Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Data storage or retrieval
Patent
1995-08-17
1998-04-21
Harrison, Jessica
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Data storage or retrieval
273121B, A63F 702, A63F 922
Patent
active
057411840
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a game hall system utilizing storage media.
BACKGROUND ART
Generally, in a game hall, a plurality of game machines are arranged together with at least one adjustment device which performs the delivery of a prize, etc. on the basis of a game result. In recent years, regarding such a game hall, there has been proposed, for example, one wherein the progress of a game in the game machine is recorded in a magnetic card which has a data recording function and which has been purchased beforehand, and wherein information items recorded in the magnetic card are read by the adjustment device so as to manage a game situation or exchange game media for a prize in conformity with the read information items. A prior-art example concerning this game hall is a technique disclosed in the pamphlet of PCT Publication WO92/20415. According to the prior-art technique, in a game apparatus having a game execution section with which a game is played by the use of game media, and a game-media holder in which the game media for use in the game are temporarily held, the number of game media which are handled during the execution of the game is managed, and the managed number of game media is recorded into a card, being a storage medium, by a write circuit.
With the prior-art technique, however, the identical magnetic card cannot be used many times due to heavy wear in the case of recycling it when the number of game media written in the magnetic card has become zero or after the game media have been exchanged for a prize by reading the number thereof by means of an adjustment device. Therefore, the card is usually disposed of after having been utilized once, which poses an environmental problem. Another problem is that since a new card is issued for every game player, the technique results in a high cost.
Moreover, the information items of the card are directly read and written by read and write circuits, respectively, so that inferior contact with the card is to be expected.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has been made in order to solve the problems stated above, and has for its object to provide a game hall system which can utilize recyclable storage media. Another object is to provide a game hall system in which inferior contact with a storage medium is not experienced when reading/writing the information thereof.
In order to accomplish the aforementioned objects, a game hall system having a plurality of game machines each of which is equipped with a game execution section for executing a game, consists in comprising storage media in each of which information items about the game are stored; the storage medium including a storage-medium transmitter/receiver which transmits and receives by radio, a storage-medium controller which controls the transmission and reception of the storage-medium transmitter/receiver, a memory portion in which the information items transmitted and received by the storage-medium transmitter/receiver are stored, and a power supply circuit which is chargeable; each of the game machines including a game-machine transmission/reception section which transmits and receives information to and from the storage medium, and a game-machine controller which controls the transmission and reception of the game-machine transmission/reception section and controls the execution section; the game-machine transmission/reception section including a game-machine-side setting port in which the storage medium is set, a game-machine transmitter/receiver which transmits and receives by radio to and from the storage medium set in the game-machine-side setting port, and a charging circuit which charges the power supply circuit of the storage medium set in the game-machine-side setting port.
It is possible that the game machine further includes a setting switch which serves to set an amount of money to be spent on a game, and an end switch which serves to give a command for ending the game; that, in compliance with manipulation of the setting switch, the exe
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Kawashima Kazunari
Takemoto Takatoshi
Harrison Jessica
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
O'Neill Michael
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