Music game machine with interactive second game device
AssigneeKonami Corporation
InventorsYasushi Kawasaki, Sadaharu Katori
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AssigneeKonami Corporation
InventorsYasushi Kawasaki, Sadaharu Katori
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In a musical game system, there is a corresponding relationship between a game executed in a main body game device and a game executed in a portable game device functioning as an auxiliary memory apparatus of the main body game device. Data for music reproduction for reproducing a plurality of tunes and timing data specifying a series of manipulations of input apparatus provided in correspondence with the plurality of tunes are stored in memory apparatus of first and second game devices. In the games of each game device, a tune is selected from the plurality of tunes, a series of manipulations of the input apparatus based on the timing data corresponding to the selected tune is displayed to the player, and the selected tune is reproduced based on the data for music reproduction corresponding to the selected tune. Information corresponding to the progression of the game executed in the first game device is stored in the memory apparatus of the second game device, and the range of the selectable tunes in the second game device is set based on the information stored in the memory apparatus.
A game system comprising:
A computer-readable memory medium capable of use in a game system comprising first and second game devices, said second game device comprising memory device for save which allows said second game device to function as an auxiliary memory apparatus of said first game device, the memory medium storing a program for game for executing predetermined games provided in correspondence with music in said first and second game devices by using computers of said first and second game devices, and a data group for game which is needed to execute the program for game;
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