Score Entertainment was a

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design and manufacturing company based in

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. Their first card game was the Dragon Ball Z: Collectible Card Game in 2000. Score Entertainment was a member of the Donruss Playoff LP family of companies. Donruss Playoff LP was bought out in early 2009 by Panini America and Score Entertainment was closed down.

Trading cards and games

As with several other companies in the trading card and

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industries, Score Entertainment licensed popular

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for their games and trading cards. These are drawn from a variety of

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, and

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s. Their game properties included the following: * Bleach Trading Card Game *

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Collectible Card Game The ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer Collectible Card Game'' is an out-of-print trading card game based on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. It was released in December 2001 by Score Entertainment. As of January 2004, Score Entertainment no longer holds ...

Case Closed Trading Card Game ''Case Closed'', also known as , is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' since January 1994, with its c ...

* Dragon Ball GT Trading Card Game *

Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game ''Dragon Ball Z Trading Card Game'' (originally the ''Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game'' and the ''Dragon Ball GT Trading Card Game'') is an out-of-print trading card game based on the Dragon Ball series created by Akira Toriyama. The game was ...

* Dragon Ball Z Trading Card Game *

Dragon Booster Trading Card Game The Dragon Booster Trading Card Game is an out-of-print collectible trading card game based on the animated television series Dragon Booster. The initial card set, Release the Dragon, was released in February 2005 by Score Entertainment. Game ...

* Fruits Basket: Friends of the Zodiac Card Game * InuYasha Trading Card Game *

Sonic X Trading Card Game is a Japanese anime television series based on Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game series. Produced by TMS Entertainment under partnership with Sega and Sonic Team, and directed by Hajime Kamegaki, ''Sonic X'' initially ran for 52 epis ...

Yu Yu Hakusho Trading Card Game The ''Yu Yu Hakusho Trading Card Game'' was first published in 2003 by Score Entertainment, and is based on the anime and manga series ''YuYu Hakusho'' (the series is spelled ''Yu Yu Hakusho'' in FUNimation's anime version and spelled ''YuYu Haku ...

The company was also responsible for the

Epic Battles ''Epic Battles'' is an out-of-print collectible card game produced by Score Entertainment that was released in September 2005. Gameplay attempts to emulate a traditional fighting game experience and features characters and attacks from several ...

Trading Card Game, as well as the newer Afterworld game.

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