Greed Island
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Greed Island is a fictitious video game in the manga/anime Hunter x Hunter. It is played on the "Joystation" video game console, is out of print, and sells at auctions for at least 8 billion jennis (the currency of Hunter x Hunter). The game is magical, and transports its players' physical bodies into the world of Greed Island, only releasing them when they die (at which point they die in "real life" too), they win, or they use a special card in the game that lets them out.
Each player in Greed Island is given a card book when they start, that they can call or dismiss just by saying the word "book". Anything in the game world (treasure, plants, animals, etc.) can be turned into a card if certain conditions are met, and these cards can subsequently be permanently turned back into the original object, or stored in a player's book. An object's card looks like a trading card game card, with a picture of the object and a short description of it. Additionally, there are spell cards which are only available from other players or from shops on Greed Island, which cast spells when they're used, like showing you the contents of another player's book, teleporting you to a specific city, teleporting you out of the game, etc.
Among the thousands of different cards that can potentially be made out of objects, won in competitions and minigames or bought at stores, there are 100 "fixed slot" cards (000-099) which are the only cards that will fit in their corresponding "fixed slots" at the back of each player's book. Once a player has acquired all 100 "fixed slot" cards, (s)he wins the game.
As with other fictitious games like the ones played in Yu-Gi-Oh!, there has been enough interest in Greed Island among fans of Hunter x Hunter that real renditions of the game have been produced for the PlayStation 2 and the Game Boy Advance.