page_title: HyperScan
section_title: Games
hierarchical_section_title: HyperScan / Games
caption_attribution_description: The Mattel HyperScan (shown open and with the top casing removed), a video game console released in 2006. A low-cost ($69.99 at launch) and low-powered system, this console was aimed more at the toy market than as an actual video game system. The main feature of the console was its use of RFID collectible cards that allowed for extra characters and abilities in its games. Few games were sold, and the system was discontinued by Mattel within a year.
context_page_description: The HyperScan is a home video game console from the toy company Mattel. It uses radio frequency identification along with traditional video game technology. The included game was rated "T" and the remaining titles were rated "E10+" by the ESRB. The console used UDF format CD-ROMs. The HyperScan has two controller ports, as well as a 13.56 MHz RFID scanner that reads and writes to the "cards" which, in turn, activate features in and save data from the game. Players are able to enhance the abilities of their characters by scanning cards. Games retailed for $19.99 and the console itself for $69.99 at launch, but at the end of its very short lifespan, prices of the system were down to $9.99, the games $1.99, and booster packs $0.99.
  The system was sold in two varieties: a cube and a 2-player value pack. The cube box version was the version sold in stores. It included the system, controller, an X-Men game disc, and 6 X-Men cards. Two-player value packs were sold online and included an extra controller and 12 additional X-Men cards.
  The system was discontinued in 2007 due to poor console, game, and card pack sales.
context_section_description: The games for the system were sold as $20 "Game Packs", which consisted of a game disc accompanied by six game cards (seven for Spider-Man). Additional cards which contained characters, abilities, moves and levels when scanned were part of a six-card "Booster Pack", available for $10/pack. As with most trading card packs, the cards were randomized, meaning a player looking for a certain card to unlock that element of the game may have had to buy multiple Booster Packs in order to get it (while getting multiple cards for another aspect of the game), or trade it for another with a friend, as was likely intended by the Hyperscan's card aspect.
  Multiple booster packs were intended for certain games, with X-Men intending to have 102 cards to unlock parts of the game, according to its instruction manual, in separate "red" and "black" series; the latter went unreleased due to the console's cancellation, effectively leaving half the game locked behind a paywall which, barring some kind of hack which would unlock the entire game, can never be lifted.
  There were only 5 titles known to have been released, with 2 canceled games.
  X-Men – a fighting game in which two characters face off against each other in self-contained matches similar to Street Fighter. The only game on the console to be rated T for "Teen".
  Ben 10 – a side-scrolling adventure quest. The only Cartoon Network-exclusive video game for the system.
  Interstellar Wrestling League – a sort of 2v2 fighting game similar to ClayFighter, but with alien-like characters.
  Marvel Heroes – which includes some X-Men characters, is a side-scrolling adventure quest.
  Spider-Man – a side-scrolling adventure quest.
  The Ben 10 and Spider-Man games are similar to Marvel Heroes.
caption: A partly disassembled HyperScan, showing the RFID scanner.
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