Data-Byters

Data-Byters is an El Kadsreian tokusatsu game show presented by television personality Fluffarella Jones with a concept created by Takahiro Koizumi.

Gameplay
The show involves between 100 and 142 contestants who "enter the cyber world" for a series of physical challenges, with many similarities to both ' and '. Each show finishes with a "Cyber Showdown" in which the titular Data-Byters are faced by the contestants who manage to complete all the challenges. Early on, they would storm the castle set itself in a short-range water gun assault. Later episodes have introduced lasers and light-sensitive targets. If the contestant's gun hits a Data-Byter's "Light Avoider Shutoff Switch", it causes a "Byter Showdown", and as a result the "cyber world" is "saved" and the game "won". The player who stops all the Data-Byters wins $50,000.

Inventor

 * Takahiro Koizumi

Remakes

 * United States - A pilot for ABC in 1996, A pay-per-view special in 1998, A pilot for CBS in 2003, a short-lived Fox version in 2007, and a 2020 version on Gradient.