Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-06
2008-05-06
Pezzuto, Robert E (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
active
10613096
ABSTRACT:
A game apparatus, a storage medium and a computer program, suitable to games that can be experienced by a player using an entire body to play a game. The game apparatus comprises: a storage section for storing a predetermined assigned movement for a player; an assigned movement display section for displaying the assigned movement, thereon; a movement detection section for detecting a movement of the player; a player movement display section for displaying the movement of the player detected by the movement detection section, thereon; a similarity decision section for comparing the assigned movement with the movement of the player detected by the movement detection section, to decide a similarity between the assigned movement and the movement of the player; and a game operation section for processing a score on the basis of the similarity decided by the similarity decision section.
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Parappa the Rapper, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Nov. 27, 1998 (w/Partial English Translation).
Endo Kyoko
Onda Akio
Suzuki Toshio
Watabe Hajime
Deodhar Omkar A.
NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.
Pezzuto Robert E
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