Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Access or authorization
Patent
1997-06-05
2000-08-15
Sager, Mark A.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Access or authorization
463 43, A63F 922
Patent
active
061028002
ABSTRACT:
Security is ensured by judging agreement with a specific indication, such as a trademark, whose identity is socially recognizable to effectively expel counterfeits from the market. A game machine in which a CD-ROM 17 is mounted on a game machine 10 to play a game based on program information stored in the CD-ROM 17 comprises a recognition sensor 22 reading a trademark indication region 20 on the exterior surface of the CD-ROM 17, and a judging unit judging whether a specific trademark .TM. is displayed in a trademark indication region, the game based on the program information being prevented from starting or if started stopped when the specific trademark .TM. is not displayed.
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Kitahara Atsushi
Owaki Hidetaka
Sager Mark A.
Sega Enterprises Ltd.
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