Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
Patent
1995-09-01
1997-06-03
Harrison, Jessica
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
463 40, 463 1, 455 2, 348 3, 379111, A63F 924
Patent
active
056348487
ABSTRACT:
A video game system has a game supplier and a terminal device connected to the game supplier through a transmission line. The terminal device has a plurality of game units on which a video game program is played. A first memory is provided in the game supplier wherein a plurality of video game programs are stored. The video game program is transmitted to the terminal device. A second memory is provided in the terminal device for storing the video game programs transmitted from the game supplier. A third memory is provided in the game unit for storing information on playing condition of the video game program. A calculator is provided in the game supplier for calculating a charge for using the video programs in accordance with the information stored in the third memory and applied to the calculator through the transmission line.
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Tsuda Yoichiro
Watanabe Kazuhiro
Harrison Jessica
Pioneer Electronic Corporation
Sager Mark A.
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