Patent ID: 7033269

Claim:
A computer readable recording medium in which an executable game progress control program is recorded to control a progress of a baseball game in which a game player's team and a computer-controlled team or competitor's team alternately play offense and defense using a ball character, said game progress control program comprising the steps of: displaying a game image including a plurality of characters on a monitor screen of a computer; receiving input of instructions based on directional moving operations, which input a movement direction as input, and depression operations of a pointing device by the player, said pointing device in its entirety being movable with respect to said monitor screen, and proceeding the baseball game based on the input made by the game player; wherein in said receiving step: designation of instructions for a pitching action of a pitcher character is accomplished by the operation of said pointing device when the player's team is the defensive side, designation of instructions for offensive action of a batter character is accomplished by operation of said pointing device when the game player's team is the offensive side, and selection and effectuation of a pitching throw or a pickoff throw as said pitching action is accomplished by conversion of a directional moving operation of the pointing device common to both the pitching throw and the pickoff throw, the selection and effectuation of the pitching throw and the pickoff throw being accomplished by the following ordered combination of player inputs: a first input operation of the pointing device which is the directional moving operation of said pointing device inputting a movement direction as input which is common to effectuation of both the pitching throw and the pickoff throw; and a second input operation of the pointing device, which is one of two different depression operations on said pointing device, wherein: when the second input operation is a first depression operation of the two different depression operations, the movement direction of the first input operation is converted to an effectuation command to effectuate the pitching throw; and when the second input operation is a second depression operation of the two different depression operations, the movement direction of the first input operation is converted to an effectuation command to effectuate the pickoff throw; and designation of a base that is to be picked off is accomplished by the directional moving operation of said first input operation of said pointing device when the player's team is the defensive side.