Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – With communication link
Patent
1997-07-25
2000-09-12
Sager, Mark A.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
With communication link
A63F 924
Patent
active
061170135
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a game device system with the features of the pre-characterizing part of claim 1.
Such a game device system is known from WO 94/11696 for example, wherein it is proposed, in order to set up competitions, especially of electronic darts, or to make it possible for players living at distances to play together, to connect together spatially separate game devices by means of data telecommunications and to synchronise the games console displays to display the game results. The data telecommunication between the individual game devices is preferably effected over the telephone network. A central computer can also be connected to the data telecommunication system in order to evaluate the game results of all the game devices.
A similar system for playing on a plurality of amusement devices remote from one another is known from WO 94/25928, wherein a bidirectional connecting line is provided between the game devices. The amusement or game devices are here also connected together or networked via modems and data telecommunications lines. Thus the data relevant to the game can also be displayed directly at the other devices, whereby the results of the game opponents can be compared with one another and can be represented in the respective displays of the game devices as sum or difference results. This game device system is designed especially for amusement arcades, wherein the input and output signals of the amusement devices concerned are processed by a central computer, so that central control and allocation of the monetary stakes is facilitated. Moreover the data telecommunication line can also be connected to a separate personal computer of an organiser, which facilitates the data evaluation directly by the automatic organiser.
An electronic competition system is further known from DE 3 522 136 (=GB-A 2 161 629), using video games devices, which each comprise a display device and are connected through a data line to a central computer. The identification data of the individual players and their credit are stored in the central computer. Each player holds a card containing his identification, which he inserts into a card reader of the games device before beginning a game. The computer evaluates the game results after the credit checking and the go-ahead and determines a winner. These data on the winner are then fed over the data line to the individual games devices and are displayed there.
A game device system is further known from EP-A 0 015 081 wherein a plurality of game devices are connected through data telecommunications, for example a telephone line, to a central computer. Program information emanating from the central computer is sent to the individual game devices, in order to alter the game variants. The data telecommunications can also be used to send the game results attained at the individual game devices to a central computer, for example in order to determine the game frequency, the winning frequency and the like at an individual device.
It is common to all these game systems that the game devices are relatively expensive. Thus, each game device requires at least an input device in the form of a joystick for video game devices, an electronic dartboard for electronic darts or a keyboard for a gambling machine, a random generator and a device for receiving money and paying out money. Moreover, interfaces, modems and the like are necessary for connection to the central computer. These components of the game device are in part of quite complicated construction and also require complex monitoring and checking in the case of gambling machines with an integrated random generator. This monitoring and possibly servicing at regular intervals prescribed by the lawgiver is however very expensive, since the technical personnel have to travel to the sites of the individual game devices for this. Making arrangements with the owner of the restaurant in which such the gambling machine is installed for example is frequently difficult, so that such a visit is frequ
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