Patent ID: 7934995

Claim:
A game system for performing a game via communication between a stationary game apparatus and a plurality of hand-held game apparatuses, wherein the plurality of hand-held game apparatuses each comprise: a hand-held-side display device for displaying an image; a pointing device for designating a position on a screen of the hand-held-side display device; a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving data to and from the stationary game apparatus; a non-transitory storage medium for storing a hand-held device program including at least a recognition program for recognizing a letter or graphic that is input by writing by hand; a processing system configured to: execute the recognition program to recognize the letter or graphic input by writing by hand using the pointing device; and cause the transmitter to transmit recognition result data which is data of the recognized letter or graphic to the stationary game apparatus, the stationary game apparatus comprises: a transmitter and a receiver for transmitting and receiving data respectively to and from each hand-held game apparatus; a processing system configured to: execute a game process based on the recognition result data received from each of the plurality of hand-held game apparatuses; and cause a predetermined display device to display a result of the game process.