Monster Rancher (1997)
What are you catching? CDs… or maybe the monsters that live inside CDs? (Or “Mystery Discs,” as they’re termed in the game’s mythology.) Either way, you get new collectible creatures in Tecmo’s
Monster Rancher by popping out the PlayStation disc and replacing it with something from your CD collection. The game then scans the disc’s metadata and somehow generates a monster from that information, with certain kinds of CDs generating special kinds of monsters.
What are they doing? From there, you do what it says on the box: Ranch some monsters, which is to say, train them to fight other monsters. Unlike