Trading cards interactive with electronic game machine and game system

Trading cards associated with an electronic game machine including an external information reading means for reading data recorded on the trading cards, a processing means for processing the data read by the external information reading means, and an image display means for displaying an image based on a processing result by said processing means, wherein

• said trading cards includes at least one rule card and a plurality of character cards,
• each of said plurality of character cards is used for playing an electronic game using the character cards, and is formed with
• a first data recording area recorded in a mechanically readable manner with different kinds of parameters specific to the character on one main surface thereof, and
• a first visual information recording area in which identifying information for identifying a kind of the character card and character information for causing collecting inclination are recorded in a visually recognizable manner on at least any one of said one main surface and other main surface,
• said rule card is formed with
• a second data recording area, on one main surface thereof, in which data for determining a rule of a game utilizing said trading cards is recorded in a manner that the same is mechanically readable by said external information reading means, and
• a third data recording area, on the main surface formed with said second data recording area, in which setting data for setting a kind of parameter data to be read from among plurality of kinds of character specific parameter data recorded in said first data recording area of said character card prior to start of a game utilizing said trading cards is recorded in a manner that the same is mechanically readable by said external information reading means, whereby
• an interactive game is playable by making said external information reading means read said at least one rule card and said plurality of character cards.

A game system for performing an interactive game associated of trading cards with an electronic game machine utilizing at least one rule card and a plurality of character cards, wherein

• each of said plurality of character cards is used for playing an electronic game using the character cards, and is formed with
• a first data recording area recorded in a mechanically readable manner with character specific parameter data on one main surface thereof, and
• a first visual information recording area in which identifying information for identifying a kind of the character card and character information for causing collecting inclination are recorded in a visually recognizable manner on at least any one of said one main surface and other main surface, wherein
• said rule card is, on one main surface thereof, formed with a second data recording area in which rule data for determining a rule of a game utilizing said trading cards is recorded in a manner that the same is mechanically readable by said external information reading means,
• said electronic game machine includes
• the external information reading means for reading the parameter data recorded in said first data recording area of said each character card and the rule data recorded in the said second data recording area of said rule card,
• a program data storage means for storing program data,
• a processing means for processing each of the data read by said external information reading means according to said program data, and
• a display means for displaying an image based on a processing result of said processing means, wherein
• a process of said processing means makes said external information reading means read said at least one rule card and said plurality of character cards, so that said processing means makes said display means display game image data generated based on the rule data recorded on the rule card by utilizing the parameter data stored in said character card.