JP2006223831A - Typing game device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a typing game device with improved game properties by varying the display mode of a prescribed character string displayed in an image display means. <P>SOLUTION: When a character string 22A of one phrase corresponding to the words of a music number is displayed on a main game screen 21 of a first liquid crystal display 3 with a typing game execution process S6 started as a coin such as hard cash is loaded into a coin slot 9, a lottery process is executed S41 to determine whether a part of the character string 22A of the phrase should be blank by replacing the part with a blank character area 40 or not. If it is determined that the part should be blank (S42:Yes) as a result of the lottery, the part of the character string is replaced with the blank character area 40 consisting of three or five parentheses 40A to be displayed (S45 and S46). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a typing game apparatus that controls a game based on a correct / incorrect determination between a predetermined character string displayed on an image display means and a character string input by a key operation, and in particular, a predetermined game displayed on an image display means. The present invention relates to a typing game apparatus in which the playability is improved by changing the display mode of the character string.

Conventionally, in a typing game that has been practiced as a keyboard for typing in a word processor or the like, the player types the character string displayed on the display or the like within a predetermined time from the keyboard, thereby allowing the player to use the keyboard. The key arrangement is memorized and effective typing is acquired. As a means for performing such a typing game, a casing-type typing game apparatus, which is arranged in a game center or the like and can be executed by an unspecified number of players by collecting a predetermined fee, and each player There is a typing game apparatus configured to be able to play on each PC by purchasing software and installing a program on the PC.
Furthermore, in recent years, in order to improve the gameability, such typing game devices not only allow the character strings displayed at random to be typed, but also the contents of dialogue in the conversation with the characters displayed on the display. There are a method of inputting the lyrics and a method of inputting the lyrics while playing music. For example, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-268534, a practice sentence is not displayed on the screen, but a practice song is reproduced from a computer and the lyrics are input by the user, so that typing is performed based on information entered from the auditory sense. A typing game apparatus capable of improving accuracy and accuracy is described.
JP 2002-268534 A (pages 6 to 9, FIGS. 4 to 9)

However, the typing game apparatus described in Patent Document 1 differs in that typing is performed in accordance with the reproduced music instead of the displayed character string, but the player simply performs typing in the typing game. It is the same as the previous typing game apparatus in that only the operation is repeated, and it cannot be said that the game performance is sufficiently improved. In particular, a typing expert who can smoothly advance the typing game is satisfied with the result once the game is cleared, and cannot be motivated to play the game again.
Further, if the typing is performed based on the lyrics of the reproduced music as in Patent Document 1, the player always selects the same character string in the same order when the same music is selected as the reproduced music. Will be typing. Therefore, there is a possibility that the player will learn the character string pattern to be presented by repeatedly playing the game, and get tired of the game.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and a part or all of a predetermined character string displayed on the image display means when a predetermined condition is satisfied is not displayed. As a result, a new game mode in which a hidden character string is predicted and typed is configured, and the gameability is further improved, and even a typing expert can fully enjoy the game. It is an object to provide a simple typing game apparatus.

  In order to achieve the object, the typing game apparatus according to claim 1 is an image display means (for example, the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4) for displaying a predetermined character string (for example, the character string 22A) related to the game. ), Input means (for example, keyboard 6) in which a plurality of keys corresponding to a plurality of characters are arranged, and whether or not the character string input by the input means matches the predetermined character string In a typing game apparatus having correctness determination means (for example, CPU 51, S29) and game control means (for example, CPU 51) for controlling a game based on the determination result of the correctness determination means, it is displayed on the image display means. Display control means (for example, CPU) that hides a part or all of the predetermined character string (for example, character string 22A) when a predetermined condition is satisfied 1, characterized in that it comprises a display control circuit 60).

  A typing game apparatus according to a second aspect is the typing game apparatus according to the first aspect (for example, the typing game machine 1), wherein a part or all of the predetermined character string (for example, the character string 22A) is not displayed. Timing determination means (for example, CPU 51, S41) for determining the timing for display is provided, and whether or not the predetermined condition is satisfied is determined based on the timing determined by the timing determination means. To do.

  A typing game apparatus according to a third aspect is the typing game apparatus according to the first or second aspect (for example, the typing game machine 1), wherein the display control means (for example, the CPU 51, the display control circuit 60) is The length of the non-displayed character string is changed based on the determination result of the correctness determination means (for example, CPU 51, S29).

  A typing game apparatus according to claim 4 is a typing game apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3 (for example, a typing game machine 1). HDD 55) and music performance processing means (for example, CPU 51, sound control circuit 61) for playing music at a specified tempo and outputting sound based on the music data stored in the music data storage means. And the predetermined character string (for example, the character string 22A) is a character string related to a sound output by the music performance processing means.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a typing game apparatus comprising: music data storage means (eg, HDD 55) for storing music data; and music performance processing for playing music based on the music data stored in the music data storage means. Means (for example, CPU 51, sound control circuit 61) and image display means (for example, first liquid crystal) for displaying a predetermined character string (for example, music lyrics) associated with music played by the music performance processing means. Display 3, second liquid crystal display 4), input means (for example, keyboard 6) on which a plurality of keys corresponding to a plurality of characters are arranged, and a character string input by the input means is the predetermined character string. Correct / incorrect determination means (for example, CPU 51, S128) for determining whether or not they match, and a game system for controlling a game based on the determination result of the correct / incorrect determination means And a character string non-display control unit (for example, CPU 51, S116) that hides all of the predetermined character string in the image display unit. And

  Furthermore, the typing game apparatus according to claim 6 has game mode selection means (for example, CPU 51, S105) for selecting one game mode from a plurality of types of game modes, and the game mode selection means performs a predetermined game mode. When (for example, ULTRA HARD mode) is selected, the character string non-display control means hides all of the predetermined character string.

  In the typing game device according to claim 1, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, a part or all of the predetermined character string is displayed as non-display, so that the character string that is not displayed other than typing is predicted. It is possible to configure a new game mode and improve game playability. Therefore, even when the game is repeatedly performed, the game is not monotonized and the player is not bored.

  Further, in the typing game apparatus according to the second aspect, the predetermined character string is hidden based on the timing determined by the timing determining means, so the character string is not displayed at a timing unpredictable to the player. It is possible to improve the playability. Furthermore, even when playing a game repeatedly, the timing at which the character string is hidden is different every time the game is played, so that the player is not bored.

  In the typing game apparatus according to claim 3, since the length of the character string that is not displayed is changed based on the determination result of the correctness determination means, the difficulty level of the game is changed based on the correct answer rate of typing. It becomes possible. As a result, a game that matches the player's level becomes possible, and the player's willingness to play is improved.

  The typing game apparatus according to claim 4 outputs music and voice at a tempo specified based on the stored music data, and makes a correct / incorrect determination based on a match with a character string related to the output voice. This makes it possible to perform a typing game in a situation with a sense of presence that is not present in the past, in which typing is performed in accordance with the music played along with the performance of the music, and the player is not bored.

  Further, in the typing game apparatus according to claim 5, since the game is performed without displaying the character string related to typing on the image display means, the character input visually is recognized based on the displayed character string and the typing is performed. It is possible to provide a new game in which typing is performed by recognizing characters and input timing by auditory input based on music to be played. Further, since a high score cannot be obtained unless the lyrics of the music are learned, it is possible to improve the willingness to play the game again, and even the advanced typing player can fully enjoy the game.

  Furthermore, in the typing game apparatus according to the sixth aspect, when a predetermined game mode is selected, the game is performed without displaying any character string related to typing on the image display means, and therefore, based on the displayed character string. Rather than visually recognizing characters to be input and typing, a player can select a new game to perform typing by recognizing characters and input timing by hearing based on the music being played. It becomes possible to provide. Further, since a high score cannot be obtained unless the lyrics of the music are learned, it is possible to improve the willingness to play the game again, and even the advanced typing player can fully enjoy the game.

  Hereinafter, a typing game apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings based on first and second embodiments embodied in a case-type typing game machine 1 installed in a game center or the like.

(First embodiment)
Here, the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment reproduces music from a speaker, sequentially displays lyrics on the display in accordance with the flowing music, and the player sequentially types the displayed lyrics on the keyboard. It is comprised so that a game may be performed by this. Furthermore, the typing game to be implemented is composed of a plurality of stages according to the number of music numbers of the music to be played back, and when the number of typographical errors of the player is less than a predetermined number at the end of one stage. The game proceeds to the stage corresponding to the music of the next music number, and is configured so that the typing game can be continuously performed.
First, a schematic configuration of the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a typing game machine according to the first embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment includes a casing 2 that forms the outer shape of the typing game machine 1, and a main game screen (see FIGS. 3B and 4B). The first liquid crystal display 3 on which is displayed, and an image (see FIGS. 3A and 4A) that is located above the first liquid crystal display 3 and related to effects such as promotional videos and advertisements is displayed. A second liquid crystal display 4, a center panel 5 provided below the first liquid crystal display 3 and formed with a slot for coins and cards, a keyboard 6 on which a player types, and left and right sides of the first liquid crystal display 3 It is basically composed of the provided external illumination LED 7 and a pair of speakers 8 arranged on the left and right sides of the second liquid crystal display 4. Each component will be described below.

The first liquid crystal display 3 is a liquid crystal display that is disposed at a predetermined angle at the center of the front side of the housing 2, and is inclined rearward at a predetermined angle.
On the first liquid crystal display 3, game information related to the progress of the typing game, such as the lyrics of the music played through the speaker 8 during the typing game, the player's type result, and the score associated therewith, is displayed. Information necessary for the progress of the game) is displayed (see FIGS. 3B and 4B).

On the other hand, the second liquid crystal display 4 separately disposed above the first liquid crystal display 3 is a liquid crystal display similar to the first liquid crystal display 3, but the second liquid crystal display 4 produces a typing game when the typing game is executed. An effect image is displayed.
Here, the effect image displayed on the second liquid crystal display 4 is different from the display content displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 and is not directly required for the progress of the game by the player. To have an auxiliary role. For example, in the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, a song of a singer is played as a song, and the player inputs the lyrics of the song with the keyboard 6 and the game proceeds, but the second liquid crystal display 4 displays the song. A promotion video (hereinafter abbreviated as PV) related to the music is displayed (see FIGS. 3A and 4A). Therefore, it is possible to play a typing game in a realistic situation in which the figure of the artist singing is displayed along with the performance of the music, and the player is not bored. Each display content displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4 will be described in detail later.

