JP2001070651A - Communication method, game system and information transmission method between game machines of different kinds - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid encounter with a same quiz in repeated play by providing an information storing part for storing personal data, responses to quizzes, or the like about plural registrants, and presenting quizzes about personal data and responses of stored registrants in this information storing part. SOLUTION: In starting a game with coin input, player's nickname and sexuality are sequentially inputted at an operation inputting part 3. Several teams are displayed on a display 2 as teams of from ten to twenty members including players stored in an information storing part 11 and the other sex registrants, and the player selects one team among them. The face photograph, nickname, age and message of each registrant of the team are displayed by this team selection, and one person is selected out of them. After the decision of the selected person, the player himself or herself is photographed. A quiz asking what response is made to a quiz by the selected person is presented, and the answer follows. Thus, the game proceeds.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game apparatus provided with a game operation unit including a quiz-type game program and a display unit for displaying a quiz to a player.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a quiz-type game apparatus, general quizzes, for example, names of capitals of the world, names of actors who starred in movies, and the like are displayed one after another on a display as a display unit. There is a game device in which a player competes for a score obtained by a correct answer within a predetermined time, or a path to be taken appears every time the player answers a quiz correctly, and competes for reaching a destination before a game over.

[0003] Such a game device has various contents, but a large number of quizzes are prepared in advance, and several questions are randomly selected during play. And the answer to the quiz itself is 1
Most of them were invariant.

[0004]

However, the above-mentioned conventional quiz-type game apparatus has a problem in that the same quiz may be given when played a plurality of times. In order to solve such a problem, it is conceivable to prepare an infinite number of quizzes so as not to give the same quiz, or to replace the quiz periodically, but it is actually difficult to perform the quiz. Therefore, in a conventional quiz-type game apparatus, encountering the same quiz is inevitable due to the configuration in which questions are selected at random.

An object of the present invention is to provide a game apparatus including a quiz-type game in which it is difficult to encounter the same quiz even if the player plays the game many times.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention comprises a game operation section including a quiz-type game program and the like, and a display section for displaying a quiz to a player. The game device includes a quiz storage unit that stores a plurality of quizzes, and an information storage unit that stores personal data of a plurality of registrants, answers to the quizzes, and the like, wherein the game calculation unit stores the information in the information storage unit. The quiz about the personal data of the registered registrant and the answer is given.

The present invention is effective when a photographing means for photographing a player is provided, and an image photographed by the photographing means is stored in the information storage unit as a part of personal data. Further, the present invention is effective when the player selectively becomes a registrant in the information storage unit and stores personal data, quiz answers, and the like.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a game device according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, a game apparatus main body 1 has a display 2 disposed as a display section at the upper center thereof, and an operation input section 3 operated by a player in front of the display 2.
Is provided. The operation input unit 3 includes an operation lever 4 for selecting a quiz answer and taking a picture as an input means.
And an operation button 5 are provided. In this case, the operation lever 4 and the operation button 5 are used so that two players can play at the same time.
Are provided in two sets. In addition, the code | symbol 6 is a coin insertion part,
Reference numeral 7 denotes a print paper discharge port.

Although not shown, a camera as a photographing means for photographing a player, a printing means for printing a game result and a photographed image, and a game control unit in which a game program is stored are provided in the game machine body 1. FIG. 2 is a system block diagram of the control unit of the game device.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 10 denotes a game calculation unit for controlling the game apparatus, 11 denotes an information storage unit for storing player information, and 12 denotes a quiz storage unit for storing a plurality of, for example, about 50 quizzes. Yes, quiz storage unit 12
The quizzes stored in are the hobbies, preferences,
This is a personal question that asks you what to do when you encounter a certain situation. It contains a personality judgment factor and does not include an invariable quiz with one answer. The information storage unit 11 has an image storage unit 11A that stores images captured by the camera 13, and a data storage unit 11B that stores data such as the player's age, nickname, and answers to quizzes. In this information storage unit 11,
At all times, a large number of registrants' images, nicknames, gender, age personal data, answers to quizzes, and registrant messages are stored.

