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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2000
Atsushi Horigami, Tokyo-to, JP;
Shinji Morimitsu, Chofu, JP;
Tomohiro Maeyama, Koganei, JP;
Yasushi Sakano, Tokyo-to, JP;
Jun Nishizawa, Tokyo-to, JP;
Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A game system in which a plurality of characters are each respectively made to act in dependence on a schedule prescribed in correspondence to a time of a game, at a time point the game has progressed to an end point of a loop range, if a predetermined progress permission condition is met, there is permitted progress of the game ahead of the loop range. If the progress permission condition is not met, the time on the game is made to a start point of the loop range. At this time, exceptional information as part including information associated with an experience on the game by a character as an operation object is maintained in a state attained at the end point of the range, having other information restored in a state corresponding to a start point.