HIDDEN✦TEMPLE
Archive of the Rare
Everything Bandai in the Hidden Temple archive. Bandai Carddass cards are the first official Pokémon cards, dispensed from Japanese vending machines beginning September 1996, a month before the Pokémon Trading Card Game, each carrying watercolour artwork by Ken Sugimori.
Alongside the cards, Bandai produced candy-packaged sticker sets. Pick a collection below. Sticker sets sold in Bandai candy packaging.
Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4, the anime-based releases, and the Gold & Silver line are grouped here. Parts 1 and 2 share one 001 to 151 number sequence and split it 75 and 76, with every Pokémon number printed in both a red and a green front, and the 1997 Parts 3 and 4 band their cards FILE No.NNN, which is the National Pokédex number.
The printed totals of the zukan line, read from board photographs on 2026-09-27: this 2005 upper volume 全82種; the 2005 lower volume is printed as 波導スペシャル 下巻 and prints 全81種; FireRed and LeafGreen 上巻 77 and 下巻 74; the 2003 Advance Generation pair 109 on each volume; the Gold and Silver edition 108, its zukan numbers printing a GS001 to GS080 prefix; 裂空スペシャル 113; Diamond and Pearl 50 and 84. Only the 2005 upper volume is published as a checklist so far.
Bandai’s Adventure Digest / Animation Version run: three regular parts of twelve oversized episode sheets, with ten peel-off Pokémon and anime-scene chips on every sheet.
Bandai dispensed Carddass 100 Slide Up from vending machines, and no printed card number, card count or card list has been found for it in any source this archive has read, so the line carries no rows. It opens as a normal checklist the day a badged board or a card face is photographed with its own printed number readable, and until then every identity in it is marked evidence needed.
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The first official Pokémon cards, dispensed from Japanese vending machines from September 1996, a month before the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Each carries watercolour artwork by Ken Sugimori.
Eight checklists: five Carddass card sets, one Zukan volume, the Jumbo Carddass run of 3 parts and 36 sheets, and one candy sticker set.
They share one 001 to 151 number sequence, split 75 and 76, with every Pokémon number printed in both a red and a green front.
No printed card number, card count or card list has been found for it in any source this archive has read. It opens as a checklist once a board or card face with a readable printed number is photographed.
Open a set and press the + Photo button on a tile that has no photo yet. Approved photos can be credited to your Hidden Temple display name, and the rules are in the Contributor License Agreement.