Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Yusuke Kitakaze

Masahiko Kami

Kazutaka Kubota

Tadanobu Otaki

Jiro Hotta

Keina Kanisawa

Yasuyuki Nagatomo

Koji Makino

Takashi Uchiyama

Satoshi Ueda

Yoshihisa Inoue

Nobuhiro Goto

Satoshi Uchiyama

Hajime Takahama

Naoki Takahashi

Toyofumi Kitano

Hideaki Minoda

Yuuki Harano

In a fee collection system a game machine as a charge collective apparatus is provided with a reader terminal for obtaining predetermined identification information from a card, and a reader control unit for outputting to a control board a signal equivalent to an output signal of a coin selector, wherein when a card ID is transmitted from the reader control unit, a management PC refers to charge setting data, determines the consumption amount of electronic money, and requests an account management server to process withdrawal of the consumption amount from an account of electronic money corresponding to the card ID. The management PC notifies the reader control unit the processing result transmitted from the account management server, and outputs to the control board a signal equivalent to the output signal of the coin selector when the withdrawal is successful.

Fee collection system by electronic money

A card ID and a consumption amount of virtual money are transmitted from a game terminal as charging-target terminal apparatus, the card ID being recorded in a card possessed by a user (step S). The server apparatus replaces the card ID with a user ID unique to each user (step S), and specifies a virtual money account managed by the server apparatus in association with the user ID. When the balance of the account is not less than the consumption amount, the consumption amount is subtracted from the balance of the account, and when the balance is less than the consumption amount, the subtraction of the consumption amount is stopped (step S). Transaction result information including information indicating whether the subtraction of consumption amount has succeeded is transmitted to the game terminal () as a response (steps S, S).

Charge payment system using virtual money

A game system includes a management apparatus and a game device. The management apparatus includes an authentication section for obtaining results of authentications using first and second identifiers that should correspond to a user. When the results of the authentications are affirmative, a validity time limit is associated with the first identifier. In addition, the game device includes a confirmatory identifier acquirer for acquiring a confirmatory identifier that should correspond to the user, and an inquiry maker for making an inquiry asking the management apparatus to check whether or not the first identifier conforming to the confirmatory identifier is stored in the management apparatus. The inquiry inquires the management apparatus to check whether or not the validity time limit corresponding to the first identifier is a time after the present time when the first identifier conforming to the confirmatory identifier is stored in the management apparatus. A permitter of the management apparatus permits execution of a service associated with the first identifier used in the inquiry when results of checks by the manager in response to the inquiry are affirmative.

Game system and management apparatus having a convenient authentication process for ensuring security

There is provided a system where usage charge of a facility can be paid by virtual money. A card ID and a consumption amount of virtual money are transmitted from a game terminal as charging-target terminal apparatus, the card ID being recorded in a card possessed by a user (step S). The server apparatus replaces the card ID with a user ID unique to each user (step S), and specifies a virtual money account managed by the server apparatus in association with the user ID. When the balance of the account is not less than the consumption amount, the consumption amount is subtracted from the balance of the account, and when the balance is less than the consumption amount, the subtraction of the consumption amount is stopped (stepS). Transaction result information including information indicating whether the subtraction of consumption amount has succeeded is transmitted to the game terminal () as a response (steps S, S).

There is provided a game system which is capable of differentiating depending on the payment method of a play fee. The game system where it is possible to pay a game play fee by selecting one payment method from a plurality of payment methods, determines the payment method which the play fee has been paid by (S), and controls the game in such a way that modification is generated depending on the payment method, on the basis of the determination result (S-S).

Game system and computer readable information storage medium storing a computer program therefor

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

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Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Kitakaze