Educational/board game apparatus

Details Educational/board game apparatus Educational/board game apparatus

1990-03-16

1992-02-18

Layno, Benjamin

Education and demonstration

Question or problem eliciting response

Correctness of response indicated to examine by...

273237, A63B 6700, G09B 700

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050889281

ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for educational games comprising a plurality of printed cards/boards, and a novel low-cost touch pad with interface cable to the personal computer game-port. When an eductional game is played, the player responds to computer questions/words/graphic object by pressing the corresponding answer in the printed card/board which is placed on top of the touch pad. This selection in terms of touched coordinates of the touch pad is sensed by the computer through the computer input/game port. Both computer generated sound and animation graphic pictures in terms of video games or others are used for either positive or negative feedback to the player. A variation of the same apparatus can be used for playing various computerized board games with a plurality of moving game pieces, and game boards by one or more players.

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Wiswell, Phil, "Electronic Gaming" (Dungeons & Dragons), Games, Aug. 1981, p. 46.

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