Sega Enterprises, Ltd.

Nec Mobile Communications, Ltd.

Comsys Corporation

Shunichi Shoji

Atsushi Kitahara

Yugo Ohno

A television or video game data reception apparatus receives a data signal of television games transmitted from a base station in a wireless manner or through wire on a local station side so that the received data signal is used to play a game. The reception apparatus is provided, in addition to a game operation memory for storing a data signal of a predetermined game, a save memory for storing a predetermined state of a game, for example, at the time of termination of the game. The save memory is write protected when the save memory does not perform save operation so that for example when a game is terminated in the midway thereof, the data of the state at that termination can be saved in accordance with necessity.

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Yokohama, Japan

Shunichi Shoji