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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2004
Tomohiro Shinoda, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Shinoda, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A gaming machine uses a trading card. The trading cardstores character data concerning a character and has a surface printed with a detail of the character data. A trading card handling devicewrites changed character data into the trading cardin response to a change in character data according to a state of proceeding with a game. A printing deviceprints detail of the changed character data onto the surface of the trading card. A heating deviceis for erasing the detail of the character data printed previously at the time of printing. A player can grasp details of character data stored in the trading card and changes thereof without depending on the gaming machine to read the trading card.