Game apparatus having game media controlling capabilities

Abstract

A game apparatus 10 has a game executing unit 70 for playing a game using game media and a game media holding unit 32 for temporarily holding the game media used in the game. The game apparatus 10 comprises a reception processing unit 11 for receiving input operations which are performed by a player who desires to rent game media and for outputting information representative of the number of rented game media; a replenishing processing unit 12 for processing the replenishing of the game media to the game media holding unit 32 according to the request of the player and for outputting information representative of the replenished game media; a score output unit 71 for outputting information representative of the number of game media given to the player as a score during performance of the game; a number managing unit 13 for accepting the information representative of the number of rented game media, the information representative of replenished game media and the information representative of the number of game media given to the player as a score to manage the number of game media acquired by the player in the game machine; and an adjustment processing unit 14 which responds to an instruction of adjustment to accept information representative of the number of game media possessed by the player, which is managed by the number managing unit 13 to output information representative of the number of game media to the storage medium.