Title: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: den68 on January 08, 2007, 02:45:22 PM http://www.hyperscangamer.com/
My wife got me this for Christmas, well "technically" Santa did. You can check the link above to check it out. Just thought I'd chime in with what I think of it. I think it's pretty cool. It's basically a 2-D fighting game system. The novelty is that the playable characters are all on trading cards. Other cards include power upgrades, finishing moves, attack mods and training levels. The console media is CD and opens like a laptop. The part that flips open is the card scanner. You choose a character from the cards you have and scan it into the came, you can also scan in the other upgrade cards before you begin play. As you progress you can re-scan your character card to update you character. The character cards are like memory cards. I have 2 games for it. X-men and Interstellar Wrestling League. The are pretty much Genesis/SNES though the X-men game seems closer to PS1. RIght now there are only 3 games available. The third being Ben-10. The box list Avatar as an available game but I've not seen it anywhwere and it is not listed on the site. The site has 2 more games listed as Coming Soon, Marvel Super Heroes and Spider-Man. I doubt this thing will have much longevity. It is pretty cheap though you could spend quite a bit trying to get all the cards. They come in packs of 6 and there's about 100 per came. The fact that it appears to be for fighting games only is limiting. The IWL game was already in the clearance bin at Target. That's not a good sign. That said I've had fun with the system so far and hope to see a few more games for it before it fades into obscurity. Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: Izret101 on January 08, 2007, 02:49:59 PM Clearance bin huh?
That is promising for me :) I thought this looked like fun. I still want to get one. Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: tholly on January 08, 2007, 06:08:11 PM hmmm....looks kinds interesting.....i might have to pick one up when its deep into clearance...
Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: s1lence on January 10, 2007, 10:11:06 AM I've been looking at getting one as well. I saw the games on clearance and the system was down to 50 bucks at Target. Seems like the cards are what really costs you money.
Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: Sauza12 on January 10, 2007, 10:32:31 AM I saw this at TRU for $70 and I seriously considered picking it up. If it's only $50 at Target, I might go out and get it now.
Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: phoenix1967 on January 10, 2007, 04:28:43 PM Gives me a reason to go to Target, too...
Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: Rejinx on January 11, 2007, 03:02:42 AM I saw this on TV. I don't think to post about in here but it did look interesting. I will most likely want to see how cheap they get before I buy.
Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: Barracuda on January 11, 2007, 05:45:57 AM I like the idea behind the system. But I'll have to wait until I find one really cheap before I'll buy.
Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: den68 on January 12, 2007, 02:48:32 PM my wife stopped at Target at lunch, the card sets for Interstellar Wrestling were down to $1.98. she grabbed me 5 more packs. I may hit a few Targets tomorrow to see if any more are marked that low.
Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: nester on January 15, 2007, 04:27:20 AM How's the frame rate on that thing? It looked pretty sluggish on the website.
Title: Re: I got a Mattel Hyperscan Post by: den68 on January 15, 2007, 12:44:36 PM it doesn't feel sluggish to me.
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