Patent ID: 8277322

Claim:
A game system comprising a plurality of game apparatuses and an input device capable of bidirectional communication with the game apparatus, wherein the input device comprises: a first storage section configured to store game data; a first communication section for communicating with the game apparatus; a first reception control section for receiving game data from the game apparatus using the first communication section; a first write control section for storing the game data received from the first reception control section into the first storage section; and a first transmission control section for transmitting the game data stored in the first storage section to one or more different game apparatuses using the first communication section, each of the plurality of game apparatuses comprises: a second storage section having a database configured to store game data; a second communication section for communicating with the input device; a second transmission control section for transmitting the game data stored in the second storage section to the input device using the second communication section; a second reception control section for receiving game data from the input device using the second communication section and storing the received game data in the database; and a game process control section for executing a predetermined game process by incorporating the stored game data in the database into the predetermined game process as one or more non-player characters in the game process.