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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2008
Nobuhiro Goto, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Kusuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Okuaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Uchiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuhiro Goto, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Kusuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Okuaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Uchiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is to be capable of carrying out an unusual performance beyond type of machine. The present game apparatus includes: two or more types of game apparatuses having hardware configurations different from each other, each of the game apparatuses including a performance unit for carrying out a performance visually and audibly appealing to a player, and a game progress control unit for controlling game progress and performing game performance control according to the game progress by controlling the performance unit; and a total performance processing apparatus for executing a process for carrying out a total performance in the two or more types of game apparatuses by using the performance unit provided in each of the two or more types of game apparatuses. The total performance processing apparatus and the two or more types of game apparatuses are connected and capable of communicating with each other. The total performance processing apparatus includes a control command transmitting unit for transmitting a total performance control command for carrying out the total performance at a predetermined total performance timing to each of the two or more types of game apparatuses. Each of the two or more types of game apparatuses includes a total performance control unit for controlling the performance unit according to the total performance control command from the total performance processing apparatus and executing total performance control for carrying out a performance assuming part of the total performance at the predetermined total performance timing.