SIMULATOR AND SIMULATION PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simulation environment excellent in responsibility and capable of maintaining amusement as game play. SOLUTION: A simulator has an operation section (20) allocated with operation switches of a game machine, a simulation control section (101) for controlling the simulation of the game machine, and a simulation executing section (103) for simulating the game play during advancing while referring-renewing status information in the game play during advancing, determines the performance in the next game play based on the status information in the game play during advancing in a predetermined timing before the next game play begins, starts to read the specific movie data from an outer recording medium (109) in the case the performance in the determined next game play needs to read the specific movie data, and executes the pseudo reading to the outer recording medium (109) in the case there is no need to read the specific movie data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT