GAME MEDIUM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• Main Authors: OKAYAMA KYOHEI, HIEDA YOSHINORI, MATSUZAKI TAKESHI, AZUMA CHIE, TAKAHAMA TAKAYASU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.01.2012
• Subjects: AMUSEMENTS; CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HUMAN NECESSITIES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; SPORTS; VIDEO GAMES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a non-member player to replay on a game machine at a dispensing rate different from that for the number of reserved balls associated with a recording medium, as carry-over replay.SOLUTION: The game medium management system is configured to store the number of reserved balls that shows the number of game media reserved by the player, in association with an identifier of the recording medium for each dispensing rate of the game media, to acquire the identifier of the recording medium for each machine, to acquire the number of reserved balls stored based on the acquired identifier of the recording medium for each machine, to allow each machine to dispense game media based on the acquired number of reserved balls, and to issue a carry-over instruction to dispense the game media based on the number of reserved balls corresponding to the other dispensing rate when the number of reserved balls corresponding to the dispensing rate of each machine does not reach the predetermined number of balls to be dispensed and meets predetermined conditions.