Patent ID: 6645067
Filing Date: 2003-11-11
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A music staging game apparatus, comprising:a monitor; staging operating means for accepting staging operations input from a player on at least a first simulated musical instrument and a second simulated musical instrument, wherein said staging operations include at least a striking operation, and generating a signal indicating input times of said staging operations; a storage means for storing music data for playing music and staging procedures data for instructing the player to perform said staging operations coordinated with said music, said staging operations including playing said first simulated musical instrument and said second simulated musical instrument; a playing means for playing said music using the music data in said storage means; a staging operation instructing means for visually instructing said player to perform said staging operations using said staging operating means based on said staging procedures data of said storage means in a manner synchronous with said music by displaying signal marks moving and a reference mark on said monitor to indicate operation timings, which are times to perform the staging operations, by the signal marks arriving at the reference mark, said signal marks including a first signal mark corresponding to said first simulated musical instrument and a second signal mark corresponding to said second stimulated musical instrument which are simultaneously displayed on said monitor approaching the reference mark; a staging effects generating means for generating staging effects corresponding to said staging operations; an evaluating means for evaluating said staging operations based on correlation between the staging procedures stored by said storage means and said staging operations input by said player; and evaluation display means for displaying to said player evaluation results of said evaluating means and for temporarily replacing said signal marks with alternative characters contemporaneously with said input of said staging operations at offsets corresponding to ones of said alternative characters to provide a real time indication of the evaluating of the staging operations.