Chiriku
Really? I imagine this would have been very appealing to the tortured sensibilities of a teenager reared on Wuthering Heights and Dark Shadows episodes. There are certain eras or time periods where a more gothic sensibility is more acceptable/in vogue among the teen set. These things go in waves (in America, for instance, the spiritualism craze of the late Victorians/Edwardians versus the bland faux- wholesomeness of the 1950s).
Perhaps 1980 was early enough before the slick teenybop synth avalanche that teens in that year would have found this deck creepy-cool rather than creepy full stop. You were a young teen then, right? Don't you think the deck would have been more appealing to your peers in 1980 than it would be to teens even ten years later? (And then the cycle would begin again, because the mid-90s were a high time for teen goths and those discovering neo-Paganism).
I also don't think this deck is as creepy as many make out; it's just the eye sockets that make people forget about the large, winking television advertiser's sparkles of light attached to most figures and objects.
I love Swiss printings if you mean AG Muller (and I recall that my Sacred Rose, purchased in the 90s, was very AG Muller-ish in presentation and card stock)-- they have long been my favorite publisher because of their card stock.
But, if it were a deck I felt the need to have two printings of, I, like you, enjoy the matte US Games offerings, in the main. Sun and Moon is horrid to me, though, like the cardboard of a boxed food item. But Dreaming Way is good; the version of the Haindl I have is good.
Big difference there!
Some people say that giftees can't be choosers. We most certainly can...
. Silky card stock, sharp images. It's a shame how much the image quality was sacrificed in that green box edition. Then again, you can only notice that if you've seen the earlier printings.