Patent ID: 6839435

Claim:
A ranking display method for a game machine wherein a server is connected to a communication line, score ranking information of said game machine is provided to a client accessing to said server through said communication line, said server comprising steps of: accepting a score of the game machine and an electronic mail address in said server; storing the accepted score and electronic mail address in said server; adding the received score into the ranking information; detecting a score making a change in ranking by the addition; and transmitting a message showing occurrence of a change by electronic mail to an a mail address shown by the electronic mail address corresponding to the score making the change in ranking; wherein said transmitting comprises a step for selecting a mail address from the stored mail addresses corresponding to the detected score to obtain at least one electronic mail address to be used in said transmitting and said message is not transmitted to the mail addresses in which the corresponding scores stored do not make the change in ranking.