Thumb twiddle operated amusement device

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1986-06-05

1988-01-26

Pinkham, Richard C.

Amusement devices: games

Games accessories

All video game accessories

272 67, 272 1R, 446236, 446175, 446176, 128 25R, A63H 3326

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047213086

ABSTRACT:
Thumb twiddling devices that include a flat, hand-held housing (23) having a centrally located wheel (21) with an oblong thumb slot (35) and finger slots (33a, 33b) peripherally located about the wheel are disclosed. Thumb twiddling causes the rotation of the wheel (21) when a user's fingers (63) are interleaved together in the finger slots (33a, 33b) such that the thumbs lie in the thumb slot (35). In a toy form of the invention, thumb twiddle wheel rotations are sensed and the result used to control a display (49). In a controller form of the invention, sensed thumb twiddle wheel rotations are used to provide control signals suitable for controlling the movement of a video game object. Direction (e.g., steering) signals are provided by a tilt sensor mounted in the flat housing. Several thumb twiddle controllers can be used simultaneously by several video game "players" to control their respective objects in an interactive game.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2819081 (1958-01-01), Touraine
patent: 3700836 (1972-10-01), Rackson
patent: 4227342 (1980-10-01), Knowles

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