Patent ID: 9155970
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a display unit configured to present a user with visual output; a controller unit configured to convert manual inputs from the user into electronic signals for receipt by the information processing apparatus; an execution unit configured to execute an application program based on the user's manual inputs to the controller unit, wherein: (i) the application program is stored in a non-transitory, computer readable storage medium, (ii) the execution of the application program causes the display unit to produce images that present the user with opportunities to reach respective ones of a plurality of predetermined achievements based on a skill level of the user in providing the manual inputs to the controller unit during execution of the application program, and (iii) the application program is characterized by one or more attributes indicating that the application program is one of a plurality of different versions of the application program; a memory unit configured to store: (i) acquisition information indicating which of the plurality of predetermined achievements that the user has obtained during execution of the application program, and (ii) attribute information, for each of the plurality of predetermined achievements that the user has obtained, indicating which of the different versions of the application program was executed when the respective ones of the plurality of predetermined achievements were obtained; a screen generation unit configured to cause the display to present the user with an achievement screen having indicia of the acquisition information and the attribute information, wherein: the indicia of the acquisition information includes at least one achievement icon image for each of the respective plurality of predetermined achievements that the user has obtained during execution of the application program, and the at least one achievement icon image is displayed in accordance with different display modes as a function of the attribute information.