Namco Limited

Togo Japan, Inc.

N & T Co., Ltd.

Akatsukikougei Kabushiki Kaisha

Mamoru Ikezawa

Tatsuya Yamazaki

Koichi Tashiro

Takashi Sano

Tetsuo Tsuchiya

Hajime Nakatani

Kosei Matsuura

Keiji Mochino

A riding type game machine system includes a vehicle movable along a path with a player riding therein and a plurality of game stages arranged along the path. At least one of the game stages is adapted to perform a contact type game having an input operation performed by the player touching a target. The contact type game is, for example, a target hitting game, which is a familiar game for the player compared with a non-contact type game such as a shooting game using infrared ray.

Game machine system

The present invention provides an amusement system having a play zone consisting, in combination, of a plurality of game stages and including a travel path extending through the respective game stages; at least one carrier for receiving a player or players thereon and for moving along the travel path while causing the player or players to play a game at each of the game stages; a score processor for processing the score of the player or the scores of the players; and a representing device for representing the game in each of the game stages, the representing device providing a multi-story game by changing the game presentation mode at a game stage through which the carrier is moving or will move, depending on the total carrier score won by the player or players on the carrier.

Amusement system

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.

Multi-player type video game playing system

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Tokyo, Japan

Mamoru Ikezawa