Patent ID: 7883414

Claim:
A method of displaying information on a display device while executing a video game by a user, said video game having graphically displayed battle characters that perform battle actions in said video game, and said method being performed by a user-operated game console that executes a video game program to perform the steps comprising: displaying a bonus area on a display screen; displaying on said display screen a plurality of money or item bonus icons separate and apart from said battle characters, said bonus icons being displayed in a row ending at said bonus area, each bonus icon representing a money bonus or an item bonus award to the user; moving said bonus icons over time towards said bonus area while said video game is being played and at a rate of movement depending upon the actions performed by said battle characters of said video game, so that said bonus icons enter said bonus area one at a time; and providing a player operating said game console a bonus corresponding to a bonus icon currently in said bonus area when an action concludes.