An effect application instructing function includes a user setting
function for setting up information as to users of an entertainment
apparatus to generate a user information table, an event processing
function for reading input information from one or more manual
controllers and processing data depending on the input information to
generate an event processing table, a vibration setting function for
extracting only information relative to vibrations from the event
processing table and successively registering vibrations types with
respect to the user to which vibrations are to be applied in a vibration
output table, and a vibration outputting function for generating and
outputting vibration indicating data including a vibration type with
respect to the user to which vibrations are to be applied, based on the
vibration output table and the user information table, and executing a
physical effect to be applied to a hypothetical user as a parameter
change.