Patent ID: 6149520
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A video game machine for playing a video ball game in a virtual ball game space between two ball game teams imaged on a display wherein a game player controls a player's character of at least one of the two ball game team, comprising:a manual controller having a directional input device for permitting the game player to input directional data for moving the player's character and a non-directional capture input for permitting the game player to input a ball capture signal for directing the player's character to capture a ball;relative position detecting means for detecting means for detecting a relative position in the virtual game space between the player's character and the ball in response to the ball capture signal; andmovement control means, responsive to the ball capture signal and the relative position, for advancing the player's character toward the ball when the player's character is spaced aport from the ball and the relative position between the player's character and the ball, as detected by said relative position detecting means, is within a predetermined range.