Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Simulated game
Patent
1998-03-05
1999-08-03
Chiu, Raleigh W.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Simulated game
273126A, 273121D, 273122A, A63F 706
Patent
active
059314656
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a game device for playing a game by moving on a play field board a moving body levitated by air emitted.
BACKGROUND ART
Hitherto, a game device for simulating an actual ball game such as hockey or soccer in which the game is played by moving a moving body levitated by air emitted in a state of small friction resistance has been known.
In such an air hockey game device, many holes are formed in a rectangular play field board spread over an upper surface of a game device box body and a disk-shaped puck is levitated by air emitted from the holes. Goals are provided on the right and left of the play field. Players standing behind the goals facing to each other repel the puck with mallets to compete for putting the puck in the goal of the opponent.
As the puck levitated has very small friction resistance and moves smoothly, a taste like the ice hockey can be obtained.
In such a manner, two players hit a puck mutually and victory or defeat is decided by the number of goals within a predetermined time.
When the puck enters one of the goals, the puck falls in a puck receptor opening on a side face of the game device box body and the player takes out the puck from the puck receptor to return it on the play field for starting the game again.
Therefore, the player has to take out the puck and place it on the play field every time the puck enters the goal. It is troublesome so that the player sometimes can not concentrate on the game and loss the interest.
If feeding puck is left to the player, the puck apt to be fed in an unnatural posture, because the player intends to place the puck on the ply field in a hurry. If the puck of the unnatural posture is hit by the mallet, an orbiting path of the puck becomes upward to cause an inconvenience that the puck jumps out of the field.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
The present invention has been accomplished in view of the foregoing and an object of the present invention is to provide a game device in which work of the player to feed the moving body on the play field is excluded, an inconvenience related to feed of moving body is dissolved and the player can concentrate on the play to be excited.
In order to achieve the object, the present invention provides a game device for playing a game by moving on a play field board a moving body levitated by air emitted from a number of holes formed in the play field board, comprising a moving body feeding device for automatically feeding the moving body onto the play field board.
Since the moving body is fed to a position suitable for hitting it on the play field board automatically by the moving body feeding device, the player is not required to place the moving body on the play field board himself, and can concentrate on the play only to be excited.
The moving body can be fed onto the play field board always in a pertinent posture and to a pertinent position, therefore an inconvenience such that the moving body jumps out of the field by operation of the player can be avoided.
The above-mentioned moving body feeding device comprises recovery means for recovering the moving body after use, lifting means for lifting the moving body recovered by the recovery means above the play field board, dropping means for dropping the moving body lifted by the lifting means, and guide means for guiding the moving body dropped by the dropping means onto the play field board.
The moving body recovered by the recovery means is next lifted above the play field board by the lifting means, dropped by the dropping means and then guided and fed onto the play field board by the guide means, thus the moving body can be fed automatically onto the play field board always pertinently.
The guide means may have a discharge outlet positioned at a height near an upper surface of the play field board, thereby the dropped moving body is guided so as to run out horizontally onto the play field board when moving direction of the moving body is changed to about horizontal direction. According to this constitution, the mo
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Matsunaga Tomohiro
Miyake Junji
Mizuno Shigetoshi
Suzuki Hiroyasu
Watanabe Shinji
Chiu Raleigh W.
Sega Enterprises Ltd.
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