokémon VS in July 2001, so the back alone dates a card to this era.
Either way, the symbol beside the number is the Japanese set's own, not the English set's.
Prices are PriceCharting sold comps read 2026-11-07 and are per printing. This set is not in TCGdex, and no structured fact source covers it, so rarity, type and illustrator are omitted rather than guessed. One raw copy of every printing on this page totals $541,071.