Amusement devices: games – Simulated-projectile game – target therefor – or accessory
Patent
1995-06-20
1996-11-26
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Simulated-projectile game, target therefor, or accessory
446473, 463 50, 463 51, 434 20, 434 21, 434 22, A63F 902, F41J 502
Patent
active
055779620
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an gun game machine wherein the player takes out a model gun away from an enclosure and holds it by hand to play a game and, more particularly, a virtual bullet charging device to realize an imaginary charging of bullets into the model gun.
BACKGROUND ART
In prior art, a machine as illustrated for example in FIG. 3 is known as game machine in which the player takes out a gun model away from a casing of a game machine to play a game. This game machine includes a game machine casing 2 which comprises a built-in monitor 1 which displays a sequence of images changing according to an appropriate story. Two gun stands 4 are arranged on a front control panel 3 of the machine casing 2 and each gun stand 4 receives, respectively, one model gun 5.
Before playing a game, the player removes the model gun 5 from the gun stand and holds the model gun in his hand away from the machine casing. When the game begins, the monitor 1 displays predetermined images and the player pulls a trigger lever 6 of the gun model aiming at the shooting target within the displayed images. According to a judgment procedure belonging to a prior art well-known as itself, when the model gun 5 is judged to have shot the target precisely, the score shown in a score indication space displayed at a predetermined place within the monitor 1 will be increased.
As for real gums, as it is well-known, the number of bullets which can be loaded in them is limited to a certain quantity and it is necessary to load bullets when the number of bullets are fired. The conventional game machine is designed to oblige, usually, the player to simulate the action similar to the loading of bullets. For example, upon the completion of predetermined number of times of pulling the trigger lever 6 of the model gun 5, the subsequent pulling operation of the trigger lever 6 will makes no contribution to the progression of the game. Further, if the player wants to continue the game, the player is obliged to perform a convenient virtual loading action.
As such a virtual loading action, in the prior art, it is proposed to afford again the player a certain number, approximately 6 times, of trigger lever action if he had directed a light receiving portion provided at the tip of the model gun away from the monitor 1 and pulled once the trigger lever 6 in this state. Such a virtual loading action of the prior art, however, can not give the player a real feeling of loading bullets into the model gun and does not have realism.
The object of the present invention is to overcome the problems mentioned hereinbefore and to provide a very real feeling of loading action with a gun game machine wherein the player holds a model gun away from its casing.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
The virtual bullet loading device of the present invention relates to a virtual bullet loading device for a gun game machine in which the player takes out and holds a model gun away from a machine casing, comprising an advance and retreat member disposed at the bottom of the model gun and a loading detection sensor for detecting the shift of the advance and retreat member. The advance and retreat member steps back and forth between the forward position where it is advanced into the model gun and the backward position where it is remote from the model gun. Additionally, the loading detection sensor is designed to detect the shift of the advance and retreat member between its forward position and backward position.
The loading detection sensor may be constituted by a mechanical sensor such as a microswitch, a photoelectric sensor such as a photoswitch or a detecting element of any other type.
The advance and retreat member may be designed to normally stay in its backward position forced resiliently by the effect of a resilient force providing device such as a spring. Alternatively, an advance and retreat member holding device may be provided for fixing and holding the advance and retreat member selectively in its forward position or backward position to announce th
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Kikuchi Hideyuki
Kounoe Yutaka
Omori Yasushi
Layno Benjamin H.
Namco Limited
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