  The center panel 5 is provided with a coin insertion slot 9 and a card insertion slot 10. The coin insertion slot 9 is an insertion slot into which a coin such as a 100 yen coin is inserted. A coin sensor 63 is disposed at the coin slot 9, and when a coin is inserted into the coin slot 9, a coin detection signal is output to the CPU 51 via the coin sensor 63 (see FIG. 13). Detect that was inserted.

The card insertion slot 10 is an insertion slot into which an IC card (not shown) containing an IC tag in which a game result of a typing game is recorded is inserted. A card sensor 64 (described later) and a card reader / writer 65 are disposed inside the card insertion slot 10 (see FIG. 13). When an IC card is inserted into the card insertion slot 10, The card sensor 64 detects that fact. Here, the IC card used in the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment is a game result (acquired score (score), points, etc.) in the previous game of the player possessed by the built-in IC tag. Is stored, and the stored game result can be displayed to the player by performing a predetermined operation.
That is, when an IC card is detected by the card sensor 64, the card reader / writer 65 reads out the game result of the typing game from the IC tag or writes a new game result to the IC tag (FIG. 15). S3, S9).

  Also, the keyboard 6 is disposed on the front surface of the housing 2 so as to protrude toward the front side, and as will be described later, “alphabetic characters (A to Z)”, “kana (an)”, “numbers (0 to 0). 9) ”, a Japanese 108 keyboard on which a plurality of character input keys for inputting characters such as“ symbol (period, comma) ”, enter keys, cursor keys, etc. are arranged (see FIG. 10). . Then, during the game, the player inputs characters by typing each key corresponding to characters, symbols, numbers, etc., and advances the game. Before the game starts or after the game ends, etc. Commands such as difficulty determination selection and game execution start are performed based on the operation of each key. The keyboard configuration will be described in detail later.

  Further, four external illumination LEDs 7 are arranged on each of the left and right side surfaces of the housing 2 for each side surface. This external illumination LED 7 is composed of a full color LED that can be lit in full color, and performs various illumination effects according to the music played on the typing game machine 1. For example, as the lighting effect, an effect of changing the illumination color of the total eight external illumination LEDs 7, an effect of changing the illumination color according to a certain rule, an effect of turning on / off the external illumination LED 7, and the like are possible. .

  Speakers 8 are disposed on the left and right sides of the second liquid crystal display 4. The speaker 8 is an output device that outputs music, sound effects, and the like that are played back on the typing game machine 1. Specifically, at the time of executing the typing game, music and sound are output at a designated tempo based on the sound data and performance data of the music stored in the HDD 55 (see FIG. 13).

  Next, each display content displayed on the 1st liquid crystal display 3 and the 2nd liquid crystal display 4 is demonstrated in detail using FIG. 2 thru | or FIG. The display contents displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4 are basically composed of three patterns before the typing game starts, during the typing game, and after the typing game ends. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing display contents displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 before the start of the typing game. FIGS. 3A and 4A are displayed on the second liquid crystal display 4 during the execution of the typing game. 3 (B) and 4 (B) are schematic diagrams showing display contents displayed on the first liquid crystal display during execution of the typing game, and FIG. 5 is after the typing game is finished. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing display contents displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3.

Here, in the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, a typing game is performed by inputting lyrics of the music to be played. Specifically, first, the player selects a song that he wants to play from a plurality of songs prepared. When the typing game is started, performance data corresponding to the accompaniment music of the selected music and audio data corresponding to the singing voice of the artist of the music are reproduced. Further, as the performance data and audio data of the music are reproduced, the lyrics of the music are displayed for each phrase as a character string to be input by the player in accordance with the audio data to be reproduced.
By inputting a character string corresponding to the displayed one-phrase lyrics with the keyboard 6, the typing game progresses, and at the end of the game, based on each element related to typing such as the accuracy of typing and the input timing. , Typing game results (number of typing mistakes, points scored, points, etc.) are calculated and displayed. That is, the typing game in the typing game machine 1 competes for the level of skill related to typing input while enjoying the music played during the game.

  First, display contents before the start of the typing game will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, a list of songs that can be played by the typing game machine 1 is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 after a predetermined amount of coins is inserted into the coin insertion slot 9 and before the typing game is started. A song selection screen 15 is displayed.

  The song selection screen 15 includes a playable song name display unit 16 that displays the titles of songs that can be played, a song selection cursor 17 that can select any of the playable song name display units 16, and a song selection cursor 17. The selected song name display unit 18 displays the song name of the selected song, and the selected artist name display unit 19 displays the artist name of the song selected by the selection cursor.

  The playable song name display unit 16 indicates the names of songs that can be played on the current typing game machine 1 (up to 8 songs in the first embodiment). Here, the playable music displayed by the playable music name display unit 16 is a music for which music data is stored in the HDD 55 described later (see FIGS. 13 and 14), and the stored music data is It is managed by the server 80 (see FIG. 12) and updated sequentially. Therefore, the player can select and play from a plurality of music pieces including the latest music piece updated by the server 80. The playable song name display unit 16 may display not only the song name but also the artist's photo and PV.

The song selection cursor 17 can be moved up and down and left and right on the playable song name display section 16 by operating the cursor key 114 (see FIG. 10) of the keyboard 6, and the selected song name display section 18 and the selected artist name display section. 19 shows the song name and artist name of the song in the playable song name display unit 16 where the song selection cursor 17 is currently located.
When the enter key 112 (see FIG. 10) is pressed while the song selection cursor 17 is positioned on the playable song name display unit 16 where the song name of the desired song is displayed, the song to be played is determined and typed. The game starts.

  In addition, while the music selection screen 15 is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3, PV of an arbitrary music may be played on the second liquid crystal display 4. Further, an advertisement image or the like may be displayed. Further, the music selection screen 15 may be displayed not on the first liquid crystal display 3 but on the second liquid crystal display 4.

  Next, display contents during execution of the typing game will be described with reference to FIGS. 3A and 3B show a case where a predetermined music A by a male artist is selected on the music selection screen 15 and a typing game is started, and FIGS. 4A and 4B show a predetermined music by a female artist. The display contents of the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4 when B is selected on the music selection screen 15 and the typing game is started are shown.

As shown in FIG. 3A, for example, when the game is started by selecting the music piece A, the second liquid crystal display 4 has a PV image of a male artist who sings the music piece A played through the speaker 8. 20 is displayed. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4A, for example, when the game is started by selecting the music B, the PV of the female artist who sings the music B played through the speaker 8 is displayed on the second liquid crystal display 4. The video 20 is displayed.
On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 3B and 4B, the first liquid crystal display 3 has a main game related to the progress of the typing game in parallel with the display of the PV video 20 on the second liquid crystal display 4. A screen 21 is displayed.

  Here, the main game screen 21 includes a lyric display unit 22 that displays the lyrics of a phrase that is currently being played in kanji characters and the like, and a romaji display unit that displays a character string 23A input by the player by typing on the keyboard 6 in roman characters. 23 and the number of the song number (the number of stages) of the lyrics phrase currently displayed in the lyrics display unit 22 and the number of the phrase counted from the beginning of the song number are displayed. A music status display unit 25, a type result display unit 26 that displays a player's type correct / incorrect determination result, a score display unit 27 that displays the score (score), points, etc., acquired by the player so far, The music information display unit 28 displays the name of the artist performing and the name of the music.

The lyric display unit 22 is a display unit that displays a character string 22A corresponding to the lyrics of one phrase of the currently played music piece. The player uses the character string 22A displayed on the lyric display unit 22 as a keyboard 6. The game progresses by typing in. When the player correctly types the displayed lyrics, the score is gradually added. On the other hand, if the lyrics are entered incorrectly, the score is not added, and the number of mistakes is added as the number of incorrect inputs. The If the number of mistakes of this type is equal to or greater than a predetermined number at the end of one of the song numbers (stages) constituting the song, the game ends at that point (see S40 in FIG. 17). .
Further, a part of the character string 22A displayed on the lyrics display unit 22 is displayed in a state where it is replaced with the blank character region 40 at an arbitrary timing (a state where the character string is not displayed) (FIG. 6 ( A) and (B)). Here, in the blank character area 40, the parenthesis symbol 40A having the same number as the number of characters of the character string 22A to be originally displayed is displayed side by side, thereby allowing the player to input the correct lyrics corresponding to the blank character. This is a special character string display mode for prompting. The blank character area 40 will be described later in detail.

  The Roman character display unit 23 is a display region for newly displaying, in Roman characters, the character string 23A already typed by the player among the character strings 22A corresponding to the lyrics displayed on the lyrics display unit 22. Thereby, it is possible to notify the player of the characters typed so far.

Also, the music status display unit 25 displays the number of the lyric phrase currently displayed on the lyric display unit 22 and the number of the phrase counted from the beginning of the tune number. It is. Here, the typing game according to the first embodiment has a plurality of stages (for example, first to third) according to the number of music numbers (for example, one music is composed of numbers 1 to 3) of the music to be played. Composed of stages). For example, FIG. 3B shows that the 15th phrase of stage 1 (song number 1) is currently displayed. FIG. 4B shows that the fifth phrase of stage 2 (song number 2) is currently displayed.
Each time a player completes input of one phrase, a numerical value 25A indicating the number of phrases is incremented by one, and each time one stage of input ends, a numerical value 25B indicating the number of stages (song number) is incremented by one. Is added. Thereby, it is possible to notify the player of the current number of stages (music number) and the number of phrases that have been typed so far.

  The type result display unit 26 is a display unit that displays a player's type correct / incorrect determination result. When the correct character is typed at the same timing as the sound of the music to be played, “PERFECT” is displayed. The Also, “GOOD” is displayed when a correct character is typed at a timing different from the sound of the music to be played. On the other hand, when an incorrect character is typed regardless of the timing, “MISS” is displayed.

