Patent ID: 6669566
Filing Date: 2003-12-30
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A game processing system that enables a player to play a plurality of games interrelated to each other, said game processing system comprising:a game program storage for storing a plurality of game programs for executing a plurality of types of different games interrelated to each other; a game progress data storage for storing backup data corresponding to each of the plurality of types of different games and representing the progress of each of the plurality of types of different games played; a controller for providing instructions to select and start one of the plurality of game programs stored in said game program storage, and for controlling the progress of a game corresponding to the selected game program; a processor for determining, when said controller provides the instruction to start game corresponding to the selected game program, whether game progress data is stored for another game related to the game corresponding to the selected game program, said processor being operable to change part of the selected game program based on a decision related to the presence or absence of said game progress data for another related game, said processor being operable to read the changed game program; and an image processor for carrying out image processing for the changed game program.