Patent ID: 7559835

Claim:
A video game processing apparatus that causes an image display apparatus to display a player character on an image display screen of the image display apparatus, the video game processing apparatus controlling progress of a video game by controlling an action of the player character to be displayed on the image display screen in accordance with operations by a player, the video game processing apparatus comprising: an action specification receiver that receives an action specification of the player character in response to an action specification operation by the player; an operation guidance display controller that causes the image display apparatus to display operation guidance in a first specific region of the image display screen when the action specification receiver receives a specific action specification, the operation guidance including a plurality of operation instruction icons and a plurality of end display icons, the plurality of operation instruction icons being continuously arranged via at least one branching point in a state that the plurality of operation instruction icons can be selected in turn to cause the player to regularly and sequentially continue to perform operational inputs with an input section, the plurality of end display icons being predetermined images that indicate selected end positions to which the plurality of operation instruction icons lead; a card-type icon display controller that causes the image display apparatus to display a plurality of card type icons, each having a display image, in a second specific region of the image display screen, the display images indicating the predetermined images of the plurality of end display icons, wherein, when it is determined that the player carries out the operational inputs regularly and sequentially so as to select the plurality of operation instruction icons in accordance with the operation guidance displayed on the image display screen by the operation guidance display controller and one of the plurality of end display icons is reached when the card type icon having the display image that indicates the predetermined image presented by the one end display icon is displayed in the second specific region, the card-type icon display controller causes the image display apparatus to display the display image of the card type icon so as to change from a hidden state to an exposed state at least temporarily; and a privilege applier that applies a privilege relating to a special effect to the player character when all of the display images of the plurality of card type icons displayed in the second specific region by the card-type icon display controller keep the exposed states for a predetermined period of time.