The score display unit 27 is a display unit that displays the score (score) and points that the player has acquired so far. Here, the score (score) is added by correctly typing in accordance with the character string 22A displayed on the lyrics display section 22, and further when the corresponding character is typed at the same timing as the sound of the music to be played. The score is added. On the other hand, points are added one by one when all the sentences for one phrase are input without typo (S36 in FIG. 17).
Then, the number of blank characters in the blank character area 40 displayed by the lyrics display unit 22 as will be described later, depending on whether or not the acquired number of points has reached a predetermined ratio with respect to the number of phrases completed so far. (The number of non-displayed characters) changes (see FIG. 9). In other words, for a player with a high point acquisition rate (correct answer rate), increasing the difficulty of the game by increasing the number of characters to be hidden, and for a player with a low point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) Reduces the difficulty of the game by reducing the number of hidden characters. As a result, a game that matches the player's level becomes possible, and the player's willingness to play is improved.
Further, the score (score) and the points are added until the game ends, and when the IC card is inserted into the card insertion slot 10 of the center panel 5, the score (score) obtained at the end of the game and Points are stored in the IC card (S9 in FIG. 15).

  The song information display section 28 displays the title of the song currently selected and the name of the artist that the player selects at the start of the game.

  In the first embodiment, the main game screen 21 is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 and the PV video 20 is displayed on the second liquid crystal display 4. On the contrary, the PV on the first liquid crystal display 3 is displayed. The video 20 may be displayed, and the main game screen 21 may be displayed on the second liquid crystal display 4.

Then, after the typing game is completed as shown in FIG. 5, a game result screen 30 showing the game result of the current typing game is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3.
The game result screen 30 includes a miss count display section 31 that displays the number of misses of the type in the current typing game, an acquisition point display section 32 that displays the acquired points, and an acquired score display that displays the acquired scores (scores). The unit 33 and a name input display unit 34 that prompts the player to input the name of the player who played the game.

  Then, by referring to the game result screen 30, the player can recognize the number of mistakes in the current typing game, the acquired points, and the score (score). In addition, by inputting an arbitrary name using the keyboard 6 in the name input display unit 34, it is possible to register the acquired score in the ranking. The registered ranking list is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 or the second liquid crystal display 4 in a demonstration screen or the like.

  Note that while the game result screen 30 is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3, PV of an arbitrary piece of music may be played on the second liquid crystal display 4. Further, an advertisement image or the like may be displayed. Further, the game result screen 30 may be displayed not on the first liquid crystal display 3 but on the second liquid crystal display 4.

  Next, the blank character region 40 that is displayed at any timing on the lyrics display unit 22 and that does not display a part of the character string 22A will be described with reference to FIGS. First, the display mode of the blank character area 40 displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 during execution of the typing game will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7. FIG. 6A is a schematic diagram showing display contents displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 when a blank character area 40 in which the number of blank characters is set to 3 is displayed, and FIG. 6B is a blank. It is the schematic diagram which showed the display content displayed on the 1st liquid crystal display 3 when the blank character area | region 40 by which the number of characters was set to 5 is displayed. FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the display contents displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 at the end of the type of one phrase when the blank character area 40 is displayed.

  As shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B, a part of the character string 22A displayed on the lyrics display unit 22 is displayed by being replaced with the blank character region 40 at an arbitrary timing. The blank character area 40 is displayed with three or five parenthesis symbols 40A arranged in a line, and the player is supposed to correspond to the correct lyrics from the number of the plural parenthesis symbols 40A displayed side by side. A character is input along the predicted character string. In addition, the music to be played is controlled so that it is output only when correct lyrics (for example, the character string 41 in FIG. 7) are input with respect to the sound of the lyrics corresponding to the blank character region 40. Therefore, if the player does not remember the lyrics of the music to be played, he / she cannot type the correct character string and cannot output the sound of the corresponding lyrics, so that the game motivation can be improved. .

  Here, first, as shown in FIG. 6A, a blank character region 40 composed of three blank characters will be described. The blank character region 40 is composed of a series of three parenthesis symbols 40A in succession to another character string 22A. Are arranged side by side.

  When the player performs type input based on the displayed main game screen 21, a correct / incorrect determination is made in the same manner as in a normal typing game, and the input character string 23A is displayed on the Roman character display unit 23. Then, when the input of all the character strings corresponding to the displayed lyrics of one phrase is completed, the input corresponding to the lyrics of the music played inside the bracket characters 40A of the blank character area 40 as shown in FIG. A character string 41 to be displayed is displayed. Thereby, the player can recognize the correct lyrics to be input.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 6B, a blank character region 40 consisting of five blank characters will be described. The blank character region 40 is composed of five parenthesis symbols 40A arranged in a row following another character string 22A. It is configured by arranging them side by side.

  When the player performs type input, correct / incorrect determination is made in the same manner as in a normal typing game, and the input character string 23A is displayed on the Roman character display unit 23. When the input of all the character strings corresponding to the displayed one-phrase lyrics is completed, the blank character region 40 is not shown in the figure, as in the case of the blank character region 40 composed of three blank characters. A character string 41 to be input corresponding to the lyrics of the music to be played is displayed inside each parenthesis symbol 40A.

  Next, a replacement lottery table 45 used when determining whether or not to display a part of the character string 22A with the blank character region 40 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 8 is a view showing the replacement lottery table 45 according to the first embodiment.

  The replacement lottery table 45 determines whether or not a part of the character string 22A displayed during the execution of the typing game is replaced by the blank character area 40 and displayed based on the random number value sampled by the random number sampling circuit 73. It is a lottery table. Specifically, each time a new phrase is displayed, a lottery using the replacement lottery table 45 is performed (see S41 in FIG. 18), and the range of random values is “0” to “3” as shown in FIG. If it is, a part of the character string 22A of the displayed phrase is replaced with the blank character area 40 and displayed (see FIGS. 6A and 6B). Further, when the range of the random number value is “4” to “19”, the entire text of the character string 22A corresponding to the lyrics is displayed as usual without displaying the blank character area 40 (FIG. 3B and FIG. (See FIG. 4B). The replacement lottery table 45 is stored in a ROM 53 described later (see FIG. 13).

  A blank character number determination table 46 used to determine the number of blank characters (the number of non-displayed characters) when the blank character area 40 is displayed will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the blank character number determination table 46 according to the first embodiment.

  The blank character number determination table 46 replaces a part of the character string 22A displayed during the execution of the typing game with the blank character area 40 and displays the number of blank characters in the blank character area 40 as a point acquisition rate ( It is a table determined based on (correct answer rate). Here, the point acquisition rate is a value obtained by dividing “the current number of points acquired by the player” by “the total number of stages played so far in this game”. As described above, points are added one point at a time when all sentences for one phrase are entered without typo, and the point acquisition rate is the correct answer rate of the player who entered the phrase without typo Is a value indicating

  In the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, when it is determined by the replacement lottery table 45 that display is performed using the blank character area 40, the number of blank characters is determined using the blank character number determination table 46. (See S44 in FIG. 18). Specifically, as shown in FIG. 9, when the point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) at that time is 0.5 or more, the number of blank characters (the number of characters to be hidden) is set to 5 characters. When the point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) is less than 0.5, the number of blank characters (the number of characters to be hidden) is set to three characters. Therefore, for players with a high point acquisition rate (correct answer rate), increasing the difficulty of the game by increasing the number of hidden characters, and for players with a low point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) Can reduce the difficulty of the game by reducing the number of hidden characters. As a result, a game that matches the player's level becomes possible, and the player's willingness to play is improved. The blank character number determination table 46 is stored in a ROM 53 described later (see FIG. 13).

  Next, the keyboard 6 provided in the typing game machine 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 11. FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a keyboard provided in the typing game machine according to the first embodiment. FIG. 11 is a schematic cross-sectional view of any one of a plurality of keys provided on the keyboard.

  As shown in FIG. 10, the keyboard 6 performs input such as “English letters (A to Z)”, “Kana”, “Numbers (0 to 9)”, “Symbols (period, comma)”, and the like. This is a Japanese 108 keyboard in which a plurality of character input keys 111 and function keys 115 such as an enter key 112, a shift key 113, and a cursor key 114 are arranged. During the game, the player inputs characters by typing a character input key 111 corresponding to characters, symbols, numbers, etc., and advances the game. Further, prior to the start of the game, after the end of the game, etc., commands such as selection of a song to be played, game difficulty selection, and start of game execution are performed based on the operation of the function keys 115. Further, various keys of the keyboard 6 are provided with light emitting LEDs, and the keys are configured to emit light in various modes based on control signals from the CPU 51.

  Here, the key internal structure of the keyboard 6 will be described with reference to FIG. The plurality of keys arranged on the keyboard 6 have the same internal structure. Accordingly, the following description will be given by taking the internal structure of one character input key 111 as an example of the plurality of keys arranged on the keyboard 6, and description of the other character input keys 111 and function keys 115 will be omitted. To do.

As shown in FIG. 11, the character input key 111 basically includes a base plate 150, a switch circuit board 151, a light emitting circuit board 152, a key top 153, an urging mechanism 154, a full color LED 155, and the like.
In this regard, the switch circuit board 151 laid on the base board 150 is provided with a pair of electrodes 156 disposed immediately below the center of the key top 153.
Further, the light emitting circuit board 152 laid on the switch circuit board 151 is provided with an opening 157 for exposing the pair of electrodes 156, and the periphery of the opening 157 is a full color. A full color LED 155 that can be lit is provided.

An urging mechanism 154 is provided between the light emitting circuit board 152 and the key top 153, and the urging mechanism 154 urges the key top 153 to the opposite side of the switch circuit board 151. Further, an electrode 158 protrudes near the center of the key top 153 toward the switch circuit board 151. Accordingly, if the key top 153 is pressed, the electrodes 158 projecting from the key top 153 can be brought into contact with the pair of electrodes 156 provided on the switch circuit board 151. Therefore, the key top 153 is pressed. This can be transmitted as an electrical signal flowing through the switch circuit board 151. That is, the key switch 159 is constituted by these three electrodes 156 and 158.
The urging mechanism 154 may be composed of only an elastic body, or may be composed of an elastic body or a bridging mechanism, and the configuration thereof is not limited.

The key top 153 is formed of a light-transmitting material (for example, transparent acrylic, transparent plastic, etc.), and key information 160 such as letters, numbers, and symbols is printed in black on the surface plane portion. ing. Further, the surface on the key top 153 side of the light emitting circuit board 152 is also printed in black.
Therefore, when the full color LED 155 is turned off, the translucent key top 153 appears in black, which is the color of the surface of the light emitting circuit board 152. Therefore, the key information printed in black on the black key top 153 appears. 160 becomes difficult to recognize.
On the other hand, when the full color LED 155 is lit, the translucent key top 153 appears in the color in which the full color LED 155 is lit. Become.

