Patent ID: 8070607

Claim:
A competition game system configured to simulate a baseball game comprising at least two game apparatuses each including a manual operation section for allowing a player to perform an input operation, and a display unit for displaying an image, wherein tactical data created based on respective results of the input operations to said manual operation sections are transmitted and received between respective ones of said game apparatuses via a communication section to allow a competition game having an identical event to be progressed in each of said game apparatuses based on said transmitted and received tactical data, wherein each of said game apparatuses comprising: an action-setting means adapted, based on a result of an input operation to said manual operation section by a player, to create player-side tactical data; a transmitting/receiving control means adapted to transmit said player-side tactical data created by said action-setting means, to the at least one opponent's game apparatus, and receive opponent-side tactical data from said opponent's game apparatus, through said communication section; a determination means adapted to determine a competition result, based on said player-side tactical data, and said opponent-side tactical data received by said transmitting/receiving control means; and an image display control means adapted to display a game image onto said display unit according to said competition result determined by said determination means, wherein said determination means includes: a first storage means adapted to store a plurality of types of player's tactics and respective success probabilities of said player's tactics, in associated relation; and a second storage means adapted to store a plurality of types of opponent's tactics and respective success probabilities of said opponent's tactics, in associated relation; wherein said determination means is operable, based on a previously stored success probability of each of selected one or more of said player's tactics, and a previously stored success probability of each of selected one or more of said opponent's tactics which are received from said opponent's game apparatus by said transmitting/receiving control means, to determine a competition result in accordance with a predetermined result determination rule which is shared by said at least two game apparatuses; said image display control means is operable to display a player's character onto said display unit: and said manual operation section is operable, when said player's character is configured to simulate a pitcher, to allow a player to input, as a tactic, pitching data including at least one of a pitch type, a pitched-ball speed and a pitch location of a ball character configured to simulate a ball to be thrown by said player's character.