Tekken Card Challenge

WonderSwan · 1999 · JP

Publisher: Bandai · Developer: Namco · Genre: Strategy

Tekken Card Challenge is a turn-based fighting game featuring the characters from Tekken 3 plus an exclusive character named Crow. It utilizes a system similar to Nintendo's Pokémon games. Two opponents are to fight at a time, with various cards for different maneuvers and a 100 point HP total for damage accumulation. The player begins with a hand of four cards, drawing more as the duel proceeds. The battle system is similar to Yu-Gi-Oh! in that the three types of cards perform in a rock, paper, and scissors pattern. Attack cards are played against each other to compare values with the loser being discarded and deducting HP, an attack card played against a defense nullifies each other, and two block cards cancel each other out. There is also a minor system of air juggling, which can be quite damaging given the correct order of cards.