  And in the keyboard 6, the key switch 159 in each key is connected to the transmission circuit not shown. The transmission circuit is connected to the CPU 51 of the typing game machine 1 via an interface unit 52 (hereinafter referred to as I / O) described later. Therefore, the type of the pressed key can be specified by transmitting an electric signal from the key switch 159 of the pressed key to the CPU 51 via the transmission circuit. The transmission circuit is mounted on the switch circuit board 151.

  In the keyboard 6, a full color LED 155 inside the key is connected to the light emission control circuit 62. Further, the light emission control circuit 62 is connected to the CPU 51 via the I / O 52 (see FIG. 13). Therefore, the full color LED 155 in the key can be turned on with the color specified by the CPU 51 via the light emission control circuit 62. Specifically, in the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, when there is a key input during the typing game and it is determined that the correct type has been made, the pressed character input key 111 is displayed in blue. Make it emit light. Further, when there is a key input and it is determined that the wrong type has been made, the pressed character input key 111 is lit in red, and the correct key to be input is lit in green. Further, when there is no key input, only the correct key to be input is illuminated in green.

As shown in FIG. 12, the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment is connected to a server 80 via a network N capable of bidirectional communication such as the Internet. Based on the data transmitted from the server 80, the music data stored in the HDD 55 (see FIG. 13) of the typing game machine 1 can be updated.
Accordingly, it is possible to change the types of music that can be played on the typing game machine 1 by updating the music data, and also to manage the typing game machines installed in each game store in a lump. The data update work is also easy.

Next, a configuration related to the control system of the typing game machine 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 13 is a block diagram schematically showing a control system of the typing game machine according to the first embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 13, the control system of the typing game machine 1 is electrically connected to the CPU 51 that controls various controls such as game processing operations in the typing game machine 1, the ROM 53 and the RAM 54 connected to the CPU 51, and the CPU 51. Peripheral device (actuator).

The CPU 51 is a central processing unit that performs arithmetic processing according to various commands. The I / O 52 is a connection unit that directly and indirectly electrically connects the first liquid crystal display 3, the second liquid crystal display 4, the keyboard 6, the external illumination LED 7, the speaker 8, and the like to the CPU 51.
The ROM 53 is a nonvolatile read-only memory in which a replacement lottery table 45 (see FIG. 8), a blank character number determination table 46 (see FIG. 9), a calculation program for operating a flowchart described later, and the like are stored.
The RAM 54 is a memory for temporarily storing various data calculated by the CPU 51. The number of mistakes of the player type in the typing game, the score (score) acquired, the points acquired, and the present The total number of stages played by the player is also stored. Also, the RAM 54 stores the lyrics data of the song data used in the current typing game among a plurality of song data stored in the HDD 55 described later, and is temporarily stored after being divided into phrases.

The HDD 55 is a storage device that stores music data used when a typing game is executed in the typing game machine 1. Here, the music data is composed of video data, performance data, audio data, lyrics data, determination reference data, LED light emission pattern data, keyboard light emission pattern data, and time limit data, and music data storage formed in the HDD 55. It is stored for each storage area 56 (see FIG. 14).
In addition, a plurality of pieces of music data are stored in the music data storage area 56 (a maximum of eight in the first embodiment), and each piece of data stored based on the data transmitted from the server 80 as described above is stored. The music data is updated as needed. Then, the type of song name displayed on the song selection screen 15 (see FIG. 2) changes based on the type of song data stored in the song data storage area 56, and corresponds to the song selected on the song selection screen 15. A typing game is performed based on the music data to be played (see FIGS. 3 and 4).

  Here, the music data storage area 56 formed in the HDD 55 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing a music data storage area.

  As shown in FIG. 14, the music data storage area 56 of the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment has a plurality of storage areas (first music) corresponding to the number of music data that can be stored (8 music in the first embodiment). In the embodiment, the first storage area to the eighth storage area), and for each storage area, a video data storage area 56A, a performance data storage area 56B, an audio data storage area 56C, a lyrics data storage area 56D, and a determination reference data storage. An area 56E, an LED light emission pattern data storage area 56F, a keyboard light emission pattern data storage area 56G, and a time limit data storage area 56H are provided.

Each storage area will be described below. The video data storage area 56A is a PV video 20 of an artist displayed on the second liquid crystal display 4 in the music data (see FIGS. 3A and 4A). This is a storage area for storing video data related to
The performance data storage area 56B is a storage area for storing performance data related to accompaniment by a musical instrument or the like output from the speaker 8 among the music data.
The sound data storage area 56C is a storage area for storing sound data related to the singing voice sung by the artist output from the speaker 8 among the music data.
The lyric data storage area 56D is a storage area for storing lyric data related to document data of the lyrics of the music among the music data. Further, in the lyrics data, the range of the three-character and five-character strings that are replaced by the blank character area 40 corresponding to each phrase (for example, “drag” is used in the phrases shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B). It is also recorded about "Happake". As described above, the lyrics for each phrase are displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 when the typing game is executed (see FIGS. 3B and 4B).

The determination reference data storage area 56E is a storage area in which the determination reference data regarding the correctness / incorrectness determination of the characters typed by the player and the correctness / incorrectness determination of the input timing among the music data is stored. Then, the CPU 51 adds the number of misses, scores, points, and the like as described later based on the stored determination reference data and the operation signal from the keyboard 6.
The LED light emission pattern data storage area 56F and the keyboard light emission pattern data storage area 56G include LED light emission pattern data for causing the external illumination LED 7 to emit light among the music data and light emission for the full color LED 155 provided in the key. This is a storage area in which keyboard light emission pattern data is stored. In the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, the eight external illumination LEDs 7 are each lit (for example, luminescent color) by the light emission control circuit 62 described later during the execution of the typing game based on the stored LED light emission pattern data. , Light on / off). Further, the full color LED 155 provided inside the key emits light in each light emission mode (for example, light emission color, lighting / extinguishing) by the light emission control circuit 62 described later during execution of the typing game based on the stored keyboard light emission pattern data. Be controlled. In addition, as a light emission pattern of the full color LED 155, for a beginner of a typing game, a light emission pattern for assisting key input by sequentially lighting a key to be input with a light emission color different from the light emission color of the entire keyboard 6, There is a pattern that changes the emission color of all keys arranged on the keyboard 6 in accordance with the image of the music.

  The expiration date storage area 56H is a storage area in which the expiration date data relating to the expiration date of the song data is stored in the song data. The expiration date data is a date when the song data can be used (use start date), It consists of two date data of the date when the music data becomes unusable (use end date). This time limit data is used together with the timer 58 (see FIG. 13) to manage the expiration date of each piece of music data, and is controlled by the CPU 51 so that a typing game using music data whose usage date has expired cannot be played.

Here, returning to FIG. 13, the control system of the typing game machine 1 will be described.
The game communication means 57 converts the signal sent out by the typing game machine 1 into a signal that can be transmitted according to the communication format such as a telephone line or a LAN cable, and transmits the signal to the server 80 and is transmitted from the server 80. Is a device that receives the received signal and converts it again into a signal in a format that can be read by the typing game machine 1, and is connected to the server communication means 81 of the server 80 via a network N capable of bidirectional communication such as the Internet ( (See FIG. 12).

  Further, a timer 58 is connected to the CPU 51. The information of the timer 58 is transmitted to the CPU 51, and the CPU 51 manages the expiration date of the stored music data from the information of the timer 58 and the expiration date data stored in the expiration date data storage area 56H of the HDD 55.

  The CPU 51 is connected to a clock pulse generation circuit 70 and a frequency divider 71 for generating a reference clock pulse, and a random number generator 72 and a random number sampling circuit 73 for generating a random number. The random numbers sampled through the random number sampling circuit 73 are used for various lotteries such as replacement determination using the blank character region 40 (S42 in FIG. 18).

The display control circuit 60 is connected to the CPU 51 via the I / O 52, and controls the display contents of the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4 in accordance with the calculation processing result of the CPU 51. is there. Here, the display control circuit 60 includes a program ROM, an image ROM, an image control CPU, a work RAM, a VDP (video display processor), a video RAM, and the like. The program ROM stores an image control program related to display on the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4 and various selection tables. The image ROM stores, for example, each image such as a song selection screen 15 (see FIG. 2), a main game screen 21 (see FIGS. 3 and 4), a game result screen 30 and the like displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3. The dot data for forming is stored.
Then, based on the parameters set by the CPU 51, the image control CPU follows the image control program stored in advance in the program ROM, and selects the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal from among the dot data stored in advance in the image ROM. The image displayed on the liquid crystal display 4 is determined. The VDP forms an image corresponding to the display content determined by the image control CPU and outputs the image to the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4.

  Thereby, for example, in the standby state, a demonstration screen including PV, advertisements, ranking list, etc. of an arbitrary song is displayed, and after a coin is inserted into the coin insertion slot 9, a song is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3. A selection screen 15 (see FIG. 2) is displayed. And when the typing game in the typing game machine 1 is started and executed, the lyric data constituting the music data is displayed for each phrase on the first liquid crystal display 3 and based on the input result of the keyboard 6. Control is performed to display the character string 23 </ b> A already typed by the player on the Roman character display unit 23. If it is determined that the blank character area 40 is to be replaced with a part of the character string 22A based on the lottery result, the blank character area 40 including a plurality of parenthesis symbols 40A is displayed instead of the character string. It is displayed on the lyrics display unit 22 (see FIGS. 6A and 6B). On the other hand, the second liquid crystal display 4 displays PV, which is video data constituting music data.

  The sound control circuit 61 is connected to the CPU 51 via the I / O 52 and is also connected to the speaker 8. Then, when the typing game is executed and the music data stored in the music data storage area 56 of the HDD 55 is read, the performance data and audio data constituting the music data are converted into sound signals by the sound control circuit 61, Output from the speaker 8.

  The light emission control circuit 62 is connected to the CPU 51 via the I / O 52, and is also connected to the external illumination LED 7 and a full color LED 155 (see FIG. 11) disposed inside the key. When the music data stored in the music data storage area 56 of the HDD 55 is read by the CPU 51, the light emission control circuit 62 reads the external illumination LED 7 and the full color based on the LED light emission pattern data and the keyboard light emission pattern data constituting the music data. The light emission mode of the LED 155 is controlled.

