Patent ID: 8366527

Claim:
A video game apparatus having an operation unit for receiving a player's input and a display for displaying at least two game fields, the game apparatus comprising: an object displayer that displays objects which sequentially appear from a predetermined position on each of the game fields; an object mover that moves a position of the objects displayed by the object displayer based upon the input to the operation unit; an object clearer that clears objects satisfying a predetermined arrangement condition; a game termination controller that causes a game to end when objects that are not cleared and stack in at least one of the game fields reach to a line at a predetermined position on the display; a field mover that displaces at least one of the game fields in a direction away from the line while displacing the other game fields in a direction towards the line when a field displacement condition is satisfied in any one of the game fields, the field displacement condition being associated with clearing of the objects by the object clearer.