Patent ID: 9573055
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A63F,G07F

Claim:
1. A game machine that provides a game in which a predetermined play action is evaluated, and wherein the game machine comprises: a storage device configured to store game play data and a game program utilized by the game machine in providing the game; a game provision unit, provided in part by a control unit, configured to read and execute the game program, the game provisional unit being configured to manage initiation, progression, and termination of the game and collection of a playing charge; a monitor coupled to the game provision unit; an audio output device configured to reproduce and output music, a music reproduction device configured to reproduce the music from the audio output device on the basis of music data for reproducing the music; and wherein timings within the music are used as the reference timings, wherein the game provision unit is configured to serve as a particular position acquisition device and a position evaluation device; and, a specified position detection device being configured to, when a plurality of positions within a predetermined range have been specified as the predetermined play action, detect the plurality of specified positions that have been specified by the play action, the particular position acquisition device being configured to, on the basis of the results detected by the specified position detection device, acquire a particular position that is different from all of the plurality of specified positions by using the plurality of specified positions as reference and the position evaluation device being configured to, on the basis of the result of acquisition by the particular position acquisition device, evaluate the particular position as the predetermined play action, wherein, as the game, a game is employed that teaches reference timings to a player by, based upon reference timing data in which the reference timings at which the predetermined play actions are to be executed are described, arranging indication marks corresponding to the reference timings and a reference mark corresponding to the present time in order of time along a predetermined path, and by generating relative displacement along the predetermined path between the indication marks and the reference mark according to the passage of time, so that the indication marks agree with the reference mark at the reference timings to be shown by the indication marks.