Patent ID: 7052397
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An entertainment system comprising: an entertainment apparatus for executing a game program; and a manual controller including at least one manual control switch, said manual controller entering a manual control command based on operation of said manual control switch by a player into said entertainment apparatus, said manual controller further including at least one vibration generator for generating vibrations based on a request from entertainment apparatus, wherei said entertainment apparatus includes: a first means for determining a target player based on said manual control command from said manual controller; a second means for making a command for generating vibrations when said manual control command indicating said vibrations to be applied to said target player is entered, said second means makeing said command independently from motion of said target player; a third means for sending said command of said second means to said vibration generator of another manual contrller if said target player selected by said first means is a human user; and a fourth means for changing a numerical value of a parameter regarding a hypothetical character corresponding to said command of said second means if target player selected by said first means is a hypothetical character in said game program, said numerical value being referred to by said game program, said fourth means changing said numerical value independently from motion of said target player.