Pokémon Carddass Part 3 & 4

Pokémon Carddass Part 3 & 4 followed in 1997, again covering all 151 Generation I Pokémon in new watercolour artwork, plus two promotional checklist cards distributed at Ito-Yokado stores, 153 cards in all. Parts 3 and 4 introduced more dynamic, action-focused depictions of the Pokémon.

The printed number band on every 1997 card reads FILE No.NNN, and that number is the National Pokédex number. It is read here on two photographed cards: the typed back of FILE No.004 ヒトカゲ, which also prints the classification, height and weight that cross-check the identity, and the prism front of FILE No.144. The 153 cards were dispensed as two releases, Part 3 in mid-April 1997 and Part 4 in early June 1997, and each row below carries the release its catalogue entry places it in: 74 Pokémon in Part 3 and 77 in Part 4, plus one promotional checklist card each.

Correction, 2026-09-13. Three statements on this page are withdrawn. It said the Part 3 and Part 4 split is not recorded: two catalogues publish it, one as two tables of 75 and 78 entries and the other as 74 kinds for Part 3, and the two agree species for species. It credited Bandai as the maker: the typed back photographed at full frame prints 発売元 株式会社バンプレスト 販売元 株式会社バンダイ 1997, so this is a Banpresto release distributed by Bandai. It credited the artwork to Ken Sugimori: no source names the painter of this set, so the attribution is removed rather than carried. The split rests on two catalogues and not yet on a photographed Part-badged display board or box, which is the one thing that would settle it, so every release badge below is a catalogue attribution and is labelled as one. No source photograph is copied into Hidden Temple.