Patent ID: 8408999

Claim:
A game apparatus displaying on a screen moves to be made by a player in time with reproduction of a piece of music, wherein said piece of music is divided into multiple segments of the same length of time, each segment corresponding to a measure of said piece of music, each measure having a plurality of beats, said game apparatus comprising: a reproduction part reproducing said music by sequentially reproducing each segment in turn, each segment has an associated set of game images, each set of game images including at least one instruction indicator and an animated image; and a display part displaying multiple sets of the game images on the screen at the same time, wherein each of the sets of displayed game images is deemed active when its associated segment is being played, wherein each instruction indicator is associated with one of the beats, wherein the animated image of each set of game images includes a plurality of still images, each still image being associated with one of the beats of the associated segment, and wherein the animated image is animated by displaying each still image, in turn and in time with the beats of the associated segment to present moves to be made by said player while the respective set of game images is active.