Namco Limited

Yoshihiro Mieda

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Yasufumi Tanabe

Yoshinori Sato

Satoshi Watanabe

Tatsuhisa Yabushita

Hiroki Nakahata

Naoki Watanabe

Kazuhiro Maeda

Hideyo Oguri

Masaki Koenuma

Shukuo Ishikawa

A controller main body,forms an input operating part having at least one disk shaped control plate,mounted so as to be rotatable on axes,and,substantially perpendicular to the surface of the controller main body and having plate holding means,and,for holding the control plates at their neutral positions by their resilient force. The control plates rotate on their rotation axes so that prescribed switches,and,are turned on/off.

Controller for game machines

Shooting game cabinet

A game machine includes a number of movable assemblies, a storing portion for storing the movable assemblies and a mechanism for reciprocating the movable assemblies between a home position inside the storing portion and a turning position outside the storing portion. Each of the movable assemblies is in the form of an animal and includes a pair of members simulating respective jaws of the animal. One of the jaw members is povitally supported relative to the other for simulating opening and closing a mouth of the animal and a mechanism applies a biasing force for pivoting the first mentioned jaw member away from the other jaw member thereby to simulate opening of the mouth. The first mentioned jaw member by external application of force thereto is pivotably toward the other jaw member against the biasing force, whereby the open mouth is closed when the player hits the first mentioned jaw member by a hammer brought down by the player in a direction transversely intersecting the moving direction of the assembly. A hitting sensor detects closing of the mouth effected by the aforementioned hitting and thereupon effects registration of a score and returning of the assembly to the home position.

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

Kawasaki, Japan

Yoshihiro Mieda