GAME SYSTEM

• US 20070077999A1
• Filed: 09/22/2006
• Published: 04/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Inubushi, Takashi, Narita, Yoshihiko, Naraoka, Hiroshi, Komatsu, Masayuki, Minamino, Tadashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,221,232 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3234 about the performance of a gaming system, e.g. revenue, diagnosis of the gaming system
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3237 about the players, e.g. profiling, responsible gaming, strategy/behavior of players, location of players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament

Abstract

To provide a game system which improves a sense of being a member when a plurality of game machines are grouped. In a game system, in which each of a plurality of game machines G is sorted to any one group TTT and a game using a game element R is played among a plurality of game machines G, the game machine G obtains the evaluation to the content of the play of the game and a server CS updates registered group information 41 representing a group TTT holding the game element R into a group of the game machine G that obtained the evaluation when the evaluation and registered evaluation 43 stored related to the game element R meet a predetermined condition.

Claims

1. A game system, in which each of a plurality of game machines connected to a server is sorted to any one of a plurality of groups and a game using at least one game element is played among the plurality of game machines,

wherein each of the plural game machines having:

a game machine storing device for storing group information representing the group and game element information representing the game element;

a game control device for controlling the game using the game element;

an evaluating device for obtaining an evaluation to a content of play of the game based on a predetermined evaluation criterion; and

a game machine data transmitting device for transmitting game machine data including the group information, the game element information, and the obtained evaluation to the server;

the server having;

a game machine data receiving device for receiving the game machine data from each of the game machines;

a registered data storing device for storing the game element information, registered group information representing the group holding a game element represented by the game element information, and a registered evaluation which is the evaluation obtained by any game machine of the group represented by the registered group information being related to each other; and

a registration updating device for updating the registered evaluation and the registered group information into the evaluation and the group information included in the game machine data respectively when the registration evaluation related to the game element information included in the game machine data stored in the registered data storing device and the evaluation included in the game machine data satisfy a predetermined condition.

2. The game system according to claim 1,

wherein the game is a battle game;

the game machine has an operation object setting device for setting the game element as an operation object of the game machine itself;

the game control device controls the battle game that the game element of the operation object battles with the game element of the operation object of other game machine; and

the evaluation by the evaluating device is an evaluation to a content of play different from victory or defeat of the game.

3. The game system according to claim 2,

wherein the game is a professional wrestling game and the evaluation by the evaluating device is an evaluation to a content of play in the professional wrestling game.

4. The game system according to claim 1,

wherein the game machine has a game machine processing device for carrying out predetermined processing when the group information of the group in which the game machine itself is included is stored in the registered group information with reference to the registered data storing device of the server.

5. The game system according to claim 1,

wherein the server has a group processing device for carrying out predetermined processing with respect to the game machine included in the group which is represented by the registered group information.

6. The game system according to claim 1,

wherein each of the game machines is a game machine for commercial use and the group is a shop where at least one game machine is installed.