Next, an example of the progress of the game controlled by the game calculation section 10 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When a predetermined coin is inserted into the coin insertion slot 6, the game is started. First, a selection screen (not shown) for selecting the number of players to be played is displayed on the display 2, and a selection is made between single play and two play. In the case of two play, the same or the same couple is selected (step 1). ). In the selection of step 1, in the case of one person or two persons of the same sex, a nickname is input one by one within a predetermined number of characters (step 2), and further, a gender is input (step 3). Next, several teams, for example, two or three teams, are introduced via the display 2 with the players and registrants of the opposite sex stored in the information storage unit 11 as teams of more than ten people, and the player is identified as one of them. Select a team (step 4). When displaying a team, only the face photos of all the teams are displayed in a matrix, but when a team is selected, the face photo, nickname, age, and message for each of the registrants of the team are displayed. One of them is displayed and selected (step 5). At this time, if about 15 people are registered in one team, hide the face photo of only a few people, and one of them will include the person who is the most popular in the team, and the game characteristics will be enhanced. More fun. In the following description, the registrant selected by the player in step 5 is referred to as a selector.

[0013] When the selector is determined in this way, a photograph of the player himself is taken (step 6). When the photographing is completed, a quiz asking the selector what kind of answer the quiz is given is given, and the player answers it (step 7). The quiz at this time is, for example,
"I found a junior of a company you loved drinking happily with a man from your rival company without telling you. What do you do then?" He dislikes dispensing after the next day.Shock! But do the same as usual the next day. I don't care if it's a coincidence. I'll look over if I'm overturned. I'm shocked and I have to give up if I can't help. " Therefore, the player infers how he or she answered from the photograph of the face of the selector, the data or the message, and gives the answer. Accordingly, unlike the conventional quiz-type game machine, the same quiz is virtually not given, and a completely new quiz in which a face is deduced from an impression, a message, or the like can be provided. In addition, there is no need to prepare a large number of quizzes as a base or to replenish the quizzes regularly.

When the quiz is answered in this way, a personal quiz is given to the player, and the player answers the quiz (step 8). Next, a mini-game is performed (step 9), and the actual game is completed.
It just waits for the game result consisting of compatibility with the chooser. Before this result is obtained, it is determined whether or not the registrant has room (step 10). If there is room, the registration is asked (step 11). At this time, if registration is desired, the process proceeds to the flowchart of FIG. If you do not want to register or if there is no room for registrants, display 2
The result is announced (step 12), and the result is printed and discharged from the print discharge port 6 (step 13).

In step 11 described above, if registration is desired, as shown in FIG. 4, the age of the player is entered (step 14), and two questions are randomly selected from the quizzes stored in the quiz storage section and answered. (Step 15). Next, a message of the player is input (step 16). At this time, one of the prescribed messages prepared in advance can be selected, and an original message can be input (step 17).
These pieces of information are stored in the information storage unit, and become a registrant for a player who plays thereafter (step 1).
8) Return to step 12 in FIG. In this manner, if the player becomes a registrant and is selected as a selector, which answer has been given to the quiz in step 15 is given as a quiz.

[0016] With such a configuration, the registrants can be automatically replaced and replenished by regularly creating vacancies for the registrants, so that the novelty of the game is always maintained and the player is challenged again. Can motivate you to do so.

Although the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be variously modified. For example, in the above-described embodiment, a photograph taken by the photographing unit is used as an image, but an illustration or a portrait based on the photographed image may be used.

If the blood type and the constellation name of the constellation are stored in the player's data, these factors can be added to the compatibility diagnosis.

[0019]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the data of the registrants and the answers to the quizzes are questioned, there is no possibility that the same problem will be solved without preparing a large number of quizzes.
It is possible to provide an unprecedented game device in which the answer is deduced from the registrant's facial expression and data. .

According to the second and third aspects of the present invention, the player himself can be a registrant, so that the novelty of the quiz can be easily maintained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a game device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control unit of the game device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a game operation.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation at the time of registration.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game device main body 2 Display 10 Game operation part 11 Information storage part 12 Quiz storage part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A game device comprising: a game operation unit including a game program in a quiz format; and a display unit for displaying a quiz or the like to a player; a quiz storage unit for storing a plurality of quizzes; An information storage unit that stores personal data of a plurality of registrants, answers to quizzes, and the like, wherein the game calculation unit sets a quiz on the registrant's personal data and answers stored in the information storage unit A game device characterized by the above-mentioned. 2. The game device according to claim 1, wherein
A game device comprising: a photographing means for photographing a player, wherein an image photographed by the photographing means is stored in the information storage unit as a part of personal data. 3. The game device according to claim 1, wherein the information storage section stores personal data, a quiz answer, and the like, wherein the player selectively becomes a registrant. Game equipment.