Patent ID: 7729661

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 further comprises at least one child device-use program storage location for storing a child device-use program, and a child device-use program transmitter for transmitting, in response to a connection request from said child device said child device-use program to said child device, said at least one parent device packet further includes child device-use program holding data showing whether or not the parent device is being provided with said at least one child device-use program storage location, and said display displays, in said parent device list, in a case where said child device-use program holding data shows said parent device is being provided with said child device-use program, the parent device irrespective of the game that is executed by the user's own unit, based on said child device-use program holding data received by said receiver.