It is an object of the present invention to increase the game operability,
and to increase the feeling of pressure and feeling of actual presence on
the scene, by making it possible to display partial enlarged images of
the scope displays or each of a plurality of players in a manner that
allows mutual influence on the screen on which the game images are
displayed. The apparatus of the present invention is a video game
apparatus in which the game is caused to proceed by shooting with four
imitation guns 30 from the front surface of a display part 11 on which
game images are displayed; in this apparatus, respective enlarged images
are created and displayed from an infrared camera 40 that can detect in a
discriminating manner respective light spots on the screen from the laser
light emitters 32 of the respective imitation guns 30, and positional
data of the images displayed in regions that include the light spots
corresponding to partial regions that include the respective light spots
on the screen of the display part 11.