To provide an expense recovery system for collecting game information of a game machine, and deciding the expense of the game machine in response to game information, and also to provide the game machine, a collecting server, and an expense server.
A Pachinko machine 8 includes a working ball number collecting box 20 having an IC (integrated circuit) tag 23 (not shown in a Fig.), and totalling the number of working balls. An R/W (reader/writer) unit 9 monitors the IC tag 23. A game cannot be played when the working ball number collecting box 20 is removed. The collecting server 4 of a Pachinko game hall 2 collects the number of the working balls, and transmits it to the expense server 5 of a game machine producing company 1. The expense server 5 generates expense recovery data based on the number of the working balls, and transmits it to the request server 6 of a telephone company 3. The request server 6 generates request data for requesting expense together with a telephone rate. The working ball number collecting box 20 is removable from the Pachinko machine 8, so as to read the number of the working balls by an HT (handy terminal) 400 (not shown in the Fig.), and to output it to the expense server 5.
SATO NAGAMASA
KATO NOBUYUKI
Chisato Nakayama
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