Patent ID: 6461239
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: A63F,G10H

Abstract:
A music action game machine comprising:a main body; an operation input device disposed on a front side of the main body so as to be adjacent to hands of a player facing the front side of the main body, the operation input device having a plurality of operation members; a storage device for storing data of a musical composition and data of a performance procedure associated with the musical composition; a music play device for playing the musical composition based on the data stored in the storage device; an operation instructing device for giving the player a visual instruction to operate the operation members in accordance with progress of a play of the musical composition based on the data stored in the storage device; an effect producing device for producing a performance effect in response to a performance operation performed by the player to each of the operation members; an estimation device for estimating the performance operation of the player based on a relationship between the performance procedure defined by the data stored in the storage device and the performance operation of the player; and an estimation informing device for informing the player of an estimation result determined by the estimation device, wherein the operation input device comprises a disk-shaped operation member as one of the operation members, the disk-shaped operation member being operable so as to be turned about an axis thereof, and wherein the effect producing device produces a scratch sound effect as the performance effect in response to a turning operation of the disk-shaped operation member, said scratch sound effect being similar to an actual scratch sound produced by irregularly turning a phonograph record disk with keeping contact between the phonograph record disk and a stylus of a phonograph player.