  Furthermore, a keyboard 6 is connected to the CPU 51. A key switch 159 provided inside each key of the keyboard 6 transmits that the key top 153 has been pressed down as an electrical signal flowing through the switch circuit board 151. The CPU 51 performs control to execute various operations corresponding to each key based on the switch signal output from each key switch 159 when each key is pressed.

  The coin sensor 63 is a sensor that detects a coin (for example, a 100-yen coin) used as a price for executing the typing game in the typing game machine 1. The coin sensor 63 is disposed inside the coin insertion slot 9 and is connected to the CPU 51 via the I / O 52. Accordingly, the coin sensor 63 transmits a coin insertion signal to the CPU 51 based on the insertion of the coin from the coin insertion slot 9. Then, the CPU 51 can execute the typing game by detecting a coin insertion signal corresponding to a predetermined amount (for example, 200 yen).

  The card sensor 64 is a sensor that detects whether or not an IC card is inserted into the card insertion slot 10, and the card reader / writer 65 reads / reads data from / to an IC tag disposed on the IC card. It is a device that performs writing. The card sensor 64 and the card reader / writer 65 are both disposed inside the card insertion slot 10 and connected to the CPU 51 via the I / O 52. When an IC card is detected by the card sensor 64 and a predetermined operation is performed, the game result of the typing game is read from the IC tag by the card reader / writer 65 (S3 in FIG. 15). . At the end of the typing game, a new game result (acquired points or points) is written to the IC tag (S9 in FIG. 15).

  Next, a main processing program executed in the typing game machine 1 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 15 is a flowchart of the main processing program of the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment. 15 to 19 are stored in the ROM 53 and the RAM 54 provided in the typing game machine 1 and executed by the CPU 51.

  As shown in FIG. 15, first, the CPU 51 determines whether or not an IC card is inserted in the card insertion slot 10 based on a detection signal from the card sensor 64. If it is determined that an IC card is inserted (S1: YES), it is further determined in S2 whether or not a data content confirmation request from the player has been received. On the other hand, if it is determined that the IC card is not inserted (S1: NO), the process proceeds to S4.

Here, in the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, when the shift key 113 of the keyboard 6 is pressed before the coin is inserted and the IC card owned by the player is inserted into the card insertion slot 10, A list of recorded game results (scores and points obtained by the player in the previous games) is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3, and the player can check the contents.
Therefore, in the determination of S2, it is determined whether or not the shift key 113 is pressed based on the operation signal from the keyboard 6. If it is determined that the shift key 113 is pressed (S2: YES), the card reader / writer is determined. The data of the IC tag built in the IC card is read by 65, and a list of game results is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 based on the read data (S3).

  In S4, a start acceptance process is performed. Specifically, in the start acceptance process, it is determined whether or not a coin (100 yen coin, etc.) has been inserted into the coin insertion slot 9 by a predetermined amount (200 yen in the first embodiment). In the meantime, a standby state in which a demonstration play screen including a demo play game screen, a PV of an arbitrary music, a promotion advertisement, a list of ranking data, and the like are displayed on the display is waited. In the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, when a coin is inserted into the coin insertion slot 9, the coin sensor 63 detects the coin and a coin detection signal is output to the CPU 51. Thereby, the CPU 51 can determine whether the player has inserted coins.

  Subsequently, in S5, the music selection process of FIG. 16 is performed. In the music selection process, the music selection screen 15 (see FIG. 2) is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 based on the type of music data stored in the music data storage area 56 of the HDD 55, as will be described later, and this game. Set the music to be used in.

  In S6, the typing game execution process of FIG. 17 is performed based on the music set in S5. In the typing game execution process, music is played as will be described later, and points, points, and the like are added based on the type result of the keyboard 6 and are continuously performed until a predetermined end condition is satisfied.

  Thereafter, when the typing game execution process ends, a game result display process is performed (S7). Specifically, in the game result display process, the game result screen 30 (see FIG. 5) is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 based on the result of the typing game in S6. The game result screen 30 displays the number of mistakes in the current typing game stored in the RAM 54, the acquired points, and the acquired scores (scores), and further inputs a name for prompting the player to input the name of the player who played the game. The display unit 34 is displayed. Further, when the keyboard 6 is operated in this state, the characters input to the name input display unit 34 are displayed based on the operation signal. If the acquired score (score) is equal to or higher than the predetermined score, the ranking data stored in the RAM 54 is updated.

Next, in S <b> 8, the CPU 51 determines whether an IC card is inserted into the card insertion slot 10 based on a detection signal from the card sensor 64. If it is determined that an IC card is inserted (S8: YES), the points acquired in the current typing game stored in the RAM 54 in S9 and the acquired scores (scores) are respectively determined by the card reader The data is written on the IC tag built in the IC card by the writer 65. The data written here can be referred to by the data content display process in S3.
On the other hand, when it is determined that the IC card is not inserted (S8: NO), the process is terminated.

  Next, the music selection processing program of S5 performed on the typing game machine 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 16 is a flowchart of the music selection processing program according to the first embodiment.

  In the song selection process, first, in S11, the song name and artist name (up to eight types in the first embodiment) of the song related to the stored song data are respectively acquired from the song data storage area 56 of the HDD 55.

  Then, based on the song name and artist name of the song acquired in S11, the song selection screen 15 (see FIG. 2) is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 (S12). On the song selection screen 15, a list of the acquired song names is displayed in the playable song name display unit 16, and the selected song name display unit 18 and the selected artist name display unit 19 are selected by the song selection cursor 17. The song name and artist name of the song are displayed.

  Subsequently, in S13, it is determined whether or not the cursor key 114 is pressed. Here, whether or not the cursor key 114 has been pressed is determined based on the operation signal transmitted from the keyboard 6, and if it is determined that the cursor key 114 has been pressed (S13: YES), the cursor key 114 is determined. The music selection cursor 17 displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 is moved in the pressed direction based on the operation (which key is pressed up, down, left, or right) (S14).

  In S15, the display of the selected song name display unit 18 and the selected artist name display unit 19 is changed to the song name and artist name corresponding to the song newly selected by the song selection cursor 17 moved in S14. Thereafter, the process returns to the determination process of S13.

  On the other hand, when it is determined that the cursor key 114 has not been pressed (S13: NO), it is subsequently determined in S16 whether the enter key 112 has been pressed. If it is determined that the enter key 112 has been pressed (S16: YES), the music at which the music selection cursor 17 is currently positioned is set as the music for the current typing game (S17). Be started. On the other hand, if it is determined that the enter key 112 has not been pressed (S16: NO), the process returns to the determination process of S13 again.

  Next, the typing game execution processing program of S6 performed on the typing game machine 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 17 is a flowchart of the typing game execution processing program according to the first embodiment.

  In the typing game execution process, the CPU 51 first corresponds to the music selected by the music selection process of S5 among the music data stored in each storage area (see FIG. 14) of the music data storage area 56 of the HDD in S21. Read music data. In particular, the lyrics data stored in the lyrics data storage area 56D is divided for each phrase and temporarily stored in the RAM 54.

  Next, the main game screen (see FIGS. 3B and 4B) is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 in S22. At this time, no character string is displayed on the lyrics display unit 22 and the Roman character display unit 23, and the score and score display on the score display unit 27 are also "0".

  Subsequently, in S23, based on the video data stored in the video data storage area 56A, the display of the PV video 20 related to the music selected on the second liquid crystal display 4 is started (FIG. 3A and FIG. 4). A)). Further, accompaniment music is output via the speaker 8 based on the performance data stored in the performance data storage area 56B, and sound is output based on the audio data stored in the sound data storage area 56C. As a result, the music is played and the PV video 20 is reproduced accordingly.

  Next, the lyrics for one phrase of the lyrics data stored in the RAM 54 are acquired in S24. Then, the character string display process of FIG. 18 for displaying the character string 22A corresponding to the acquired lyric data on the lyric display unit 22 of the main game screen 21 is performed (S25). In the character string display process, as will be described later, a lottery process in which a part of the character string 22A is replaced with the blank character area 40 and displayed (whether a part of the character string is not displayed) is selected. The character string 22A and the blank character area 40 are displayed based on the lottery result.

  Thereafter, in S26, the number n of characters of one phrase is calculated based on the lyrics data of one phrase acquired in S24, and 0 is substituted for an arbitrary variable m stored in the RAM 54 (S27). Here, the arbitrary variable m is a variable used for character input determination for each character forming one phrase, and is incremented by one each time input determination for one character is completed (S34). Therefore, in each input determination process repeatedly performed in the following S28 to S35, when m = t (0 ≦ t ≦ n−1), input determination of the character positioned at the t + 1th position from the head of one phrase is performed. It will be.

  Furthermore, in S28, based on the operation signal from the keyboard 6, it is determined whether or not the key input by the character input key 111 has been performed. If it is determined that there is a key input (S28: YES), the correctness determination process for the input key is performed based on the type of the pressed key and the determination reference data stored in the determination reference data storage area 56E. (S29). Specifically, when the key corresponding to the character string 22A displayed on the lyrics display section 22 (see FIGS. 3B and 4B) of the main game screen 21 is pressed, it is the correct type. Be recognized. If it is determined that a key other than the corresponding key has been pressed, 1 is added to the number of misses. Thereafter, the process proceeds to S32.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that there is no key input (S28: NO), a character string corresponding to one phrase is displayed on the main game screen 21 for a predetermined time (when the first character of one phrase is input). After (S25), when other characters are input, score calculation processing is performed (measured after (S33).) It is determined based on the information of the timer 58 (S30). ). And when it determines with predetermined time not having passed (S30: NO), it returns to the process of S28.

  On the other hand, when the CPU 51 determines that the predetermined time has elapsed (S30: YES), it is determined that the key input by the player has not been performed, and the number of mistakes in the current game stored in the RAM 54 is incremented by one. (S31).

  Subsequently, in S32, a light emission process of the key is performed based on the full color LED 155 provided inside the key of the keyboard 6. Specifically, in the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, when there is a key input (S28: YES) and when it is determined that the correct type has been made, the pressed character input key 111 is displayed in blue. Make it emit light. If there is a key input (S28: YES), and it is determined that the wrong type has been made, the pressed character input key 111 is lit red, and the correct key to be input is lit green. . Further, when there is no key input (S28: NO), the correct key to be input is illuminated in green.

