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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2001
Kazuhiro Namba, Amagasaki, JP;
Norio Nakayama, Osaka, JP;
Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka, Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A baseball game is made realizable in an environment difficult to achieve with a dedicated game apparatus and a joy stick for such an apparatus. When a player team is at bat, the positioning point of the bat of a batter character relative to a ball character and the batting action of the batter character are determined by manipulating a mouse while, when the player team is in the field, the pitching action and the pitch course for the ball character displayed moving from a pitcher character toward the batter character are determined by manipulating the mouse and upon the end of the game, the particulars of the game results and the particulars of the batting results and pitching results of the player team are uploaded to a recording unit in a server system connected via a network to computers