To urge users to join a game aggressively, and to raise their volition of competition to the game.
Host equipment 10 transmits information about a request urging the users to participate in the game, a prize provided to a winner in the game, and the like to a plurality of of karaoke equipment 14 (14-1, 14-2, ..., 14-n) through a network 12. The host equipment 10 receives expressions of participation from the karaoke equipment 14 within a predetermined time and starts the game among the karaoke equipment 14 which have expressed the participation. The host equipment 10 receives a result of the performance of the game from each karaoke equipment 14 which has expressed the participation and decides one of the karaoke equipment corresponding to the game winner, and transmits the result of the decision to each karaoke equipment.
Satoshi Kono
Makoto Nakamura
Kurata Masatoshi
Takashi Mine
Yoshihiro Fukuhara
Sadao Muramatsu
Ryo Hashimoto