Namco Limited

Hiroki Nakahata

Yoshihiro Mieda

Tatsuhisa Yabushita

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Shukuo Ishikawa

Yoshinori Satoh

Masaki Koenuma

A stationary game machine can responds to steering by a player to change the orientation of a dummy mover such a vehicle or the like, and also to translate the dummy mover in a direction crossing the dummy mover's path of movement at a speed corresponding to the changed orientation. The game machine can comprise a stationary vehicle used as the dummy mover and an endless belt representing a road as the path of movement. As the scenes on and in the road change in association with the movement of the endless belt, a steering wheel is rotated by the player to change the orientation of the vehicle and, at the same time, to translate the vehicle in the transverse direction. Tile translation of the vehicle is accomplished by a combination of a rotating shaft with a pressure roller contacting the rotating shaft, the cross-angle between the rotating shaft and the pressure roller being controlled to generate a thrust for translating the vehicle.

Stationary game machine

A game machine includes a number of movable assemblies, a storing portion for storing the movable assemblies and a mechanism for reciprocating the movable assemblies between a home position inside the storing portion and a turning position outside the storing portion. Each of the movable assemblies is in the form of an animal and includes a pair of members simulating respective jaws of the animal. One of the jaw members is povitally supported relative to the other for simulating opening and closing a mouth of the animal and a mechanism applies a biasing force for pivoting the first mentioned jaw member away from the other jaw member thereby to simulate opening of the mouth. The first mentioned jaw member by external application of force thereto is pivotably toward the other jaw member against the biasing force, whereby the open mouth is closed when the player hits the first mentioned jaw member by a hammer brought down by the player in a direction transversely intersecting the moving direction of the assembly. A hitting sensor detects closing of the mouth effected by the aforementioned hitting and thereupon effects registration of a score and returning of the assembly to the home position.

Game machine

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroki Nakahata