  In S33, a score calculation process is performed based on the correctness determination process in S29. In the score calculation process, the player's score (score) in the current game stored in the RAM 54 is added when it is determined that it is correctly typed in the determination by the right / wrong determination process, and the music to be played If it is determined that the corresponding character has been typed at the same timing as the voice, the score is further added.

  Thereafter, in S34, the variable m stored in the RAM 54 is read, "+1" is added, and the variable m is stored again. Subsequently, in S35, it is determined whether or not the value of the variable m has reached n-1, that is, whether or not the character input determination for each character forming one phrase has been completed.

  If it is determined that the value of the variable m has not reached n−1 (S35: NO), the process returns to S28 again and is positioned in the next order among the characters constituting one phrase. Character input judgment is performed.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the value of the variable m has reached n−1 (S35: YES), input of one phrase has been completed, and therefore point addition processing is performed in S36. In the point addition process, one point is added when it is determined that the input has been completed without making a typo in the n characters constituting one phrase (including the determination of a typo after a predetermined time (S31)). .

  Thereafter, the correct character string display process of FIG. 19 is performed in S37. In the correct character string display process, when the blank character area 40 is displayed by being replaced with a part of the character string 22A as will be described later, the correct character string that has been a blank character is displayed for the blank character area 40. Display (see FIG. 7).

  Further, in S38, it is determined whether or not the input determination of the phrase of the stage corresponding to any one of a plurality of song numbers (usually one song is composed of Nos. 1 to 3) constituting the song is completed. Is done. If it is determined that the input determination of all phrases for one stage has not been completed (S38: NO), the process returns to S24, the lyrics of the next phrase are acquired from the RAM 54, and the main game screen 21 is displayed. The corresponding character string is displayed on the lyrics display unit 22.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the input determination of all phrases for one stage has been completed (S38: YES), whether or not the input determination of phrases for all stages (all songs of the music) has been completed. Is determined (S39).

  If it is determined that all stages have been completed (S39: YES), the typing game execution process is terminated regardless of the points owned by the player, and the process proceeds to the game result display process of S7. On the other hand, if it is determined that all the stages have not been completed (S39: NO), it is determined whether or not the number of typographical errors of the player added up in S29 and S31 is less than a predetermined number. (S40). The typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment includes a plurality of stages according to the number of music numbers of the music to be played back, and continues the stage related to the next music number when one stage is completed. In order to play the game, it is necessary that the number of typing mistakes from the start of the game is less than a predetermined number (for example, to continue playing number 2 after playing the portion corresponding to number 1 is a typo. Less than 20 times, less than 35 times to continue No. 3 after playing the part corresponding to No. 2).

  If it is determined that the number of typographical errors of the player added in S29 or S31 is less than the predetermined number (S40: YES), the process returns to S24 and corresponds to the first phrase of the next song number. Lyrics are acquired from the RAM 54, and a character string corresponding to the main game screen 21 is displayed on the lyrics display unit 22. Then, input determination processing is performed in the same manner. On the other hand, when it is determined that the number of typographical errors of the player is equal to or greater than the predetermined number (S40: NO), the typing game execution process is terminated, and the process proceeds to a game result display process of S7.

  Next, the character string display processing program of S25 executed in the typing game machine 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 18 is a flowchart of the character string display processing program according to the first embodiment.

  In the character string display process, first, when displaying the phrase corresponding to the lyrics data acquired in S24 in S41, whether or not to display a part of the displayed character string 22A with the blank character area 40 is displayed. A replacement display lottery process for lottering (whether or not to hide part of the character string 22A) is performed. Specifically, the lottery is performed using the replacement lottery table 45 (FIG. 8) from the random value sampled by the random number sampling circuit 73.

  In the subsequent determination process in S42, it is determined whether or not a part of the character string 22A is replaced with the blank character area 40 and displayed based on the lottery result of the replacement display lottery process in S41. Specifically, when the range of the sampled random number value is “0” to “3”, it is determined to be replaced with the blank character area 40 (S42: YES), and the process proceeds to S43. On the other hand, when the range of the sampled random number values is “4” to “19”, it is determined that the full-text character string 22A is displayed without being replaced with the blank character area 40 (S42: NO), and S47. Move to F.

  In S43, the point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) is calculated, and the “current number of points acquired by the player” stored in the RAM 54 is also stored in the RAM 54 “played to date in the current game” The point acquisition rate is calculated by dividing by the “total number of stages”.

  Subsequently, in S44, the number of blank characters (the number of characters to be hidden) is determined using the point acquisition rate calculated in S43 and the blank character number determination table 46 (see FIG. 9). Specifically, when the point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) is 0.5 or more (S44: YES), the number of blank characters is set to 5 characters, and the characters corresponding to the lyrics data acquired in S24 A blank character area 40 composed of a column 22A and five parenthesis symbols 40A is displayed on the lyrics display section 22 of the main game screen 21 (S45, see FIG. 6B). At this time, the character string 22A that is not displayed as a blank character is a partial character string (for example, “flapping” in FIG. 6B) defined in advance by the lyrics data.

  On the other hand, when the point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) is less than 0.5 (S44: NO), the number of blank characters is set to 3 characters, and the character string 22A corresponding to the lyric data acquired in S24. Are displayed on the lyrics display portion 22 of the main game screen 21 (see S45, FIG. 6B). At this time, the character string 22A that is not displayed as a blank character is a part of the character string (for example, “Draw” in FIG. 6A) defined in advance by the lyric data.

  If it is determined by the determination process in S42 that the full-text character string 22A is displayed without being replaced with the blank character region 40, the full-text of the character string 22A corresponding to the lyrics data acquired in S24 is displayed. This is displayed on the lyrics display section 22 of the main game screen 21 (S47, see FIG. 4B). Thereafter, the character string display process is terminated, and the process proceeds to S26.

  Next, the correct character string display processing program of S37 executed on the typing game machine 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 19 is a flowchart of the correct character string display processing program according to the first embodiment.

  In the correct character string display process, first, in S51, whether or not a part of the character string 22A is replaced with the blank character region 40 and displayed for the phrase displayed this time based on the lottery result of the replacement display lottery process of S41. Is determined. If it is determined that the full-text character string 22A is displayed without being replaced with the blank character area 40 (S51: NO), the correct character string display process is terminated, and the determination process of S38 is performed. Transition.

On the other hand, if it is determined that the display is replaced with the blank character area 40 (S51: YES), the correct character string 41 corresponding to the lyrics of the music played within the displayed parenthesis symbol 40A. (For example, “Tap” in FIG. 6A and “Tap” in FIG. 6B) is newly displayed (see FIG. 7). Thereby, the player can recognize a correct character string related to the blank portion that has not been displayed.
Thereafter, the correct character string display process is terminated, and the process proceeds to the determination process of S38.

As described above, the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment allows the first liquid crystal display 3 to display a piece of music in a state in which coins such as coins are inserted into the coin insertion slot 9 and the typing game execution process (S6) is started. Whether or not to hide the character string 22A for one phrase corresponding to the lyrics of the phrase by replacing a part of the character string 22A of the phrase with the blank character region 40 when the character string 22A is displayed on the main game screen 21. (S41), if it is determined that it is not displayed as a result of the lottery (S42: YES), a part of the character string is made into a blank character area 40 composed of 3 or 5 parenthesis symbols 40A. Since the replacement is displayed, a new game mode of predicting a non-displayed character string can be configured in addition to performing typing, thereby improving game playability. Therefore, even when the game is repeatedly performed, the game is not monotonized and the player is not bored. In addition, since a high score cannot be obtained unless the lyrics of the music are memorized, it becomes possible to enjoy the game sufficiently even for an advanced typing person.
Further, whether or not to replace the blank character area 40 and display is determined randomly based on the result of the internal lottery, so that a part of the character string 22A is not displayed at a timing unpredictable to the player. It is possible to improve the playability. Further, even when the game is repeated, the timing at which the blank character area 40 is displayed every time the game is played is different, so that the player is not bored.
Further, since the number of blank characters in the blank character area 40 displayed varies depending on the point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) (S44 to S46), it is not suitable for a player having a high point acquisition rate (correct answer rate). It is possible to increase the difficulty of the game by increasing the number of characters that are displayed, and to reduce the difficulty of the game by reducing the number of characters that are hidden for players with a low point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) It becomes. As a result, a game that matches the player's level becomes possible, and the player's willingness to play is improved.

The typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment includes two liquid crystal displays, a first liquid crystal display 3 and a second liquid crystal display 4, and performs on the second liquid crystal display 4 disposed above the housing 2. The video 20 of the promotion video related to the music to be played is displayed (S23), and the character string corresponding to the lyrics of the music is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 arranged below the housing 2 in parallel therewith. Since the game screen 21 is displayed (S22, S24), it is possible to provide a variety of typing games using the display contents respectively displayed on the two screens as compared with the case where only one display is used. . Therefore, it is possible to increase the game motivation without getting bored of the player who performs the typing game.
In addition, since the video 20 of the promotional video that is not directly required for the progress of the typing game is not displayed on the main game screen 21, it becomes easy for the player to recognize necessary information and the game can be concentrated. It becomes.
Furthermore, by displaying the promotional video 20 using an independent liquid crystal display, a typing game can be played in an unprecedented situation where the artist sings along with the performance of the song. And never get bored of the player.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a typing game machine according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. In the following description, the same reference numerals as those of the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment in FIGS. 1 to 19 denote the same or corresponding parts as those of the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment. It is shown.

The schematic configuration of the typing game machine according to the second embodiment is substantially the same as that of the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment. Various control processes are also substantially the same as those of the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment.
However, only in one game mode in which the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment displays a part of the character string 22A displayed on the lyrics display unit 22 in a state where the character string 22A is replaced with the blank character region 40 at an arbitrary timing. On the other hand, the typing game machine according to the second embodiment controls the game based on a plurality of types of game modes (“NORMAL mode”, “HARD mode”, and “ULTRA-HARD mode”). The desired game mode can be selected, and in particular, when the ULTRA-HARD mode is selected as the game mode, a character string (specifically, a performance target) is displayed on the main game screen 221 as described later. The player's lyric) is not displayed at all, and the player is typed based solely on the accompaniment music being played. That is different from the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment in that.

