Namco Limited

Kosei Matsuura

Koichi Tashiro

Takashi Sano

Hajime Nakatani

Mamoru Ikezawa

A multi-player type video game playing system permits a plurality of players to play and enjoy a game within the common game space. The video game has a cylinder-shaped screen; a plurality of projectors arranged and allocated to project a game scene continuously extending around the entire circumference of the cylindrical screen; a plurality of players' operating sections arranged radially toward the screen; and an image processor for computing a game scene to be projected onto the screen in accordance with input signals from the players' operating sections and a predetermined game program. The image signals representative of the computed game scene are supplied to the projectors to form the game scene continuously extending around the entire circumference of the screen, whereby any one of the players can face and observe a transversely widened game scene covering the entire field of view for that player such that all the players can enjoy the game with increased reality.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Kosei Matsuura