Patent ID: 7384340

Claim:
Trading cards used interactively with an electronic game machine including an external information reader which reads data recorded on the trading cards, a processor which processes the data read by the external information reader, and an image display which displays an image based on a processing result by said processor, wherein said trading cards includes at least one rule card and a plurality of character cards, each of said plurality of character cards is used for playing an electronic game using the character cards, and is formed with: a first data recording area recorded in a machine-readable manner with character specific parameter data on one main surface thereof, and a first visual information recording area in which identifying information identifying a kind of the character card and character information are recorded in a visually recognizable manner on at least one of said one main surface and other main surface, said rule card is formed, on one main surface thereof, with a second data recording area in which rule program data for programming a rule of the game utilizing said trading cards is recorded in a manner that the same is machine-readable by said external information reader, whereby an interactive game is playable by making said external information reader read said at least one rule card and said plurality of character cards.