Patent ID: 8105162

Claim:
A video game processing apparatus configured to receive, from a controller, an operation signal responsive to a player operation of the controller and thereby control a progress of a video game, the video game being used to simulate a resale business of goods on a display screen of an image display apparatus, the video game processing apparatus comprising: a character display controller that causes the image display apparatus to distinguishably display dealer characters and buyer characters on the display screen of the image display apparatus; a goods buying processor that, when a selected dealer character of the dealer characters is selected by the player operation of the controller, executes a buying process of bought goods from the selected dealer character; a stock goods memory that stores the bought goods bought from the selected dealer character as stock goods; a stock goods display controller that causes the image display apparatus to display the stock goods stored in the stock goods memory in a stock goods display region on the display screen; and a goods resale processor that, when a selected buyer character of the buyer characters is selected by the player operation of the controller, executes a resale process of resold goods to the selected buyer character, wherein the goods buying processor executes a process to store the bought goods associated with the selected dealer character selected by the player operation of the controller in the stock goods memory as the stock goods, and wherein, when the resold goods resold to the selected buyer character, selected by the player operation of the controller, matches with the stock goods, the goods resale processor executes a process to delete the resold goods from the stock goods stored in the stock goods memory.