JP2002028013A - Toy having saving money aspect - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toy which can urge the player to save money with a fun and to purchases goods with a dream for people who are negative for both money-saving and consuming in a present economic recession, unlike excessive games with audios and visuals, which games cause young people to lose the respect for lives and the values for money, and which toy can also help businesses to acquire customers and to activate themselves. SOLUTION: The toy has a saving box with a monitor and indicates the money necessary to grow a pet through a visual or audio signal. If the player put the money of this amount, the pet condition changes and is shown through a visual or audio signal. In this way, the player can save money while enjoying the game. Obtained by adding the money-saving aspect to a saving box, which has been used as rather an ornament, and to entertaining goods (a personal computer, a game software, a cellular phone, or the like) through a monitor, this toy helps money-saving, which is difficult by themselves.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[Prior Art] There has been a piggy bank for a long time, but it was difficult to connect to savings even if it was used as an ornament and was named as a piggy bank.

[0002] In addition, it is important for a screen-type toy via a TV game or a personal computer to be only entertainment, and the contents are complicated and radical, which leads to a desire to purchase. As a result, the consciousness of the player is out of reality,
Young people have also become less guilty and more prone to escapism, and it is undeniable that toys may be involved in violent crimes among young people. It was hoped that the booming games like Tamagotchi would lead to the cultivation of love for living animals, but this was a surprise. This has led to the disregard for life and even the illusion that pets can be easily raised by anyone.

[0003] The boom in the breeding game has subsequently caused a small animal boom that can be kept in apartments. When they are raised, they realize that small animals have a short lifespan of several years, but their breeding costs are high except for their entire life. This is because they spend a little at a time, so they don't feel burdened at that time. If you can save your pet for a small but reasonable cost, assuming you have a pet, you can actually save a good amount. But the reality is that trying to do it in a piggy bank is irresistible.

[0004] On the other hand, it is a matter of course that it is natural to be debited through a passbook or a card, as symbolized by a financial institution, in terms of savings. It's an uninteresting savings.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

[0005] In young people, toys such as TV games and game software tend to pursue the reality, and there are sufficient factors for fostering a distorted mind, such as immersion in a fantasy world and a shift in money sense. Therefore, it is necessary for toys that are causing a modern boom to appear in a direction that brings out a sense of responsibility and awareness. Assuming that the toy has a content of a training game, the toy presents the necessary expenses, such as the cost of feeding the pet and the cost of treating a disease, to the toy through the pet on the screen. Then, the game is advanced by the player performing (saving) the contents. And you will actually save money. Many children abandoned their previous training games. Because there was no factor in his own pain (such as cutting his pocket money a little and feeding) and effort. He bred the pets on the screen without any sorrow, as they grew up at their own pace, in time and at their own pace.
If you incorporate savings into it, the fact that you did not feed (and did not pay for food) is the direct cause of your pet's death. It is more like a simulated pet experience, and you will know the difficulty of having a real pet.

The reason why the piggy bank has always been a figurine-like feeling is that the purpose and motive for the future, which are common in modern people, are lacking. If there were no dreams, no purpose, no pleasure when making money, they had to exist as figurines.

The same can be said for financial institutions. Even financial institutions, etc., have a dry taste with only numbers, even when saving and saving. Furthermore, if you ask for card payment or bankbook withdrawal, the negative image of <decrease> is fixed. Such a concept could be wiped out. It is actually possible to use the same savings through toys to introduce a method that allows individuals and families to save with fun and goals.

[0008]

Means for Solving the Problems As a means for solving the above problems, if an easy-to-understand one is intentionally shaped, an image screen can be integrated into an arbitrary container (in this case, a piggy bank). The contents and instructions are presented from the (or connected) toy. When the player performs them (puts money in the piggy bank), the images and sounds react. The contents to be performed may be limited to those having a saving property, or some of the presented contents may be saving contents.

[0009] In the above description, when the presented contents having a saving property are performed, the contents are put in a container. However, when the place where the training game is provided is performed through communication of a mobile phone or a personal computer, the above-mentioned case is considered. Another way to accomplish this is to save through financial institutions. In such a case, the name may be called "deposit and saving", or the name may be changed to card payment, withdrawal, etc., but the name is not particular. .

[0010] If such a toy is used by a card company with a strong image of "payment / withdrawal", it is possible to newly have a positive image such as savings while paying for the card. Also, if a company or the like sets its contents in a toy using its own character and gives it to the customer, it will eventually become a down payment for purchasing its own product from the sense of game.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS As an example of a screen integrated with a container,
A toy with the content of [Keep a dog] will be described. From the screen attached to an arbitrary box, the contents that are often found in homes that have dogs --- "Dog food canning fee -180
Yen, "I bought a new slipper because I bite the slipper-
Items such as "600 yen", "vaccination cost-3000 yen", etc. are presented together with the image of the dog. Then, when the presented content "dog food canning fee-180 yen" is put in an arbitrary box, a video (a fat dog eating and eating with a mokumoku) and a sound indicating that the content has been digested are expressed.

[0012] As another example, here, an example will be given with the content of "repairing a broken car" for a little expensive saving of an adult. A broken car is presented as a picture via a personal computer, making it very difficult to ride. On the other hand, "10X10 cm scratch repair-2500 yen""Painting installment payment-Every Monday payment 1
"500 yen each". If the player accepts the price for the presented content, the amount is actually withdrawn from the financial institution. Then, the broken car is repaired by the amount of the debited money presented in the content, and the state in which the car becomes a rideable car with each turn is represented by images and sounds.

