KR20020055498A - Control system and method for demanding on game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A game player controlling system and method is provided to offer a bonus point at a game fee payment card, inserted into a game player, according to a game result, and to enable a user to pay for a game fee by the bonus point at the next game so that it can induce an interest from the user. CONSTITUTION: The method comprises steps of a user inserting a game fee payment card at a game player(S110), the game player checking if the game fee payment card is effective(S120), the game player displaying an error message on a display if the card is not effective or the game player cannot read the card(S125), the game player displaying a remaining amount of money stored at the payment card if the card is effective, then the user playing a game with the game player, and the game player transmitting game result data to a central controller if the game is finished(S130), the central controller analyzing the game result data, and transmitting a corresponding bonus point to the game player(S140), and the game player recording the transmitted bonus point at the payment card(S150).

Description

Game system charging control system and method {CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEMANDING ON GAME MACHINE}

The present invention relates to a game machine billing control system and method, and to a game machine billing control system and method that enables to provide a bonus according to the game cost processing and game results for a plurality of game machines.

When a player wants to play a game in a game room, the player had to put a coin corresponding to the game fee into the game machine. If there was no coin, the game was forced to change the bill into a coin through a coin exchanger.

As a solution to this, a game player may purchase a magnetic card instead of coins or banknotes, and the player may insert the magnetic card into the card reader of the game machine to play the game as much as the amount of information recorded on the magnetic card.

However, the above method of charging the game fee by attaching a card reader to the game machine is merely replacing the game fee charge with a magnetic card from a coin.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, the present invention charges the game fee through a card for payment of the game fee, as well as the card reader of each game machine by installing a central control unit for the overall control of one or more game machines; The information read in can be shared centrally, and the purpose is to provide bonus information according to the results performed in each game machine.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a card for supporting a game to be performed by reading a game fee payment card input by a player and calculating (decreasing) the game fee after the game is completed and recording the card on the card. In a game machine billing control system in a game machine equipped with a leader, the game machine receives game result information (score or step information) performed by the game machine from a controller of each game machine, and a bonus according to the game result information received from the controller. It provides a game console billing control system comprising a central control unit for transmitting the information to the controller of the game machine to support the bonus information is recorded on the card for payment of the game.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a game fee payment card input by a player to support a game to be performed and calculates (decreases) the game fee after the game is completed and recorded on the card. A game machine charging control method of a game machine equipped with a card reader includes: a) receiving game result information (score or step information) performed by the player in the game machine from a controller of the game machine; and b) transmitting bonus information to the card reader according to the game result information.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a game machine charging control system of the present invention

FIG. 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the central control unit of FIG. 1. FIG.

3 is a detailed configuration diagram of the game machine of FIG.

4 is an operation flowchart for explaining a game machine charging control method of the present invention.

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2: network 10: central control unit

11: Game result information transmission / reception means

12: game result information analysis means 13: storage means

20: game machine 21: card reading / recording means

21a: card reading module for game fee payment

21b: card recording module for game fee payment

21c: card read / write means control unit

21d: card reading / writing means display section

22: game result information transmission module

23: bonus information receiving module

24: control unit

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1, 2 and 3 are the overall configuration diagram of the game machine charging control system of the present invention and the configuration of the central control unit, the game machine, with reference to Figures 1, 2 and 3 will be described with the game machine charging control system. .

Game machine charging control system of the present invention, one or more game machines (20 (1), 20 (2), 20 (3), 20 (N); Hereinafter, collectively referred to as '20' and the central control unit 10 for controlling the game machine is connected by the network (2).

The network 2 includes both wired and wireless networks. However, in the present invention, a plurality of game machines are considered to be in close proximity, and the network 2 is limited to the wired network.

Of course, the game machine 20 should be equipped with a card reading / recording means 21 (generally known as a 'card reader') for reading and recording the game fee payment card.

