Mushiking, sometimes referred to as Mushiking: The King of Beetles is a trading card game that utilises rock-paper-scissors mechanics. To play players scan in their beetle and skill cards, and then choose between three rock-paper-scissors move options to perform against the opponent in turn, with the winning hand dealing damage against the opponent, whilst a draw would result in both beetles taking a little damage.
Games[]
- Mushiking: The King of Beetles - 2003, Arcade.
- Mushiking: The King of Beetles II - 2005, Arcade.
- Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi - 2005, Game Boy Advance
- Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi DS - 2005, Nintendo DS
- Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi 2 - 2006, Nintendo DS.
- Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking Super Collection - 2007, Nintendo DS
- Mushiking Battle Gacchu Guts! - 2010, Arcade.
- Mushiking: The New Beetle King - 2015, Arcade.
Spinoffs[]
- Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Atsumete Asobou Kouchuu Zukan - 2005, Pico
- Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Mori no Tami no Densetsu: Minna de Tanken! Kouchuu no Mori - 2005, Advanced Pico Beena
- Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Nebu-Hakase to Kazu Katachi ni Challenge! - 2006, Advanced Pico Beena
Media[]
- Mushiking: The Guardians of the Forest - 2005, anime.
- Mushiking: The King of Beetles ~ Zach Adventure Series - 2005, manga.
- Mushiking: The King of Beetles the movie "The Road to the Greatest Champion" - 2005, animated movie
- Raise Your Own Mushiking - 2006, LCD
Trivia[]
- Mushiking holds a Guinness World Record: "Most official tournaments held for one arcade game series". As of November 2007 Mushiking had 110240 official tournaments.
- The series is Sega's second foray into digital card arcade games after World Club Champion Football and it's success paved the way for other titles such as Love and Berry, Dinosaur King, Code of Joker and Sangokushi Taisen.
- The creator of Super Smash Bros and Kirby, Masahiro Sakurai is the programmer of the tamogatchi style LCD game Raise Your Own Mushiking.
- Yakuza Kiwami includes a parody game of Mushiking, MesuKing, which involves scantily clad bikini girls in vaguely insectoid costumes battling it out. The mini game retains Mushiking's Rock-Paper-Scissors gameplay.