Konami Co., Ltd.

Konami Corporation

Koichi Nishio

Yuji Tamura

Yoshitsugu Isetani

Hirofumi Nagao

Satoshi Ueda

Shinichi Nakagawa

Makiko Otomi

Shigenobu Matsuyama

Yoshihisa Inoue

Hitoshi Konishi

Masaaki Kukino

By making a game with greater richness in its feeling of realism, the level of (player) interest is increased. A game apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with image display means which displays on the screen of monitor a 3-dimensional game field image which includes enemy characters and display means for enlarged images which enlarges the image of the small area corresponding to the part of above-indicated image at which above-indicated model gun is pointed and displays it on liquid crystal unit of scope which is built onto model gun.

Target shooting video game device, and method of displaying result of target shooting video game

A simulated gun for use with a disk-shaped or substantially disk-shaped flying member made of a metal as a bullet for discharging it forward, the simulated gun comprising: a gunbarrel having the hollow whose cross section along a direction normal to a flying direction of the flying member is vertically long and has vertical and horizontal dimensions set substantially equal to the diameter and the thickness of the flying member, respectively, and a flying member hitting position being set at the inner back position of the gunbarrel; a hammer provided at the inner back position of the gunbarrel, reciprocatingly movable between an advanced position where it hits the rear part of the flying member set at the flying member hitting position and a retracted position which is located in a rearward from the advance position, and adapted to hit the flying member set at the flying member hitting position, and a trigger for reciprocatingly moving the hammer.

Simulated gun

A shooting game machine for discharging a disk-shaped or substantially disk-shaped member made of a metal to hit a target, the shooting game machine comprising: a target provided in a casing, a simulated gun having a muzzle arranged inside the casing and adapted to discharge the flying member in such a manner that the thickness direction of the flying member substantially extends along a horizontal direction, and a detecting unit for detecting that the flying member discharged from the simulated gun has hit the target.

Shooting game machine

Display apparatus for use in a simulation game system

Game machine

Steering wheel

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Kobe, Japan

Koichi Nishio