Patent ID: 6923722

Claim:
A game system to be played by a plurality of players, the game system including a plurality of operating mechanisms provided to the players, a plurality of individual displays provided to the players, and a common display commonly provided to the players, wherein a plurality of player characters appearing on game maps are controlled by each corresponding player operating each corresponding operating mechanism, the game system comprising: first game map data storage locations which store data for displaying a first game map; second game map data storage locations which store data for displaying at least one second game map; an inter-game-map movement control processing mechanism which moves the player characters individually between the first game map and the second game map upon satisfaction of a predetermined condition; common display control processing mechanism which displays player characters located on the first game map and at least a part of the first game map on the common display; and individual display control processing mechanism which displays a player character located on the second game map and at least a part of the second game map on an individual display provided to a player operating the player character located on the second game map.