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Digimon World: Digital Card Battle

This is a battle system using the mechanism of a card game, and is performed not by a digital monster card game but by rules peculiar to the game.

22 December 1999

Digimon World: Digital Card Battle is a role-playing (rpg), released 22 December 1999 on PlayStation.

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What Digimon World: Digital Card Battle is

Digimon World: Digital Card Battle was released in 1999. It was published by Bandai. It is available on PlayStation only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The stage is a digital world where the intensity is determined by cards. It is governed by seven card readers who are at the top of the card battle. But File Island is threatened by a sudden bug card. The card readers kept each other in check and wouldn't cooperate. The hero summoned by Babamon is said to be a legendary hero. Babamon entrusted him with the deck and he collected Sevens cards.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective.

Where it sits in the Digimon series

Digimon World: Digital Card Battle is the fifth of 85 entries we hold in the Digimon series. It arrived 8 months after Digital Monster Ver. WonderSwan. The next entry was Digimon Yolei and Hawkmon in 1999.

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What it launched against

Digimon World: Digital Card Battle launched on 22 December 1999, within three weeks of Quake III Arena, Shenmue, Planescape: Torment and The Typing of the Dead.

Released around the same time: Quake III Arena, Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead.

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When did Digimon World: Digital Card Battle come out?
Digimon World: Digital Card Battle was released on 22 December 1999 for PlayStation.

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