Patent ID: 6482092
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
An image-display game system in which at least two image-display game devices are structured for data communications therebetween,the image-display game devices each comprise: a program store in which a game program involving characters captured during the course of the game is stored; a temporary store including, at least, a property data storage region where property data varied in type is stored for characters captured during the course of said game, a help data storage region where data for helping the player during game play is stored, and an ID data storage region where ID data for identifying a player is stored; at least one control member actuated by the player for controlling, at least, an operation of capturing characters and an operation of performing data communications with another player; a communications link for communicating with another player's image-display game device; a processor for carrying out, under the control of said program, image processing to change a displayed image in response to said at least one control member, and changing said property data based on the state of said at least one control member to write the data in the storage region corresponding to said temporary store; and a display for displaying a result obtained through the processing carried out by said processor, wherein, said game program generates, when one of said image-display game devices and the other of said image-display game devices are made data communicable by said communications link, and when data communications is selected by said at least one control member, in response to said ID data transferred from one image-display game device to the other image-display game device, the help data processed by said processor of the other image-display game device based on the transferred ID data.