The game machine 20 receives the card result / recording means 21 and the game result information transmitted by the game player to the central control unit 10 to be described later. It is configured to include a bonus information receiving module 23 for receiving the control unit 24 and the operation of the entire game machine.

The card reading / recording means 21 records the game fee payment card reading module 21a for reading the game fee payment card and the bonus information received from the central control unit 10 on the game fee payment card. A card recording module 21b for paying a game fee, a card reading / recording means control section 21c for processing a card inserted into the card reading / writing means 21, and a card reading / recording means display section 21d. .

The game fee payment card reading module 21a reads the amount of money information of the card inserted into the card reading / writing means 21 and transmits it to the control unit 24 of the game machine, and the card fee payment module recording module 21b for the game fee payment. Serves to receive and record information to be recorded on the game fee payment card from the game machine controller 24.

The card reading / recording means control section 21c controls the card for paying the game fee, which is put into the card reading / recording means 21, to be discharged, and displays the amount of money information of the card for paying the game fee. Display).

In general, a magnetic card is used as the game fee payment card, and as the player plays the game, the amount information of the game fee payment card is reduced and recorded on the game fee payment card.

The game result information transmitting module 22 transmits the result information of the game played by the game player to the central control unit 10. The game result information includes game machine serial number and game score or step information, and the bonus information for each game machine stored in the storage means 13 of the central controller 10 is represented as a table as an example. same.

Game machine unique number score Bonus Information Game machine unique number step Bonus Information 100001 Less than 500 0 100002 Less than 5 0 550-600 200 6 200 600-700 400 7-8 400 : : : :

For example, the game machine charging control system including the central control unit 10 for controlling the ten game machines 20 is assigned a serial number of the game machine 20 such as 100001, 100002, 100003 ... 100010, respectively. .

In addition, the central control unit 10 has a serial number of the ten game machines, and the bonus reference value as shown in Table 1 to provide a bonus according to the game progress when the game player using the respective game machine lets do it.

The central control unit 10 receives the game result via the game result information transmitting / receiving means 11 when the gamer ends the game by using a predetermined game machine, and the game result information analyzing means ( In 12), the game result information is analyzed to check whether the bonus is paid to the player.

With reference to Table 1 will be described the bonus information provided to the player. After the player who selects the 100001 game machine performs the game, the result of the game is derived. If the 100001 game machine is a Tetris game machine, after the game is completed, the score and / or stage of the game is displayed. Then, the game machine serial number and the score and / or stage information of the game, that is, the game result information, are transmitted to the game result information transmitting / receiving means 11 of the central controller 10.

The central control unit 10 having received the game result information analyzes the received game result information.

According to the result analyzed by the game result information analyzing means 12, it is possible to detect which game machine 20 the player has performed, and to provide the game machine 20 with bonus information according to the score and step information. do. To this end, the central control unit 10 should further include a storage means 13 corresponding to each of the bonus information according to the serial number, the score and the step information of each game machine to be stored, of course.

If the game score transmitted from the Tetris game machine 100001 is 560 points, the storage device 13 detects the game machine serial information 100001 first, and then detects the corresponding game result score 560 of the game machine to receive bonus information 200. The game machine 100001 is transmitted.

If the game machine having the serial number 100002 is a street fighter game machine and the stage information of the game transmitted from the street fighter 100002 is 7, the game result information analyzing means 12 detects the game machine serial number 100002 first. Table 1 shows that the bonus information 400 corresponding to the step information 7 is transmitted to the street fighter game machine 100002.

The bonus information is price information or point information corresponding to the game fee. In Table 1, the bonus information is provided as an amount of money information. For example, when the game fee of the Tetris game machine and the Street Fighter game machine is 200 won, the bonus information 200, 400... When it is transmitted to the bonus information receiving module 23 of the game machine, the controller 24 of the game machine makes a recording command to the card recording module 21b for paying the game fee through the card reading / recording means 21, and then The game fee payment card recording module 21b allows the bonus information to be recorded on the game fee payment card.

