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Mushiking: The King of Beetles

System(s): Sega NAOMI

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Mirai R&D

Genre: Simulation

Number of players: 1-2

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Mushiking: The King of Beetles (甲虫王者ムシキング) is a card-battle stategy game that allows players to scan the cards in the arcade machine.

Story

Popo is a little fairy how lives pacifically with the insects. But one day an evil wizard commanded one of your beetles to kill Popo, but a beetle how was refered as Mushiking fighted to death to save him. Now Popo must stop the evil wizard's plans.

Gameplay

Insert a coin and get the card. You will get a beetle card (green) or a skill card (orange). Scan one beetle card and three skill cards when the "Please scan" appears on the screen. Press one of these skill buttons: Rock for hit the opponent's beetle, Paper for throw the opponent's beetle or Scissors for pinch the opponent's beetle.

Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking uses a cabinet originally designed for the Kids Medal series, primarily for its touch-screen interface. It runs on NAOMI hardware as opposed to ST-V, however.

History

As of 2008, more than 100,000 tournaments have been held, and 20 million cards have shipped. The game has made it into the Guinness Book of World records with the highest numbers of tournaments held for an arcade game. Mushiking has inspired several children's card games in arcades which up to 2015.

Promotional material

NAOMI English flyer

References

Games in the Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking Series
	Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking (2003) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking II (2005) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking III (200x) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking IV (200x) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking V (200x) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking VI (200x) \| Mushiking Battle Gacchu Guts!! (2010) \| Shin Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking (2015)
	Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi (2005)
	Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi DS (2005) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi 2 (2006) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking Super Collection (2007)
	Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Atsumete Asobou Kouchuu Zukan (2005)
	Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Mori no Tami no Densetsu: Minna de Tanken! Kouchuu no Mori (2005) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Nebu-Hakase to Kazu Katachi ni Challenge! (2006)
	Sodatete! Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking (2006)
Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking related media
	Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking Zakku no Boukenhen (2004) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking (2005)
	Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Mori no Tami no Densetsu (2005) \| Gekijou-ban Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi (2005) \| Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking Super Battle Movie: Yami no Kaizou Kouchuu (2007)