HyperScan

The HyperScan is a discontinued home video game console from the toy company Mattel, and was marketed for tweens.

The console uniquely includes a 13.56 MHz radio-frequency identification (RFID) scanner that reads and writes to special IntelliCards which activate features in, and save data from, the games.

With disappointing sales, Mattel discontinued the HyperScan the following year, and canceled all upcoming game and card releases.

Additional cards which containe characters, abilities, moves and levels when scanned are part of a six-card Booster Pack, released for $10/pack.

X-Men intended to have 102 cards to unlock parts of the game in separate "red" and "black" series; the latter went unreleased due to the console's cancellation.

Two-player value packs were sold online and included an extra controller and 12 additional X-Men cards.

The system was universally panned by critics for its clunky design, broken controls, poor library, long loading screens, and the unnecessary usage of cards to select characters, and was officially discontinued in 2007.

The HyperScan is based on the Sunplus SPG290A system-on-a-chip.
A partly disassembled HyperScan shows the RFID scanner.
The HyperScan controller