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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2000
Morikuni Kubo, Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Konami Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a game system comprising a plurality of game machines that are different in structure from each other and that have wireless communication functions, a game can be enjoyed by the different game machines under a common playing environment using the same items. To this end, only element information related to the game executed by one game machine is transferred to another game machine in the form of a wireless signal or an infrared ray signal. The element information is representative of the items and is converted by another game machine into images representative of items corresponding to the element information. The game may be, for example, a card game which has a wide variety of cards numbered and identified by card numbers assigned thereto. The element information may include the card numbers.