Game system

• US 20050101381A1
• Filed: 11/10/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp. (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp. (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Inventors: Hattori, Takanori
• Application Number:
  US10/984,780
• Publication Number:
  US 20050101381A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/29
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3251 involving media of variable value, e.g. programmable cards, programmable tokens

Abstract

A game system includes: a plurality of terminal devices, including a reader for reading data from a card and a payout device for paying out a card on which is stored data that differs from the data read from the card by the reader; a controller for receiving sets of game data from the individual terminal devices, and for employing the game data to proceed a game; a commonly used display unit connected to the controller to display a game image in consonance with the proceeding of a game, wherein the reader is capable of reading data from a plurality of types of cards that play different roles in the proceeding of a game, and in accordance with the result of a game, the payout device pays out a card that includes a privilege card that is advantageous for a player during the proceeding of the game.

Claims

1. A game system comprising:

a plurality of terminal devices, including a reader for reading first data from a card and a payout device for paying out a card on which is stored second data that differs from the first data read from the card by the reader;

a controller for receiving sets of game data from the individual terminal devices, and for employing the game data to proceed a game;

a common display unit connected to the controller to display a game image in consonance with proceeding of a game, wherein;

the reader reads the first data from a plurality of types of the cards that play different roles in the proceeding of a game; and

in accordance with the result of the game, the payout device pays out a card that includes a privilege card that is advantageous for a player during the proceeding of the game.

2. The game system according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of types of cards that play different roles in the proceeding of the game include:

a player card on which data concerning a level of the player that is set by the controller contingent on the result of a game; and

a game card that, as a result of the game, is paid out during the game by the payout device and is provided for the player.

3. The game system according to claim 2, wherein

contingent on the result of the game, the payout device pays out the privilege card.

4. The game system according to claim 1, wherein

contingent on the result of the game, the payout device pays out a plurality of the privilege cards.

5. The game system according to claim 1, wherein

upon receiving the game data relevant to privilege data in the privilege card, the controller proceeds the game so as to transmit advantageous information to a player who is playing the game with the terminal device from which the game data is transmitted.

6. The game system according to claim 1, wherein

upon receiving the game data relevant to privilege data in the privilege card, the controller proceeds the game so as to cause an advantageous event to a player who is playing the game with the terminal device from which the game data is transmitted.

7. The game system according to claim 1, wherein:

the controller performs a privilege data selection lottery, the controller determines whether privilege data to be recorded on the card, and when recording of the privilege data is determined, the controller determines which set of the privilege data to be recorded; and

the privilege data selection lottery is performed after sampling of random numbers and a privilege data selection table.