Patent ID: 8298082

Claim:
A game device that progresses a game in accordance with an operation to a controller that is used by being pointed to a display device, comprising: an image generating unit that sequentially generates a series of images of the game to be displayed on the display device; a distance measuring unit that sequentially measures a distance between the display device and the controller; a suspension control unit that suspends progress of the game when the measured distance becomes smaller than a first prescribed value and controls the image generating unit to generate and display an alert game image by combining the game image at the time of suspension with a predetermined alert message, the first prescribed value defining a minimum safe distance between the controller and the display device to reduce the chance the controller comes into contact with the display device; and a resume control unit that, when the distance measured after the progress is suspended becomes larger than a second prescribed value, resumes the progress of the game by rewinding the progress by a predetermined stretch of time from a time the progress of the game was suspended.