Game apparatus and storage medium storing game program

Details Game apparatus and storage medium storing game program Game apparatus and storage medium storing game program

2004-07-29

2009-06-23

Hotaling, II, John M (Department: 3714)

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

Perceptible output or display

Reexamination Certificate

active

07549923

ABSTRACT:
A game apparatus includes: a plurality of operation controllers to be operated by separate players; obtained partial area storage locations for storing a partial area obtained by each player as an obtained partial area; a partial area choice mechanism for allowing each player to choose a partial area in turns; a single-player-mode game execution mechanism for, when a partial area is chosen, executing a single-player-mode game for a player who has chosen the partial area; and an obtained partial area adding mechanism for, depending on a result of the single-player-mode game, storing the partial area chosen by the player who has played the single-player-mode game as an obtained partial area of the players in the obtained partial area storage locations.

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