Gaming system and typing game apparatus

Abstract

To provide a typing game apparatus which can attract public interest in the typing game apparatus and which enables the display of a commercial advertisement and can thus increase spectator's willingness to buy a commercial product related to the commercial advertisement, and a gaming system using the typing game apparatus. Song data and advertisement data are distributed to a typing game apparatus 1 from a server 80 via a game communication section 25, and are stored in a song data storage area 20a and an advertisement data storage area 20b, respectively. When no typing game is being executed, a music advertisement or a commercial advertisement in a demonstration play of the typing game is performed based on the song data or the advertisement data. On this occasion, based on LED emission pattern data and keyboard emission pattern data, which are included in the song data and the advertisement data, the emission modes of an external illumination LED 6 and a keyboard 3 are controlled to perform the effect of the music advertisement or the commercial advertisement.

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