Patent ID: 6368210
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A video game device for allowing a player to play a baseball video game, comprising:a display device for displaying play characters and action contents comprised of various selectable actions associated with a particular one of the play characters, and for displaying menus corresponding to said various selectable actions of the play characters; an operating unit operable to allow the player to give instructions regarding selection of at least of said various selectable actions from said menus, said at least one of said various selectable actions selected by the player thereby defining operation contents; action storing means for storing selected action contents of the play character which correspond to operation contents defined by selective operation of said operating unit by the player; action control means for reading from said action storing means the selected action contents according to the instructions from said operating unit, and causing the play character to perform said selected action contents; batting instructing means for instructing a selected one of the play characters which is a batter by use of batting instruction contents defined by player operation of said batting instructing means; batting judging means for judging batting results in terms of at least one of hit ball direction and batting point and defining batting judging contents corresponding thereto, judging of said batting results being based on the batting instruction contents and said selected action contents; batting storing means for storing said batting judgment contents; and batting record display means for displaying batting records, said batting record display means including: batting statistics processing means for performing statistics processing on said batting judgment contents and storing processed batting judgment contents to said batting storing means; and batting figures display control means for reading the processed batting judgment contents from said batting storing means and displaying the processed batting judgment contents on said display device.