To allow players to easily understand the positional relation between characters positioned outside a game screen and a ball keeping character in a ball game such as a soccer game.
Arrow-shaped marks M corresponding to respective player characters, or friends of the ball keeping character BC, positioned in an area outside the visual field are displayed on the a mark display area ME in the circumferential part in a game screen. The disposed positions of the marks M correspond to positions very close to the positions of the corresponding characters NC outside the visual filed, the directions of the marks M accord with the directions of the corresponding characters NC outside the visual field using the top/bottom/left/right directions in the game screen as a criteria, and the dimensions of the marks M correspond to the shortest distance between the corresponding characters NC outside the visual field and the visual field area VE.
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NAKANISHI TOSHIYUKI
Takekoshi Noboru
Enami Tomokazu
Inoue Ichi