Digi-Battle, also known as Digimon and Digital Monster Card Game / Hyper Colosseum in some markets, is an out-of-print

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(CCG) by

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and

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. It was initially released in February 2000 as fixed 62-card starter decks, they changed the card design at the end of 2000 but because Upper deck already printed a French version of the booster 3 series in the traditional style, they still went ahead and released it, Bandai went on to release four 30-card "Street Decks in the new design". Six additional expansions were released called Series 1 through 6. Upper Deck's contract with Bandai expired after the release of Series 2, when Bandai began producing it. Digi-Battle released a series of promos through

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as well as other venues like movie theaters, video game and television promotions. The game ended in 2001 with a transition to Bandai's next CCG iteration called ''Digimon D-Tector'' that was mostly released in stores like

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