Patent ID: 7929911

Claim:
A wireless communication game system using a plurality of mobile game units, which function as a parent device or a child device configured to wirelessly communicate 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 a plurality of parent devices existing within a communicable range; a display for displaying parent device information of the parent devices existing within the communicable range, based on said parent device packets received by said receiver, said displayed parent device information being configured to include the information of a plurality of parent devices only; a selector for allowing a player to select any a parent device included in said parent information; and a connection request transmitter for transmitting a connection request toward the parent device selected by said selector, wherein the parent device information displayable on the child device includes information pertaining to the user using the parent device and/or the game being played on the parent device but excludes a listing of any child devices in the game system, and wherein said child device is configured to request to become a parent device itself while said display displays the parent device information.