This is the 1997 Bandai Carddass run — Japanese vending-machine cards, not a TCG product, and a world apart from the Wizards Base Set most collectors picture. Bandai dispensed Part 3 in April and Part 4 in June '97, together covering all 151 Generation I Pokémon (numbered 001–151) plus two Ito-Yokado checklist cards for our 153-card count. Every illustration shows a Pokémon mid-signature-move in classic Sugimori-era style, with 'POCKET MONSTERS' across the bottom. The chase is the prism subset — 16 holofoil cards — capped by the Rainbow Foil Mew (#151), the only rainbow-foil card Carddass ever made. Because these came one-at-a-time from a machine, condition is everything: most surviving copies carry dispenser wear, so clean centered examples are scarcer than the print run suggests.
- 1'POCKET MONSTERS' wordmark runs along the bottom of the card front; the Carddass logo and National Dex number (001–151) identify the card.
- 216 cards are 'prism' holofoils — a foil background behind the art instead of the standard pixelated background.
- 3Mew (#151) exists as a unique Rainbow Foil — the only rainbow-foil card in the entire Carddass Pokémon line, distinct from the 16 prisms.
- 4Card backs were redesigned for Part 3-4: front-matching artwork plus evolution-line info, replacing the Game Boy sprites used on earlier parts.
- 5Two non-Pokémon checklist/promo cards (one numbered 0, one carrying the Carddass logo in place of a number) were handed out at Ito-Yokado stores and round the set to 153.
Vending-machine product, so handle wear is the enemy: dispenser scuffs, edge nicks, and surface scratches are common, and the prism/foil cards show hairlines under light. Sharp corners and clean foil grade at a steep premium. Backs were redesigned for this run, so a clean back matters too.
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