Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises

Yoshiteru Hara

Kazuhide Arai

Hiroki Ito

Hiroshi Uemura

Kenichiro Hayashi

Nobuyuki Takano

Tatsuya Kono

Shingo Yasumaru

Keiichi Fujisawa

Makoto Minematsu

Mizuki Itoh

Amusement facilities for providing predetermined images to passengers inside a vehicle for amusement on the basis of a scenario while the vehicle (ride)( ) is moving in a predetermined course, wherein the course includes bright areas and dark areas, and acceleration/deceleration of the ride ( ) is done at the boundaries of these areas. A video camera ( ) provides images outside the vehicle to the passengers in the bright areas and images of a video disk player ( ) are provided to the passengers in the dark areas. Further, sways are imparted by a motor ( ) for rolling and a motor ( ) for pitching to the ride ( ) in accordance with scenarios. These images, acceleration/deceleration and sway give the passengers an illusion as if they had moved over a longer distance than an actual distance in the dark areas.

Amusement facilities, vehicles for amusement facilities, and display for amusement facilities

A game device and method for simulating the motion of an object such as a vehicle in a realistic manner, thereby allowing the operator to sense highly realistic motions of the object in at least one dimension. In one aspect of the invention, the game device includes a vehicle simulator for an operator to ride and drive; a motion control mechanism for moving the vehicle simulator; a storage means for retaining a plurality of control data for moving the vehicle simulator in various patterns by assigning the control data respectively to a plurality of flag signals; a basic control means for setting a flag signal which corresponds to an event occurring in accordance with the development of a game by the operator; and a motion control means for reading from the storage means the control data corresponding to the flag signal which has been set, and for giving the control data to the motion control mechanism. In addition, the motion control means, upon the coexistence of the flag signals, synthesizes a plurality of control data, which correspond to the respective flag signals, and gives the synthesized control data to the motion control mechanism.

Game device and method for realistic vehicle simulation in multiple

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Yoshiteru Hara