Patent ID: 6390923
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: A63F,G10H

Abstract:
A music playing game apparatus comprising:background music reproducing means for reproducing a background music chosen from a plurality of background music stored in a storage medium; display means for displaying an image stored in the storage medium; control means for reading a plurality of simulated music instruments to be played by a player and a content of recorded information in the storage medium for executing a predetermined operation to the display means and the background music reproducing means upon receiving an operation signal from the simulated music instrument; said control means including: a pattern storage unit for storing operation instruction pattern for instructing an operation of the simulated music instrument; a music playing sound information storage unit for storing playing sounds of the simulated music instrument so as to correspond to each operation instruction pattern; a display control unit for dividing the display area into display sections whose number is in accordance with the number of the simulated music instruments, for reading out the operation instruction pattern corresponding to the background music to be reproduced, and for displaying the operation instruction patterns in synchronism with the reproduced music in divided sections respectively; and a playing sound output unit for reading out and outputting a playing sound from the playing sound information storage unit, the playing sound corresponding to the operation instruction signal at a time of operation of the music instrument in accordance with the operation instruction pattern displayed on the display control unit.