Patent ID: 8296439

Claim:
A wireless communication game system using a plurality of mobile game units, which function as a parent device or a child device capable of wireless communication with each other, wherein said parent device includes a broadcasting circuit for broadcasting at least one parent device packet including a user's own unit identifying information for allowing a user's own unit to be identified and game identifying information for allowing a game executed by the user's own unit to be identified and said child device includes: a receiver for receiving said at least one parent device packet from one or more parent devices existing within a communicable range; a display for displaying a parent device list of the one or more parent devices existing within the communicable range, based on said parent device packet received by said receiver; a selector for allowing a player to select any one of the one or more parent devices included in said parent device list; and a connection request transmitter for transmitting a connection request toward the parent device selected by said selector, wherein said parent device is a unit for storing both a first type of program that the child device does not request the parent device to transmit, and a second type of program that the child device requests the parent device to transmit, said at least one parent device packet further includes execution type data showing which type of program, said first type of program or said second type of program, said parent device executes, and with respect to the one or more parent devices executing said first type of program, said displaying displays, in said parent device list, only the one or more parent devices that execute a game communicable with the game executed by the user's own unit, and with respect to the one or more parent devices executing said second type of program, said displaying displays, in said parent device list, all parent devices executing said second type of program, irrespective of the game that is executed by the user's own unit, based on said execution type data received by said receiver.