Patent ID: 8167719

Claim:
An apparatus for providing an audio game comprising: a memory that at least one of: temporarily stores data generated during execution of an audio game program; and saves user inputted data; a display that outputs message information generated during execution of the audio game program; a touch screen that is installed on the display and delivers positional values corresponding to user touches on the touch screen; an audio output that: converts audio signals depending on the audio game program into audible sounds; and outputs the audible sounds; and a controller that: controls the audio signals to be outputted through the audio output; outputs one or more tracks associated with the audio signals on the display through the touch screen; arranges predetermined specifically figured index marks on each of the tracks in a predetermined pattern depending on the audio signals at fixed locations on the display through the touch screen; moves a visible timeline along one of the tracks in a predetermined direction on the display through the touch screen; and outputs a predetermined performance sound that corresponds to one of the index marks if the user is touching the touch screen at the location of the one of the index marks on the display which the moving timeline overlaps when the moving timeline overlaps the one of the index marks on the display.