Communicative game system

A communicative game system comprising a network formed by mutually connecting a plurality of game devices, whereby a plurality of players play a game individually by means of communications media, wherein said each game device comprises:

• camera means for capturing an image of the individual player at the game device;
• sound generating means for generating sound data corresponding to an instrument allocated to the game device;
• transferring means for receiving an image and sound data transferred over the network and transferring the received image, received sound data, the image captured at the game device, and the sound data generated by the game device onto the network;
• processing means for processing the received image and the image generated by the game device;
• a synthesizing means for synthesizing the received sound data and the sound data generated by the game device;
• display means for displaying the processed images as performers in a band;
• and
• speaker means for outputting synthesized sound data.

A communicative game system comprising a network formed by mutually connecting a plurality of game devices, whereby a plurality of players play a game individually by means of communication media, wherein each game device comprises:

• camera means for capturing an image of the individual player at the game device;
• transferring means for receiving an image transferred over the network and transferring the received image and the image generated by the game device onto the network;
• processing means for processing the received image and the image generated by the game device;
• and
• display means for displaying the processed images in a display position corresponding to a character operated by the player at a corresponding game device.