Patent ID: 8002633

Claim:
A game apparatus used in association with a display, wherein a plurality of players participate and play a game on a display screen displayed on said display, said game apparatus comprising: one or more game program storage areas configured to store a game program; an operating member operable by the player; number-of-players detection programmed logic circuitry configured to detect the number of players who participate in the game; screen partitioning programmed logic circuitry configured to partition a display area included in said display screen by the number of the participating players, and configured to form a plurality of divided areas; game image generating programmed logic circuitry configured to generate game images in each of said divided areas allotted to each player based on said game program and an operation from said operating member; evaluating value setting programmed logic circuitry configured to set an evaluating value of each player based on how well each player is doing in the game relative to the other players; and size changing programmed logic circuitry configured to change a size of said divided areas allotted to each player based on said evaluating value.