Reader Geoffrey Litwack points to this alternate url for Barcode Battlers ( Link), Thomas Williams finds another ( Link), and John Harris points to yet another ( Link), and adds - "The Monster Rancher games for Playstation (if memory serves, I may have gotten the title wrong) use a similar technique by reading audio CDs and using those as raw data for similar game purposes."ĭave says, " Skannerz were here in the US 5 or 6 years ago: I bought one at the local supermart/department store. Maybe they've improved on it, as I seem to remember I had an awfully hard time getting anything to scan properly. Update: BoingBoing reader Rob Greene says, "It seems very reminiscent of a toy I had about 10 years ago called Barcode Battler. Generally, each attack is more powerful than the last, and the player may choose which one to use to fight."If i'm not mistaken, this handheld electronic toy - Scannerz Commander - uses everyday bar codes as inputs to create a tribe of monsters for the user to play with/against. Monsters can be obtained through scanning a product barcode, and made to fight other monsters through a battle with another controller, or a battle with a NPC when a barcode belonging to another console is scanned.Įach monster has up to three attacks that can be learned when it gains enough HP. The Skannerz Commander console has another 126 monsters and 12 secret monsters that are unobtainable on the other models. There are 126 monsters to collect divided evenly between the first three consoles and 12 secret monsters (commonly known as the "Exiles") that any console can get. This battle is set up the same but at the end of a player battle the winner is given special items. The top half of the orb can be connected to the top half of a separate player. The orbz have a larger focus on strategy, the player must choose the monsters and strategy before the battle starts once the battle commences, the player has no control over the battle except to cheer the team on.
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