Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-20
2007-11-20
Hotaling, John (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
C463S030000, C463S038000, C463S046000, C463S047000, C200S061100
Reexamination Certificate
active
10738282
ABSTRACT:
The game controller including at least one control such as a joystick which includes at least two modes of operation. The game controller includes an invert switch which enables a player to switch between the different modes of operation. In one embodiment, the game controller includes a control which has a normal mode and an invert mode. The normal mode enables a player to move the joystick up or forward to correspondingly move up on the game display or move the joystick down or backward to correspondingly move on the game display. Conversely, the invert mode enables a player to move the joystick up or forward to correspondingly move down on the display and also move the joystick down or backward to move up on the display. The game controller enables the player to switch between the different modes of operation on the game controller itself instead of through the video game system or software for the game.
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Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLP
Hotaling John
Mattel Inc.
Torimiro Adetokunbo
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