Patent ID: 6626756
Filing Date: 2003-09-30
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
An amusement game system comprising:a display device for a picture; an input device for outputting signals according to operation by a player; and a control device for causing an amusement game to progress and displaying the picture according to a progress of the amusement game on a screen of said display device, said amusement game including a step for moving an object toward a target in a virtual field while making reference to output from said input device, wherein: said control device comprises: a first-instruction detection device for detecting a first instruction which has been inputted by the player with a use of said input device; a cursor-movement device for moving a cursor on a graph having a prescribed length when said first instruction is detected, said graph being displayed on said display device and indicating a movement power value of said object; a second-instruction detection device for detecting a second instruction which has been inputted by the player with the use of said input device; a movement power value determination device for determining, when said second instruction is detected, the movement power value of said object on a basis of a lapse of time from the point of time when said first instruction has been detected to a point of time when said second instruction has been detected; an object movement device for moving said object in the virtual field in accordance with the movement power value thus determined; and a change instruction detection device for detecting a change instruction in a maximum movement power value, which has been input by the player with the use of said input device; said movement power value determination device determining the movement power value within a range up to a predetermined maximum movement power value, and said movement power value determination device changing said predetermined maximum movement power value and determining the movement power value within the range up to the maximum movement power value thus changed, when said change instruction detection device detects the change instruction in the maximum movement power value, said maximum power value as changed being half of said predetermined maximum movement power value, and a movement velocity of said cursor moving on said graph after detection of the change instruction in said maximum movement power value being substantially equal to a movement velocity of said cursor moving on said graph before detection of the change instruction in said maximum movement power value.