Konami Co., Ltd.

Konami Corporation

Mitsuhiro Nomi

Yasuhiro Noguchi

Satoshi Ueno

Tadasu Kitae

Yoshihiko Ota

In a game system, instruction marks corresponding to sounds constituting part of a music number are displayed on a monitor, and a game player plays a game by operating a signal generating deviceby at least one of a hitting motion and a swinging motion at specified timings based on the displayed instruction marks. The game systemis provided with a display means for successively renewably displaying the instruction marks on a display screen of the monitor, a signal generator provided in the signal generating devicefor generating a signal when the signal generating device is operated by the above motion, an evaluating means for evaluating a game result based on a generation timing of the signal, and a sound generating means for outputting at least the background sounds.

Musical player-motion sensing game system

A game system is provided with a converting means including a voice input member, such as a microphone, for allowing the game player or his/her friend to input voices and for converting the inputted voices into electrical signal data, a sound data storage for storing the electrical signal data obtained by the conversion together with predetermined sound-relating data corresponding to contents of instructions, a sound generator for generating voices from the corresponding electrical signal data when a game player makes a motion in response to the content of instruction, and a device for evaluating a game result based on the content of instruction. Accordingly, a sound output type game system which can provide more interesting and enjoyable games can be realized.

Game system

A message-creating game machine includes at least one storage unit among a first storage unit for storing a plurality of images displaying character strings constituting sentences, a second storage unit for storing a plurality of images displaying character strings constituting words, and a third storage unit for storing a plurality of monosyllabic character images. The game machine also includes a display unit for displaying characters, a character-image-display control unit for displaying the character images stored in the storage unit on the display unit, a selecting unit for selecting at least one character image from among the character images displayed on the display unit, and a message-synthesizing unit for synthesizing a message from the selected character image.

Message-creating game machine and message-creating method therefor

An inverted polygon data memory stores inverted polygon data generated in advance, among models to be considered for reflection on a water surface, of those models whose polygon data are stored in a polygon data memory. Based on an image display graphic command from a CPU, an image display processor processes graphics data and sends image data to a frame buffer. The image display graphic command comprises data generated by a graphics data generator based on the data stored in the inverted polygon data memory and the polygon data memory. An image including models of the inverted polygon data as being reflected on the water surface is displayed in real-time in a three-dimensional game space on a display monitor so as to be quickly movable in response to movement of the viewpoint of a game character that is also displayed in the three-dimensional game space.

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Kobe, Japan

Mitsuhiro Nomi