As another example, the same can be applied to a communication device such as a mobile phone. A training game is provided with a price as low as one call. Telephone companies or corporations provide interesting content such as [get bad pets for adoption] through mobile phones. Requests are sent to the owner's mobile phone as e-mail with video and sound, such as "feed fee 50 yen" and "stationery fee 100 yen", and if the owner approves the amount, the amount is charged like a telephone fee, For example, a system that is deducted from financial institutions.

[0014]

[Effects of the Invention] Attachment boils because the real money is paid and raised compared to the conventional case where a pet is simply kept in a mobile phone. At present, mobile phones provide information by paying a monthly membership fee and deliver ringtones, but their popularity is reaching their limits. Pets are “trained” or “adopted”
It would be a great pleasure to raise them as "schools" and watch them grow in the shadows and return to their owners' mobile phones someday. After that, when the power is turned on, the pet will appear, appear on the phone when notifying the time, the pet will sing and teach the incoming call, `` ○○
If you set a function that calls you by your personal name, "That's a phone call," it will definitely cause a boom in OLs and high school girls. Also, if the delivery side provides a situation in which the pet leaves the house after a while, such as "advertising expenses for dog hunting-300 yen", even if savings suddenly occur, young people It will fall within an acceptable range with unique jokes. Although it is like a play, it is actually a savings, it is used for the down payment discount of the telephone bill,
In addition, if the side that provided those contents is a company, it can be used for preferential treatment and savings of the company.
In this way, it is a toy that allows you to enjoy the fact that savings accompany play.

When actually buying a car, by using a toy such as [repair a broken car] shown in one example,
Down payments that cannot be saved by yourself can be steadily accumulated while dreaming through toys. Also, the idea is that if you use this toy to buy items that are expensive for students such as word processors, start with a blank screen and dream to buy a word processor in the future, at your own pace. It is possible to have a leisurely period of saving. For example, if you save 300 yen, one A button on the keyboard will appear as an image with the result "I got the A button on the keyboard". In this way, every time you save, it will be encouraging to see what you can buy now. It will be fun to see how much you have saved to get the product.

In addition, in foreign countries, children earn money by working as a baby sitter, who works as a babysitter for their neighbor's baby and receives an hourly wage, so that they do not depend on their parents for their money from an early age. Let me. However, there is no such part-time job in Japan. It is said that Japanese children are not self-reliant because they do not have the value of money for work and they can afford to buy them if their parents ask. I can nod if I look at these differences in the environment. That's why we use toys with savings at home. If the child performs what the parent has set for the toy (such as an errand), the parent puts the money in a container. Instead of buying what your child was hunting for, get it through their own labor and effort.
As the amount of savings increases, the images and sounds express the situation in which the item you were looking for is coming soon, and the images and sounds that support the children's efforts are expressed by images and sounds. The child will then find out how hard it is to get money and what it is worth.
It should be considered much more important than the one given by the parents, and should be good for emotional education.

For images and sounds, animals and plants or imaginary creatures may be used. Also, money and goods such as horse racing horse training and investment, car purchase, house construction and interior replacement, travel, game, etc. may be used. All contents can be presented. This is because the main purpose of this toy is to lead to substantial savings. In terms of money, if you raise a game such as [Goldfish caught in the night shop] etc., if you have a small amount of savings such as "bait / miniko-20 yen", and if it is a toy for adults,
It calls the “room change” and presents the tattered room on the initial screen, and then renovates it to the room you want. He decides the color and shape by himself, such as "I put a blue curtain-4000 yen", and coordinates the fictitious room with an amount that can afford my life. You can make substantial savings while playing with the virtual space, and if you notice, it is possible to save enough money to remodel the actual room. The savings period also says, "What do you grow
Do you want to do it?) ”, It is a toy that can be used for any period, covers all ages depending on the content, and can be used for both small and large savings.

Also, as described above, if this toy is used for corporate advertising, it is also characteristic that a company of any type of business can present its contents. For example, a travel agency would include "transit fares", "souvenir bills", "station bills", and "photo processing bills" in the content presentation as "travel to Kyushu", etc. While doing its job, you can save sometime, save the actual travel expenses, and offer it as a toy that is a savings bank. Also, for couples without children, even life insurance companies and banks can use this toy with the same feeling as a one-year term deposit. With a toy called [If there are children in the first grade of elementary school ...], how much expense is required if there are children,
"00 yen", "uniform uniform 40000 yen", etc. are presented, and by performing them, savings are linked. If public institutions and private companies work on this toy, it will emphasize the pleasure of pushing out their mascot characters as PR and promoting them on the screen. The topicality is sufficient, the familiarity with the company and the name recognition will increase, and new customers should be expected for the desire for toys.

As described above, the present toy incorporates real savings into a savings box that has been conventionally felt as a figurine or an amusement game played through a screen, and enables a saving to be frustrated by one person. It is a toy that can be enjoyed by children and adults, including housewives who have put coins in empty bottles.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. The contents are presented through a screen and sound integrated or connected to an arbitrary-shaped container, and by executing the contents, the number of gold and goods to be saved is increased or decreased. Toys. 2. A toy whose main purpose is to increase or decrease the amount of money or goods to be saved by performing the contents presented through the screen or sound of a communication device. 3. A toy comprising the combination of claim 1 and claim 2.