The bonus information 200 and 400 is recorded in addition to the price information of the card for paying the game fee, and may be used later as a game fee.

Since the central control unit 10 is connected to each game machine 20 and a network 2, the central control unit 10 may check a current state such as whether each game machine 20 has a failure in addition to the above.

A game machine charging control method will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

When the game fee payment card is inserted into the game machine (S110), it is determined whether the inserted game fee payment card is a valid card (S120). A valid card is a card in which the game fee amount information that can be played more than once is recorded. If the card is not a valid card or even if the amount of the game fee information is recorded more than once, the game fee is paid. When the card is unreadable, an error message is displayed on the card reading / writing means display unit 21d of the game machine (S125).

When the game fee payment card put in by the player is a valid card, the card reading / recording means display portion 21d displays the price information of the game fee payment card. Then, the player starts the game, and when the player completes the game, the game result information is transmitted to the central control unit 10 (S130).

The central control unit 10 analyzes the game result information as described above and transmits the corresponding bonus information from the storage means to the corresponding game machine 20 (S140).

The bonus information transmitted in S140 is to be recorded in the game fee payment card by the game fee payment card recording module 21b (S150).

Since the bonus information is recorded in addition to the amount of information already stored in the card for paying the game fee, the player can later play the game using the bonus information.

When the bonus information is a point, the game fee payment card may be divided and stored in the amount of information and points, and a gift may be presented to the game player by the game machine installation side according to the accumulated points.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various modifications and changes can be made by those skilled in the art, which are included in the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.

As described above, the present invention provides the player with the bonus information according to the game result of the game result to the card for the game fee payment card inserted into the game machine to perform the game, the game player can perform the game further with the bonus information. Game machine installers can generate more revenue because they can attract more gamers.

The player also has the effect of becoming more interested in the game in order to obtain more bonus information.

Claims (10)

In the game machine billing control system in a game machine equipped with a card reader that reads the card for payment of the game fee input to support the game to be performed and calculates (decreases) the game fee after the game is completed and writes on the card, The game player receives the game result information (score or step information) performed by the game machine from the controller of each game machine, and transmits the bonus information according to the game result information received from the controller to the controller of the game machine to pay the game fee. And a central control unit for supporting the bonus information to be recorded in a card. 2. The game machine charging control system according to claim 1, wherein the game result information includes a serial number of each game machine. The game controller and the game score (step) according to claim 2, wherein the central control unit includes storage means for storing bonus information corresponding to game results of each game machine, and analyzes the game result information transmitted from the game machine control unit. Game system billing control system characterized in that for detecting the bonus information corresponding to the transmission to the controller of the game machine. The bonus information according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein Game machine billing control system, characterized in that the amount of money information corresponding to the game fee of the game machine. 5. The game machine billing control system according to claim 4, wherein the game fee payment card is recorded with the bonus information added to a pre-stored game fee, and the bonus information can be used as a game fee. The game machine billing control method of a game machine equipped with a card reader that reads the game fee payment card put in by the game player to support the game and calculates (decreases) the game fee after the game is completed and records the card on the card, a) receiving, by the player, game result information (score or step information) performed by the game machine from a controller of the game machine; b) transmitting the bonus information to the card reader according to the game result information. The method of claim 6, wherein the game result information of step a) includes a serial number of each game machine. The game controller and the game of claim 6, wherein the central controller of step b) includes storage means for storing bonus information corresponding to game results of each game machine, and analyzes the game result information transmitted from the game machine controller. The game machine billing control method, characterized in that for detecting the bonus information corresponding to the score (step) and transmitted to the controller of the game machine. The bonus information of any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein the bonus information of step b) is Game machine billing control method, characterized in that the amount of money information corresponding to the game fee of the game machine. The method of claim 9, wherein the game fee payment card is recorded by adding the bonus information to a pre-stored game fee, and the bonus information can be used as a game fee.