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Tekken Card Challenge

Tekken Card Challenge is a turn-based fighting game released only in Japan for the WonderSwan. It uses the characters from Tekken 3 plus an exclusive character to the game named Crow.

17 June 1999

Tekken Card Challenge is a card & board game developed by Namco, released 17 June 1999 on WonderSwan.

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What Tekken Card Challenge is

Tekken Card Challenge is a card & board game game developed by Namco and released in 1999. It was published by Bandai. It is available on WonderSwan only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story mode plays on a 15x15 grid map covered with shrines, villages, and impassible mountains. You will only have a certain number of steps to make it to stage exit or you'll lose. Of course this Harshadic field is populated with a grave propensity of villains. Roving in the dark, for all the area of the world is obscured by 'fog' until the player walks there, are mysterious stormtroopers called Crow, Owl, Eagle. Also wandering the land are Tekken characters who hold long standing grudges against the player's character. Above it all in a high tower is the heinous Ogre, can he be defeated? Along the way cards can be found that will increase the amount of moves that can be performed in…
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Tekken series

Tekken Card Challenge is the seventh of 84 entries we hold in the Tekken series. It arrived a year after Tekken 3. The next entry was Tekken Tag Tournament in 1999.

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What it launched against

Tekken Card Challenge launched on 17 June 1999, within three weeks of Driver, Mario Golf, Outcast and Vandal Hearts II.

Released around the same time: Driver, Mario Golf, Outcast, Vandal Hearts II.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

Tekken Card Challenge — frequently asked questions

When did Tekken Card Challenge come out?
Tekken Card Challenge was released on 17 June 1999 for WonderSwan.

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