Abstract: A player can change the direction of the right hand of a character object, or extend and retract the right arm of the character object, by changing the direction of the core unit 70. The player can change the direction of the left hand of the character object, or extend and retract the left arm of the character object by changing the direction of the subunit 76. The player can retract and extend a leg of the character object, by shifting the center of gravity in the front-back direction when the player is standing on the load controller 36.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes a first LCD and a second LCD, and on the second LCD, a touch panel is set. On the first LCD and the second LCD, game screens each including gear objects provided with a socket object are displayed. When a player makes a touch operation, the gear object on the game screen displayed on the second LCD is rotated in response thereto, one or more gear objects on the game screen displayed on the first LCD is accordingly rotated. At that time, a ball object held in the socket object of the gear object moves to other gear object. When each of the ball objects are accepted (held) in the socket object of the gear objects each applied with the same color as that of the ball objects, the puzzle game is cleared.

Abstract: A movement controlling apparatus includes a pointing device for operating a movement of an object. A distance between a straight line connecting previous input coordinates and current input coordinates and a central point of the object is calculated. A velocity of the object is calculated on the basis of the distance to thereby control a movement of the object.