Patent ID: 8764530

Claim:
A video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a video game by causing a display device to display a game screen on a display screen of the display device, the video game processing apparatus comprising: a command receiver for receiving a command inputted by means of an operation of a player; a timer for measuring a predetermined period of time defined in advance from a time when a time measuring start condition is satisfied in the video game; an object display controller for causing the display device to display a measured time point notifying object on the display screen, the measured time point notifying object indicating a measured time point corresponding to a measured time measured by the timer; a command reception number determiner for determining whether the command receiver effectively receives a predetermined command for a predetermined number of times or more or not when the timer measures the predetermined period of time; an effective reception upper limit number updater for updating an effective reception upper limit number by increasing the effective reception upper limit number from an initial number of times to the predetermined number of times in a stepwise manner in accordance with elapse of the measured time measured by the timer; and a specific process executor for carrying out a specific process in a case where the command reception number determiner determines that the predetermined command is effectively received for the predetermined number of times, the specific process corresponding to the predetermined command being effectively received for the predetermined number of times, wherein the command reception number determiner confirms whether an effective reception number, which indicates the predetermined number of times the predetermined command is effectively received, reaches the effective reception upper limit number or more when the command receiver receives the predetermined command, and determines that the predetermined command is effectively received by the command receiver in a case where the effective reception number does not reach the effective reception upper limit number.