Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Konami Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Uchiyama

Katsunori Okita

Hiroyuki Muraki

Yoshihisa Inoue

Masakazu Shibamiya

Naoki Takahashi

Daisuke Chiba

Tomohisa Tanaka

Taichi Takeuchi

Hideki Kotani

Yoshitaka Adachi

Yoshitsugu Isetani

Hirofumi Mamitsu

Yusuke Kitakaze

Tetsuya Wada

Hiroyasu Machiguchi

Atsushi Yamazaki

Masahiro Moriyama

Takahiro Hiraoka

Manabu Akita

Yoshikazu Matsui

Takashi Honda

A game system is provided with a communication mode using communication and a task mode in which a player selects one task from a plurality of tasks (operations), and plays a game with an aim to achieve the task, and operates operation management dataso that it is changed by following a predetermined condition whether the status of task is permission or forbiddance. The game system allows the player to select at least one task achieved by the player, and communicates datain association with the game-play of communication mode between the game apparatuses, the databeing for permitting the selection of task specified by each player. And, the game system operates the operation management dataso that the selection of task corresponding to the datareceived gets permitted.

Game system, and game apparatus and a storage medium storing a game program for said game apparatus

A video game machine includes a monitor which permits three-dimensional viewing, a virtual camera controller which selectively provides on-screen presentation in 2D display mode in which two virtual cameras for capturing images are matched with each other and in 3D display mode in which the two virtual cameras are set to achieve a prescribed distance therebetween, an image display controller which generates a 3D image presented on the monitor from image data acquired by the two virtual cameras, a display mode switching processor which repositions the two virtual cameras from the positional relationship in one display mode to the positional relationship in the other in a stepwise fashion. Switching between the 2D and 3D display modes is smoothened and stimulation of a player's eyes or brain caused by a sudden change between states with or without stereoscopic effect is suppressed.

Video game machine, gaming image display control method and display mode switching control method

Disclosed is a game system capable of introducing a distinctive feature into each of a processing of designating offensive and defensive locations and a processing of determining a competition result so as to provide a game having a high level of playability. The game system comprises a plurality of game apparatuses each equipped with a touch paneland a monitor, and connected to each other via a network. Each of the game apparatuses includes an image display control sectionadapted to display a strike zone image (SZ image) on the monitor, and a setup sectionadapted, based on manipulation information accepted from the touch panel, to set up a pitch location (or swing location) within the SZ image, and set up a shape of a first mark image on the basis of the setup location. The image display control sectionis also adapted to display the first mark image on the SZ image in a superimposed manner, and, after completion of the setup processing by the setup section, display, onto the SZ image, a second mark image for the swing location (or pitch location) which is received from an opponent's game apparatus. The game apparatus further includes a batting result-setting sectionadapted to set a batting result depending on a degree of overlapping between the first and second mark images.

Game apparatus, game system and game progression control method

The game system includes a plurality of game machines and at least one server device, in which the server device includes: an acquiring means for, among a predetermined number of character cards each associating a game character with an ability value indicating an ability in fighting motion, acquiring use information on the type of a character card presently used in a two-person game for each game; a conversion-value calculating means for calculating a conversion value as result data for narrowing the difference of the ability values corresponding to the types of character cards according to the type of the character card depending upon the amount of the acquired use information; and a transmitting means for associating the conversion value according to the type of the character card with each character card and transmitting the conversion value to each game machine.

Game system and game execution managing method

A competition game system designed such that tactical data created based on respective results of input operations to manual operation sections of two game apparatuses are transmitted and received between the game apparatuses to allow a competition game having an identical event to be progressed in each of the game apparatuses based on the transmitted and received tactical data. Each of the game apparatuses comprises an action-setting sectionadapted to create player-side tactical data corresponding to a content of an input operation from the manual operation sectionA, a communication control sectionadapted to transmit the player-side tactical data created by the action-setting section, to the opponent's game apparatus, and receive opponent-side tactical data from the opponent's game apparatus, through a communication section, a determination sectionadapted to determine a competition result, based on the player-side and opponent-side tactical data, and an image display control sectionadapted to display a game image onto a display unitaccording to the determined competition result. The competition game system of the present invention makes it possible to efficiently achieve a competition game while exchanging minimum data between a plurality of game apparatuses having the same configuration, without setting a master-servant relationship to the game apparatuses.

Competition game system and game apparatus

A moving object restorer is provided with a connecting cord having one end held at a fixed position and the other end connected with a moving object, a guiding member fixedly provided between the moving object and the fixed position for guiding the connecting cord, a regulator movably provided between the guiding member and the fixed position and having a holder portion for holding the connecting cord slidably. The regulator is movable between a first position for allowing the moving object to be moved and a second position for holding the moving object in a restored position.

Moving object restorer

Game machine

A multidirectional switch is provided with a lever, a lever support assembly for supporting the lever in such a way that it can be slanted in directions of first and second axes intersecting each other, an automatic lever reset mechanism for causing the lever to automatically return from its slant position to neutral position, a retainer for retaining the lever in a position slanted in the second axis direction against restoration force exerted by the automatic lever reset mechanism, and a sensor of which sensing elements are arranged at positions corresponding to individual slant positions of the lever. The multidirectional switch provides different types of information depending on directions in which the lever is slanted.

Multidirectional switch and a driving game machine using the same

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Kobe, Japan

Satoshi Uchiyama