Patent ID: 6860813

Claim:
A game system for generating an image of a game region located in a virtual three-dimensional space and an object to be operated by a player located in the game region on a screen of a display device from a predetermined viewpoint, and then, in response to operation of the player of a direction indicating section of an input device, controlling a location of the object so that the object moves in a direction on the game region that corresponds to an operating direction of the direction indicating section, the game system comprising: a viewpoint switching device for changing the viewpoint in the virtual three-dimensional space, thereby changing an image of the game region displayed on the screen; and a discrimination image presenting device for displaying on the screen a discrimination image that contains an appearance of the direction indicating section of the input device, and in the case where a correlation between a direction specific to the direction indicating section of the input device and a direction specific to the game region in the screen is constantly maintained irrespective of a change of an image in the game region together with a change of the viewpoint, changing an orientation in the screen of the discrimination image in accordance with a change of the image in the game region so that the direction specific to the game region in the screen and the direction specific to the direction indicating section discernable from the discrimination image substantially coincide with each other.