Patent ID: 7744467

Claim:
A video game program for causing a computer to implement a video game which displays a character on a monitor, and in which operation of the character is controlled, the video game program comprising: a terminology storing function for storing running commentary terminology used while the video game is in progress; a first running commentary function for performing play-by-play or commentary relating to the video game using the running commentary terminology, the play-by-play or commentary including various phrases, the phrases being collected as a first phrase group, the phrase of the first phrase group including the running commentary terminology, the play-by-play or commentary being performed with the phrases collected as the first phrase group; a running commentary interrupting function for interrupting phrase of the first phrase group running on the process of the first running commentary function when specific events have occurred while the video game is in progress; a second running commentary function for performing the play-by-play or the commentary relating to the specific events when the process of the running commentary interrupting function has been executed, the play-by-play or commentary including various phrases, the play-by-play or commentary relating to the specific events, the phrases being collected as a second phrase group, the phrase of the second phrase group including the running commentary terminology, the play-by-play or commentary being performed with the phrases collected as the second phrase group; a running commentary returning function for returning from the phrase of the second phrase group performing on the second running commentary function to the phrase of an interruption point in the first phrase group interrupted on the process of the running commentary interrupting function when the specific events have occurred; and a running commentary continuing function for continuing the play-by-play or commentary, the play-by-play or commentary being performed with the phrase of the first phrase group on the basis of running commentary terminology which is included in the phrase of the interruption point in the first phrase group interrupted by the running commentary interrupting function, when the process of the running commentary returning function has been executed.