Kōchū Ōja Mushikingu (Mushiking)

Mushiking: The King of Beetles (甲虫王者ムシキング Kōchū Ōja Mushikingu^?) also called Mushiking: Battle of the Beetles, is a Japanese combination of an arcade game and collectible card game developed by Sega.

The game involves battles between cards describing various beetle species. The cards can be scanned in by a Mushiking arcade machine, which will both carry out battles and dispense new cards.

The game has started a craze in Japan, where about 20,000 official tournaments have been held, and over 160 million Mushiking cards have been shipped. [1] A Game Boy Advance Mushiking game has also been released, which has sold over 569,000 copies in Japan. [2] There was also a Mushiking anime, broadcast by TV Tokyo, from 2005 until 2006. Mushiking was also referenced in the first chapter of Shugo Chara!, in which a boy saves his money to buy the game.