Patent ID: 8197343

Claim:
A game apparatus, comprising: a display portion for displaying at least one operating button; a touch panel which is provided on said display portion and detects operation information including at least an operated position; operating button position setting programmed logic circuitry which sets, prior to a starting of a game, a display position of said operating button at an arbitrary position in said display portion on the basis of an instruction by a player, and makes a storage store the display position; operation effective area setting programmed logic circuitry which sets an area of said touch panel corresponding to the display position of said operating button set by said operating button position setting programmed logic circuitry as an operation effective area, and makes said storage store positional information of said operation effective area; operating coordinates position detecting programmed logic circuitry which detects an operating coordinates position in said display portion based on the operation information detected through an operation of said touch panel; position determining programmed logic circuitry which determines whether or not the operating coordinates position detected by said operating coordinates position detecting programmed logic circuitry is within said operation effective area indicated by the positional information stored in said storage; and game processing programmed logic circuitry which executes a game process according to an operation of said operating button when a determination is made by said position determining programmed logic circuitry that said operation coordinates position is within said operation effective area, wherein said operating button position setting programmed logic circuitry sets a displaying region of a figure depicted on said display portion by operating said touch panel as said display position of said operating button.