  First, a main processing program executed in the typing game machine according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 20 is a flowchart of the main processing program of the typing game machine according to the second embodiment. 20 to 22 are stored in the ROM 53 and the RAM 54 provided in the typing game machine according to the second embodiment, and are executed by the CPU 51.

  Here, the processing of S101 to S104 in the main processing is the same as the processing of S1 to S4 (see FIG. 15) of the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, and the description thereof is omitted.

  In S105, a game mode selection process is performed in which one game mode is selected from a plurality of game modes and set as a game mode related to the current game. In the typing game machine according to the second embodiment, when a predetermined amount of coins (100 yen coins, etc.) is inserted into the coin insertion slot 9 (200 yen in the second embodiment), the first liquid crystal display 3 is loaded. A game mode selection screen 201 is displayed, and the player can select a desired game mode from three types of game modes of “NORMAL mode”, “HARD mode”, and “ULTRA-HARD mode”. In a typing game execution process (S107) described later, a typing game is executed in a game format based on the selected game mode.

Hereinafter, the game mode selection screen 201 displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 when the game mode selection process of S105 is executed will be described with reference to FIG.
As shown in FIG. 23, the game mode selection screen 201 includes a NORMAL selection unit 202 displayed as “NORMAL”, a HARD selection unit 203 displayed as “HARD”, and an ULTRA-displayed as “ULTRA HARD”. A HARD selection unit 204, and a mode selection cursor 205 capable of selecting any of the NORMAL selection unit 202, the HARD selection unit 203, and the ULTRA-HARD selection unit 204 are configured.

  The mode selection cursor 205 can move up and down the NORMAL selection unit 202, the HARD selection unit 203, and the ULTRA-HARD selection unit 204 by operating the cursor key 114 (see FIG. 10) of the keyboard 6. When the enter key 112 (see FIG. 10) is pressed in a state where the desired game mode is positioned on the selected part, the game mode is set as the game mode of the current game.

  Thereafter, in S106, the music selection process shown in FIG. 16 is performed, and in S107, the typing game execution process of FIGS. 21 and 22 is performed based on the game mode set in S105 and the music set in S106. Done. In the typing game execution process, a game is played until a predetermined end condition is satisfied according to each game format corresponding to the game mode set as described later, and a score is played and points are scored based on the type result of the keyboard 6. Is added.

  Further, the processing of S108 to S110 in the subsequent main processing is the same as the processing of S7 to S9 (see FIG. 15) of the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, and the description thereof is omitted.

  Next, the typing game execution processing program in S107 performed by the typing game machine according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 21 is a flowchart of a typing game execution processing program according to the second embodiment.

  In the typing game execution process, first, in S111, the game mode set in S105 is read. In S112, it is determined whether or not the game mode read in S111 is “NORMAL mode”.

  If it is determined that the read game mode is “NORMAL mode” (S112: YES), a first typing game execution process that is a game based on the NORMAL mode is performed (S113). Here, in the first typing game execution process, as shown in FIGS. 3 (B) and 4 (B), a character string to be typed in the lyrics display unit 22 (specifically, lyrics of the music to be played). Is always displayed in full text. Then, based on the operation signal from the keyboard 6 and the determination reference data stored in the determination reference data storage area 56E, the correctness of the input key is determined, and the score and the number of mistakes are added based on the correctness determination result. Perform typing game processing. Note that details of the first typing game execution process executed by the typing game machine according to the second embodiment are omitted.

  On the other hand, when it is determined that the read game mode is not “NORMAL mode” (S112: NO), it is subsequently determined whether or not the game mode read in S111 is “HARD mode”. It is determined (S114).

  When it is determined that the read game mode is the “HARD mode” (S114: YES), a second typing game execution process that is a game based on the HARD mode is performed (S115). Here, in the second typing game execution process, as shown in FIGS. 6B and 7B, a character string (specifically, a character string to be typed) displayed on the lyrics display unit 22 at random is displayed. Hide part of the lyrics). Then, based on the operation signal from the keyboard 6 and the determination reference data stored in the determination reference data storage area 56E, the correctness of the input key is determined, and the score and the number of mistakes are added based on the correctness determination result. Perform typing game processing. The second typing game execution process executed by the typing game machine according to the second embodiment is the same process as the typing game execution process (FIG. 17) according to the first embodiment. Omitted.

  When it is determined that the read game mode is not “HARD mode” (S114: NO), that is, when the read game mode is determined to be “ULTRA-HARD mode”, A third typing game execution process, which is a game based on the ULTRA-HARD mode, is performed (S116). Here, in the third typing game execution process, the character string (specifically, the lyrics of the music to be played) that is the target of typing is not displayed on the main game screen 221, and the voice data storage area 56C is displayed. The output of only the accompaniment music based on the performance data stored in the performance data storage area 56B is performed without outputting the sound based on the sound data stored in the performance data. Then, based on the operation signal from the keyboard 6 and the determination reference data stored in the determination reference data storage area 56E, the correctness of the input key is determined, and the score and the number of mistakes are added based on the correctness determination result. Perform typing game processing.

  Below, the 3rd typing game execution processing program of said S116 performed with the typing game machine which concerns on 2nd Embodiment is demonstrated based on FIG. FIG. 22 is a flowchart of the third typing game execution processing program according to the second embodiment.

  In the third typing game execution process, the CPU 51 first selects the song data selected by the song selection process in S106 from the song data stored in each storage area (see FIG. 14) of the song data storage area 56 of the HDD in S121. Read the corresponding music data. In particular, the lyrics data stored in the lyrics data storage area 56D is divided for each phrase and temporarily stored in the RAM 54.

  Next, in S122, the main game screen 221 in which the character string to be typed is not displayed is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3. Subsequently, in S123, based on the video data stored in the video data storage area 56A, the display of the PV video 210 related to the music selected on the second liquid crystal display 4 is started. Further, accompaniment music based on the performance data stored in the performance data storage area 56B is output via the speaker 8. As a result, only the accompaniment music excluding the sound of the music is played, and the PV video 210 is reproduced accordingly.

  Hereinafter, display contents of the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4 during execution of the third typing game after S122 will be described with reference to FIG. FIGS. 24A and 24B show the display contents of the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4 when a female artist selects a predetermined piece of music and starts a typing game.

  As shown in FIG. 24A, the second liquid crystal display 4 displays a video image 210 of a female artist singing along with the accompaniment music of the music played through the speaker 8. However, the voice of the female artist who sings is not output from the speaker 8.

  Note that, as shown in FIG. 24A, an artist name information display in which the name of the artist currently performing is displayed at the upper left end of the second liquid crystal display 4 on which the PV image 210 is displayed. Section 211 is provided, and at the lower right end of the second liquid crystal display 4 on which the PV image 210 is displayed, a song name information display section 212 for displaying the name of the currently playing song is provided. .

  On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 24B, a main game screen 221 relating to the progress of the typing game is displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 in parallel with the display of the PV image 210 on the second liquid crystal display 4. .

  The main game screen 221 includes an input lyrics display section 222 that displays the lyrics already input by the player among the lyrics of the phrases that are currently being played, and a phrase ( "Phrase)" indicates the number of the song number (the number of stages) and the number of the phrase that is counted from the beginning of the corresponding song number, and the score obtained by the player so far (Score), a score display section 227 for displaying points, a music information display section 228 for displaying the name and song name of the artist who is currently playing, and a PV image displayed on the second liquid crystal display 4 are reduced. And a reduced PV display portion 229 displayed.

  Here, the input lyric display unit 222 does not display a character string as shown in FIG. 24B when the player is not typing for the currently played phrase part. . On the other hand, in the lyrics of one phrase of the currently played music, the character string 230 corresponding to the lyric part typed in the appropriate timing with the correct lyric is displayed on the input lyric display unit 222 after typing. (S131, see FIG. 25).

  Next, in S123, the lyrics for one phrase of the lyrics data stored in the RAM 54 are acquired. Thereafter, in S125, the number of characters n of one phrase is calculated based on the lyrics data of one phrase acquired in S124, and 0 is substituted for an arbitrary variable m stored in the RAM 54 (S126). Here, the arbitrary variable m is a variable used for character input determination for each character forming one phrase, and is incremented by one every time input determination for one character is completed (S133). Accordingly, in each input determination process repeatedly performed in the following S127 to S134, when m = t (0 ≦ t ≦ n−1), input determination of the character located at the t + 1th position from the beginning of one phrase is performed. It will be.

  Furthermore, in S127, based on the operation signal from the keyboard 6, it is determined whether or not the key input by the character input key 111 has been performed. If it is determined that there is a key input (S127: YES), the correctness determination process for the input key is performed based on the type of the pressed key and the determination reference data stored in the determination reference data storage area 56E. (S128). Specifically, the correct type is recognized when a key corresponding to the lyrics of the music to be played is pressed. If it is determined that a key other than the corresponding key has been pressed, 1 is added to the number of misses. Thereafter, the process proceeds to S131.

  On the other hand, when it is determined that there is no key input (S127: NO), it is determined based on the information of the timer 58 whether or not the input timing of the character positioned at the m + 1st position from the beginning of one phrase has elapsed ( S129). Here, the input timing is a predetermined period (for example, 127.5 seconds to 128.8 seconds after the start of performance) for each character constituting the phrase, and the period is a criterion. It is stored in the data storage area 56E. And when it determines with the input timing not having passed (S129: NO), it returns to the process of S127.

  On the other hand, when the CPU 51 determines that the input timing has passed (S129: YES), it is determined that the player has not performed key input within the appropriate input timing, and the current time stored in the RAM 54 is stored. The number of misses in the game is incremented by 1 (S130).

Thereafter, correct character display processing is performed in S131. In the correct character display processing, only when it is determined that the correct key has been typed within the input timing, the character positioned at the m + 1st position from the beginning of one phrase is displayed on the input lyrics display section 222 of the main game screen 221. Let
For example, FIG. 25 shows a case where the characters of the lyrics portion of “Take” in the phrase “If it flaps like a bird” could not be input properly. Only the lyric portions of “Haba” and “Nara” are displayed by the character string 230. Thereby, it is possible to notify the player of the lyric part that the player can type appropriately.

