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AssigneeKonami Corporation
InventorsMorikuni Kubo, Tsutomu Watanabe
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In a game system comprising a plurality of game machines that are different in structure from each other and that have wireless communication functions, a game can be enjoyed by the different game machines under a common playing environment using the same items. To this end, only element information related to the game executed by one game machine is transferred to another game machine in the form of a wireless signal or an infrared ray signal. The element information is representative of the items and is converted by another game machine into images representative of items corresponding to the element information. The game may be, for example, a card game which has a wide variety of cards numbered and identified by card numbers assigned thereto. The element information may include the card numbers.
A communication method for use in a game system which comprises a memory card device and a portable game machine different in structure from the memory card device;
A game system comprising a memory card device attachable to a main game machine unit and a game machine different in structure from the memory card device, the game machine comprising:
A method of carrying out communication to a first game device from a second game device, the first game device having a first memory capacity and a communication function while the second game device has another communication function and a second memory capacity greater then the first memory capacity, each of the first and the second game devices executing a common predetermined card game by using a plurality of cards, the method comprising the steps of:
A computer-readable recording medium for use in a portable game machine which has a communication function by a wireless signal, the computer-readable recording medium storing a program which executes a game, the program comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.