Patent ID: 8308552

Claim:
A game system, comprising: two or more game apparatuses, each of which comprises a game progress control unit configured to perform game progress control; and an event processing apparatus configured to carry out a single total event substantially simultaneously by having each of the two or more game apparatuses perform a predetermined different part of the single total event, wherein the single total event is a performance jointly carried out by the two or more game apparatuses, wherein the event processing apparatus and each game apparatus are configured to communicate with each other, the event processing apparatus comprises: an event timing determining unit configured to determine an event timing, at which the total event is carried out according to a predetermined event timing determining condition, based on event enable timing information received from each of the two or more game apparatuses; and a control command transmitting unit configured to transmit to each game apparatus an event control command used to carry out the total event at the event timing determined by the event timing determining unit, and the game progress control unit of each game apparatus controls game progress so that at the event timing, the total event is carried out.