  Subsequently, in S132, key emission processing is performed based on the full-color LED 155 provided inside the key of the keyboard 6. Specifically, in the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, when there is a key input within the input timing (S127: YES), and when it is determined that the correct type has been made, the character input pressed The key 111 is caused to emit blue light. If there is a key input within the input timing (S127: YES) and it is determined that the wrong type has been made, the pressed character input key 111 is red, and the correct key to be input is green. Each emits light. Further, if there is no key input within the input timing (S127: NO), the correct key to be input is emitted in green.

  In S133, score calculation processing is performed based on the correctness determination processing in S128. In the score calculation process, the player's score (score) in the current game stored in the RAM 54 is added when it is determined that it is correctly typed in the determination by the right / wrong determination process, and the music to be played If it is determined that the corresponding character is typed at the same timing as the sound to be output in accordance with the accompaniment music, a score is further added.

  Thereafter, in S134, the variable m stored in the RAM 54 is read out, "+1" is added, and the variable m is stored again. Subsequently, in S135, it is determined whether or not the value of the variable m has reached n-1, that is, whether or not the character input determination for each character forming one phrase has been completed.

  When it is determined that the value of the variable m has not reached n−1 (S135: NO), the process returns to S127 again and is positioned in the next order among the characters constituting one phrase. Character input judgment is performed.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the value of the variable m has reached n−1 (S135: YES), input of one phrase has been completed, and therefore point addition processing is performed in S136. In the point addition process, one point is added when it is determined that the input has been completed without making a typo in the n characters constituting one phrase (including the determination of a typo after a predetermined time (S130)). .

  Furthermore, in S137, it is determined whether or not the input determination of the phrase of the stage corresponding to any one of a plurality of song numbers (usually, one song is composed of Nos. 1 to 3) constituting the song is completed. Is done. If it is determined that the input determination of all phrases for one stage has not been completed (S137: NO), the process returns to S124, and the lyrics of the next phrase are acquired from the RAM 54.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the input determination of all phrases for one stage has been completed (S137: YES), whether or not the input determination of phrases for all stages (all songs in the music) has been completed. Is determined (S138).

  If it is determined that all stages have been completed (S138: YES), the typing game execution process is terminated regardless of the points owned by the player, and the process proceeds to the game result display process of S108. On the other hand, if it is determined that all the stages have not been completed (S138: NO), it is determined whether or not the number of typographical errors of the player added to S128 or S130 is less than a predetermined number. (S139).

  If it is determined that the number of typographical errors of the player added in S128 or S130 is less than the predetermined number (S139: YES), the process returns to S124 and corresponds to the first phrase of the next song number. The lyrics are acquired from the RAM 54. Then, input determination processing is performed in the same manner. On the other hand, when it is determined that the number of typographical errors of the player is equal to or greater than the predetermined number (S139: NO), the typing game execution process is terminated and the process proceeds to a game result display process of S108.

As described above, the typing game machine 1 according to the second embodiment displays the game mode selection screen 201 for selecting the game mode on the first liquid crystal display 3 after coins such as coins are inserted into the coin insertion slot 9. In particular, when the ULTRA-HARD mode is set as the game mode, the lyrics of the music to be played that is the character string to be typed on the main game screen 221 are hidden, and only the accompaniment music of the music is displayed on the speaker. Since it is output from 8, it does not perform typing by recognizing visually input characters based on the displayed character string, but by typing characters by recognizing auditory input characters and input timing based on the music being played. It is possible to select and provide a new game to be performed according to the player's will.
Also, since you cannot get a high score if you do not remember the lyrics and singing timing of the song, you can improve the willingness to play the game again, even if you are an advanced typing player, you can fully enjoy the game It becomes possible.

In addition, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, A various change is possible in the range which does not deviate from the meaning.
For example, in the typing game machine 1 according to the first embodiment, it is determined whether the player is an advanced player based on the point acquisition rate (correct answer rate) (S44), and the number of characters to be hidden is changed. However, the number of characters to be hidden may be changed according to the ratio of the number of typing errors to the total number of stages played by the player.

  In the first embodiment, the number of blank characters is set to either 3 or 5 characters and the blank character area 40 is displayed. However, the number of blank characters is limited to 3 or 5 characters. The entire displayed character string may be a blank character. This makes it possible to provide a new game mode that allows the player to input lyrics based only on the music played by the player. Furthermore, instead of hiding a part of the character string 22A, the character string 22A may be displayed by an option for selecting a correct character string from a plurality of character strings.

  In the second embodiment, when a game is played based on the game mode of “ULTRA-HARD mode”, PV images are displayed on the first liquid crystal display 3 and the second liquid crystal display 4. The PV video may not be displayed on each display. Thereby, the player cannot predict the lyrics based on the video of the PV, and the game can be provided to a more advanced player.

  In the second embodiment, when a game is played based on the game mode of “ULTRA-HARD mode”, only the accompaniment music of the selected music is output. You may make it output, and you may make it output both accompaniment music and a song voice.

  Further, in the second embodiment, when a game is played based on the game mode of “ULTRA-HARD mode”, the elapsed time after the performance of the song is started instead of the song status display unit 225 is displayed. Also good. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a new game in which the lyrics are predicted based on the elapsed time from the start of the music performance and the typing is performed.

  The typing game machine 1 according to the first and second embodiments is connected to the server 80 via a network N capable of bidirectional communication such as the Internet, and based on data transmitted from the server 80. The music data stored in the HDD 55 (see FIG. 13) of the typing game machine 1 can be updated. However, the music data may be updated independently of the server 80.

  In addition, as described above, the case-type typing game machine 1 installed in a game center or the like has been described as an example of the typing game apparatus according to the present invention, but a typing game apparatus that installs software on a PC is also described. Its application is possible. The present invention can also be applied to a typing game of a home game device supplied as a medium such as a cartridge or a CD-ROM. The typing game may be built in the home game device.

It is a perspective view of the typing game machine concerning a 1st embodiment. It is the schematic diagram which showed the display content displayed on a 1st liquid crystal display before a typing game start. (A) is a schematic diagram showing display contents displayed on the second liquid crystal display while the typing game is in progress, and (B) is a schematic diagram showing display contents displayed on the first liquid crystal display while the typing game is in progress. is there. (A) is a schematic diagram showing display contents displayed on the second liquid crystal display while the typing game is in progress, and (B) is a schematic diagram showing display contents displayed on the first liquid crystal display while the typing game is in progress. is there. It is the schematic diagram which showed the display content displayed on a 1st liquid crystal display after completion | finish of a typing game. (A) is a schematic diagram showing the display content displayed on the first liquid crystal display when a blank character area in which the number of blank characters is set to three is displayed, and (B) is a diagram showing five blank characters. It is the schematic diagram which showed the display content displayed on the 1st liquid crystal display when the blank character area | region set to the character was displayed. It is the schematic diagram which showed the display content displayed on the 1st liquid crystal display at the time of the completion | finish of the type of 1 phrase when a blank character area | region is displayed. It is the figure shown about the substitution lottery table which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is the figure shown about the blank character number determination table which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is the top view which showed the keyboard with which the typing game machine which concerns on 1st Embodiment was equipped. It is the schematic sectional drawing which cut | disconnected any one of the some key provided in the keyboard. 1 is a system block diagram illustrating a system including a typing game machine and a server according to a first embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows typically the control system of the typing game machine which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the music data storage area of HDD of the typing game machine which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the main process program of the typing game machine which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the music selection process program of the typing game machine which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the typing game execution processing program of the typing game machine which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the character string display processing program of the typing game machine which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the correct character string display process program of the typing game machine which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the main process program of the typing game machine which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the typing game execution processing program of the typing game machine which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the 3rd typing game execution processing program of the typing game machine which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is the schematic diagram which showed the game mode selection screen displayed on a 1st liquid crystal display at the time of selection of game mode. (A) is the schematic diagram which showed the display content displayed on a 2nd liquid crystal display in the progress of the typing game by ULTRA-HARD mode, (B) is the schematic diagram which showed the display content displayed on a 1st liquid crystal display. is there. It is the schematic diagram which showed the display content displayed on a 1st liquid crystal display during the typing game progress by ULTRA-HARD mode.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Typing game machine 2 Case 3 1st liquid crystal display 4 2nd liquid crystal display 6 Keyboard 8 Speaker 20 Promotion video image 21 Main game screen 22 Lyric display part 22A Character string 23 Roman character display part 40 Blank character area 40A Parenthesis symbol 45 Substitution lottery Table 46 Blank character count determination table 51 CPU
53 ROM
54 RAM
55 HDD
56 Music data storage area 60 Display control circuit 61 Sound control circuit

Claims (6)

Image display means for displaying a predetermined character string related to the game;
An input means in which a plurality of keys corresponding to a plurality of characters are arranged;
Correctness determination means for determining whether or not the character string input by the input means matches the predetermined character string;
In a typing game apparatus having game control means for controlling a game based on a determination result of the correctness determination means,
A typing game apparatus, comprising: a display control unit configured to hide a part or all of the predetermined character string displayed on the image display unit when a predetermined condition is satisfied. Timing determining means for determining a timing to hide a part or all of the predetermined character string;
2. The typing game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein whether or not the predetermined condition is satisfied is determined based on a timing determined by the timing determination unit.   The typing game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit changes a length of the character string that is not displayed based on a determination result of the correctness determination unit. Song data storage means for storing song data;
Music performance processing means for playing music at a specified tempo and outputting sound based on the music data stored in the music data storage means;
4. The typing game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined character string is a character string related to a sound output by the music performance processing means. Song data storage means for storing song data;
Music performance processing means for playing music based on the music data stored in the music data storage means;
Image display means for displaying a predetermined character string associated with music played by the music performance processing means;
An input means in which a plurality of keys corresponding to a plurality of characters are arranged;
Correctness determination means for determining whether or not the character string input by the input means matches the predetermined character string;
In a typing game apparatus having game control means for controlling a game based on a determination result of the correctness determination means,
A typing game apparatus comprising character string non-display control means for hiding all of the predetermined character strings in the image display means. Having a game mode selection means for selecting one game mode from a plurality of types of game modes;
6. The typing game according to claim 5, wherein, when a predetermined game mode is selected by the game mode selection means, the character string non-display control means hides all of the predetermined character strings. apparatus.

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