Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Patent
1997-02-13
1999-01-19
O'Neill, Michael
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
273148B, A63F 922
Patent
active
058608613
ABSTRACT:
A riding board game controller for sending directional and non-directional control signals to an audio-visual game having a microprocessor-based host computer for sending audio-visual signals to a display device, the riding board game controller comprising: a substantially rectangular platform, pivotally supported along its central longitudinal axis on a playing surface and adapted to support an operator standing thereon, such that side-to-side pivoting of the platform can be performed by the operator; a biasing system, positioned between the platform and the playing surface, for biasing the platform away from the playing surface; a left dual-state switch, positioned between the platform and the playing surface, on the left side of the longitudinal axis, and activated by a pivoting of the platform to the left side; a right dual-state switch, positioned between the platform and the playing surface, on the right side of the longitudinal axis, and activated by a pivoting of the platform to the right side; a center dual-state switch, positioned between the platform and the playing surface, substantially along or near the longitudinal axis, and activated by a movement of the longitudinal axis towards or away from the playing surface; and a signal processor for converting signals from the left and right switches into directional control signals, for converting a signal from the center switch into a non-directional signal, and for sending the directional and non-directional control signals to the host computer.
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Lipps John D.
Svetina Gregory J.
Szczecinski Stephen J.
Lipps John D.
O'Neill Michael
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