ELECTRONIC SHOPPING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC GAME DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING ELECTRONIC GAME DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video game machine having a portable memory module to be used by a customer so as to generate and store a shopping list and shopping related information in other formats. SOLUTION: This electronic shopping system is provided with: an electronic game device 24 including the portable memory module 34 constituted so as to execute a dialogical program which enables a user to perform a dialogical game and constituted so as to execute a shopping program which enables the user to generate the shopping list to be stored in the portable memory module 34, which is eliminated from the electronic game device 24 and carried to a site of a retailer; a first storage terminal including a first memory interface which communicates with the portable memory module 34 in order to retrieve the shopping list; and a second storage terminal including a second memory interface which communicates with the portable memory module during purchase dealings. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI