Patent ID: 8979656
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A communication game system, configured with at least three terminal devices which carry out communication between each other, in which a user of each terminal device implements a game by alternately carrying out a prescribed game input for a game progression, each of the at least three terminal devices comprising: the processor of a specified terminal device of the at least three terminal devices performs further operations comprising: when it is determined that it is the turn of the cut off terminal device to carry out the game input, the specified terminal device carries out a substitute game input for the cut off terminal device, transmits substitute input information relating to the substitute game input to the non-specified terminal devices, apart from the cut off terminal device, and further implements the game in accordance with the substitute game input, each of the non-specified terminal devices, apart from the cut off terminal device, receives the substitute input information, and further implements the game in accordance with the substitute input information, and when the specified terminal device determines that the return condition exists with the cut off terminal device, the specified terminal device automatically retrieves, from a storage in the specified terminal device, information indicating the progress condition of the game at a point at which the cut off condition was determined to exist, automatically sends the retrieved information to the cut off terminal device, and restarts the game from a point at which the cut off condition is determined to exist, even after the game is further implemented in accordance with the substitute game input.