Data Carddass


Data Carddass is a series of Japanese arcade game machines created by Bandai, which largely focus around the digital use of collectible trading cards. It is an expansion of Bandai's Carddass collectible trading card series, which allows players to use special cards to interact with arcade video games. Many of these machines revolve around various anime and tokusatsu franchises owned by Bandai. The machines first began release in Japanese arcades from March 2005.
Bandai had sold 100,000 Data Carddass arcade machines by March 2012. For use with the machines, over 2.4billion Data Cardass cards had been sold by 2017, increasing to Data Carddass cards sold as of 2021.

Overview

Data Carddass make use of special Carddass cards with data stored on them. These collectible cards can be read by various Data Carddass machines in order to interact with the game. For example, in Aikatsu!, a game revolving around fashion, players can scan cards featuring various clothes to make their character wear them. Depending on the machine, cards can either be inserted via a slot or scanned via a flat panel. Each machine is also fitted with various controls unique to their specific minigames, such as buttons which require timed presses or touches. Performing well in these games can also grant additional cards. Select machines utilise IC cards, which allow frequent players to save personal data from the games. Certain machines can also scan collectible toys to affect the gameplay.

Series

These machines are periodically updated as new elements are added in their respective franchises.

Ongoing series

; Official IC Card Support typeGreat Animal Kaiser July 2012～Daikaijuu Rush ULTRA FRONTIER September 2013～
; No IC Card Support typeUltraman Fusion Fight! 2018 Ultraman Fusion Fight! 2019

Retired series

Kamen Rider Ganbarizing Ultraman Fusion Fight! Hyakujuu Taisen Animal KaiserDragon Ball series