To provide a member management method in a game house capable of appropriately judging the adequacy of a used money amount and summing up money amounts used in games as the used money amount appropriately.
The game state of a game machine corresponding to member identification information is detected, whether or not the detected game state of the game machine is a prescribed state is judged and the used money amount corresponding to the member identification information in the prescribed state is obtained. Also, information regarding the number of game media in hand of a member corresponding to the member identification information is obtained on the basis of used money amount information corresponding to the member identification information or the used money amount information corresponding to the member identification information and game information, and the used money amount corresponding to the member identification information is obtained on the basis of the obtained information regarding the number of the game media in hand. Then, the accumulation of the used money amount information used for lending when the information regarding the number of the game media in hand is a prescribed number or more is inhibited, and the used money amount information used for lending when the information regarding the number of the game media in hand is less than the prescribed number is accumulated.
Tetsuo Fukuda
Tatsuhiko Inukai
Atsuko Nakamura