Patent ID: 6319128
Filing Date: 2001-11-20
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A video game apparatus which implements a competition between fisher characters in a simulated fishing site in which the fisher characters attempt to fish up by fishing lines fishes that exhibit predetermined behaviors, said video game apparatus comprising:a plurality of operating means corresponding to the respective fisher characters, for giving fishing action instructions to the respective fisher characters;displaying means for displaying a game display screen;image storing means for storing animation images representing behaviors of hooked fishes;fishing display controlling means for causing said displaying means to display, as said game display screen, a fishing image including said simulated fishing site and said fisher characters;first determining means for determining whether a predetermined first condition pertaining to fishing has been met;animation display controlling means for causing said displaying means to display, as said game display screen, said animation images; andswitching means for switching said game display screen from said fishing image to said animation images when said first determining means has determined that said first condition has been met;wherein said animation display controlling means displays said animation images in such a manner as to enable identification of the fisher character whose fishing line has hooked up a fish.