Namco Limited

Tatsuhisa Yabushita

Satoshi Watanabe

Hiroshi Fujita

Yoshihiro Mieda

Yasufumi Tanabe

Kenichi Muramatsu

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Masatoshi Takai

Yoshinori Sato

Yasuhiro Wakatsuki

Hiroki Nakahata

Hideyo Oguri

Yoshinori Satoh

Game device

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 shooting game machine features that movable members are hit so as to be prevented from reaching a goal, and comprises a plurality of lanes having a starting point and a turning point at both ends, a plurality of movable members moving from the starting point to the goal via the turning point. Each movable member has a hit indicator, adapted to be operated by the player, and movable member controller for returning the hit movable member to the starting point. The distance between the starting point and the turning point is gradually shortened each time the movable member reaches the turning point so as to make the shooting game more difficult.

Shooting game machine

Growing community of inventors

Yokohama, Japan

Tatsuhisa Yabushita