Konami Co., Ltd.

Toshifumi Suzuki

Toru Takeda

Makiko Otomi

Hiroyuki Muraki

Kazuya Takahashi

Katsunori Okita

Takahiro Hiraoka

Yuusuke Fujimoto

Game machine

Rhythm sensations can be represented in time to music by using the entire body and to create powerfulness and rhythm sensations. Stepping position indication data which is set by a rhythm setting section is read from a stepping position indication data memory, and the stepping position instruction contents are scrolled and displayed on a monitor by a scroll display control section, thereby performing instructions of the stepping position and the stepping operation timing. When the fact that a player steps on a step-on base section in accordance with the display contents of the monitor is detected by a cable switch and this is input from a stepping operation monitor section, a score proportional to the timing deviation is calculated by an amount-of-deviation detection/totaling section, and next, an evaluation is performed by the rhythm setting section. Then, the next stepping position indication data is set according to the evaluation result.

Dance game apparatus and step-on base for dance game

A control lever device suited for use as a hand brake or the like in a driving game machine and capable of achieving a realistic game machine. In the control lever device, a lever is mounted at one end of a shaft so that it turns together with the shaft, and a gear support plate is mounted at the center of the shaft. The gear support plate is provided with a transmitting gear which meshes with a transmitted gear mounted on a rotary shaft of a variable resistor. The turning motion of the lever is transmitted to the rotary shaft of the variable resistor, and the resistance of the variable resistor is changed in accordance with the amount of turn of the lever. Mounted at the other end of the shaft is an urging force applying member having an urging force generating characteristic wherein the generation rate of the urging force relative to the amount of turn of the lever increases with increase in amount of turn of the lever. The gear support plate is provided with another urging force applying member formed of a tension coil spring.

Control lever device

A rotary manual controller for use with a game machine has a steering wheel manually operable by the game player to rotate a shaft in one direction or the other between a neutral position and a manipulated position, for entering information about a game player's rotary control action to develop a game played on the game machine. The rotary manual controller includes a biasing mechanism for biasing the shaft to return to the neutral position, and a restricting mechanism for restricting angular movement of the shaft. The biasing mechanism has a cam of a partly elliptical, elongate rectangular shape concentrically mounted on the shaft, a pair of abutment members extending transversely across the shaft and held in slidable contact with respective cam surfaces of the cam, and a helical spring for biasing the abutment members into slidable contact with respective cam surfaces of the cam.

Rotary manual controller for use with game machine

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Amagasaki, Japan

Toshifumi Suzuki