Patent ID: 7316617

Claim:
A game system wherein a plurality of player characters move around in a virtual game space, controlled by a plurality of players, respectively, the game system comprising: a plurality of operation mechanisms, operated by the plurality of the players, respectively; a movement controller which controls movement of one of the plurality of player characters in the game space according to a first operation of an operation mechanism; a first-image generator which generates a first image of a displayed region of the game space which contains all of the player characters; a second-image generator which generates a second image by zooming in on a surrounding region of a first player character in the game space, when a second operation of an operation mechanism has been performed by one of the players, the first player character being one of the player characters controlled by the one player; and a game image output mechanism which outputs the first image as a game image, when the second operation of an operation mechanism has not been performed by any of the players, and which concurrently superimposes the second image on the first image that contains and displays all of the player characters as an output game image, when the second operation of an operation mechanism has been performed by any one of the players.