Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Ball games
Patent
1978-12-21
1980-04-15
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Ball games
273127R, 273359, 273387, 46212, 273DIG26, A63B 6300, A63H 2908
Patent
active
041980492
ABSTRACT:
A toy game of skill between two players is described wherein a track having a first end and a second end includes at least one surface extending between the first and the second end. Located at each end of the track and integrally mated with the track is a projectile launcher. At least one projectile, a small heavy spherical object, is ejected forcibly by the projectile launcher along the surface of the track. Resting on the track is an object member. The object member includes a self-propelling internal locomotion device which moves the object member back and forth reversibly between the projectile launchers located on the ends of the track. The object member also includes a reversing mechanism which reverses the direction of movement of the object member on the track and part of the reversing mechanism is an external trip member which projects out of the object member and if struck by the projectile, emitted from one of the projectile launchers when the object member is traveling toward that projectile launcher, the trip member is tripped causing the object member to reverse its direction toward the other projectile launcher. If the object member is allowed to approach within a certain distance from either one of the projectile launchers a signal is activated indicating that the player who was using that particular projectile launcher has been defeated.
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Games Magazine, Rec.'d 10/18/78, "Cross Fire Game" advertisement.
Anderson Lawrence E.
Boswell Kay H.
O'Brian Edward D.
Pinkham Richard C.
Tomy Kogyo Co. Inc.
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