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[–]shapterjm 2 points3 points ago

Dafuq is this?

[–]MileyRay-XO 4 points5 points ago

A Skanner. You scan barcodes on things in stores and get monsters. :)

[–]redditalin[S] 2 points3 points ago

Skannerz. You would scan barcodes, and receive monsters to battle with.

Skannerz Wikipedia

[–]shapterjm 1 point2 points ago

Yeah, I've never heard of these...

[–]rubberrazors 2 points3 points ago

Oh, god I remember theeessseeee. I begged for one for Christmas.

[–]Zinfandel 0 points1 point ago

Never seen or heard of this before.

[–]TrashCanKitten 2 points3 points ago

I remember I wanted one so bad as a kid. I saved ALL barcodes so that when I would get a skanner I could get tons of monsters, and my parents never purchased one for me.... Can these still be bought?

[–]firex726 1 point2 points ago

Amazon and eBay have them. Looks to be around $20->$40.

[–]AkumaMatata 0 points1 point ago

Dat commander.

[–]CoolH4ndLuke 0 points1 point ago

Ah, the memories.....

[–]katarn22 1 point2 points ago

I still have mine, but in order to heal your monsters you had to scan something in the instruction manual I think which I've since thrown out :/

[–]wolfEXE57 1 point2 points ago

Nope digimon was better

[–]rcavin1118 0 points1 point ago

I had the big one when I was younger. I loved the shit out of it when I actually got a monster. I don't know if I was doing something wrong or if it was just rare to get a monster, but I never seemed to get one. I had it for maybe a year and had only collected about 3 monsters. It was still fun to use.

[–]JWKoolBaby 0 points1 point ago

Me and my friends actually got kicked out of a Wal-Mart for scanning the ballz out of all the items. Great times with those things.

[–]Harhan 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, a lot of them were known for ruining Barcodes. Not sure how it happened

[–]Darkness62 0 points1 point ago

Isn't Pataak an insult in Klingon?

[–]Kilshin 0 points1 point ago

Took one into the Washington Monument in 2002..... guy at xray machine "Whats in your bag son?"

[–]SN1PERxHAWK 0 points1 point ago

I still got my blue one somewhere :D

[–]bazookafox 0 points1 point ago

Until you lose the "healing" barcode.

"Oh my guy is low on health? Time to hit that restart button"

[–]Aregular89 -3 points-2 points ago

People under 15 in this thread

[–]AkumaMatata 8 points9 points ago

Err, I'm 21 and I played with this shit.

[–]Dumbificate 1 point2 points ago

ditto (22)

[–]james9075 -3 points-2 points ago

15 and had one as a kid