obstacles: Off-road has bumps you have to avoid, drag involves your car swaying from side to side along the track and street involves your car slowing and sliding around turns. Skannerz Orbz The fourth Skannerz series did not involve barcode scanning. The Skannerz Orbz are balls that act as arenas for other monsters. Not all previous monsters are included but the selected were put into disks ("dizks") which plug into the orb. The orb has two halves: the bottom half is the storage compartment for the the top half is where the are inserted and battled The have a larger focus on strategy, the player must choose the monsters and strategy before the battle starts; once the battle commences, the player has no control over the battle except to cheer the team on. The top half of the orb can be connected to the top half of a separate player. This battle is set up the same but at the end of a player battle the winner is given special items. Monsters There are 126 monsters to collect divided evenly between the first three consoles and 12 secret monsters (commonly known as the "Exiles") that any console can get. The Skannerz Commander console has another 126 monsters and 12 secret monsters that are unobtainable on the other models. Monsters can be obtained through scanning a product barcode, and made to fight other monsters through a battle with another controller, or a battle with a NPC when a barcode belonging to another console is scanned. Each monster has up to three attacks that can be learned when it gains enough HP. Generally, each attack is more powerful than the last, and the player may choose which one to use to fight. See also Barcode Battler List of barcode games External links Unofficial site (contains links to buying the product and has published books about the product) 2001 video games 2000s toys Handheld electronic games Toy brands Video games developed in the United States Video games using barcodes