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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2018
Stern Pinball, Inc., Elk Grove Village, IL (US);
Lyman F. Sheats, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Michael X. Vinikour, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Stern Pinball, Inc., Elk Grove Village, IL (US);
Abstract
A display device of an amusement game is caused to present in a main screen information associated with a first one of a plurality of active game play modes of the amusement game and to present in a secondary screen information associated with a second one of the plurality of active game play modes of the amusement game. A plurality of lighted features and at least one sound generating device are controlled using instructions that are associated only with the first one of the plurality of active game play modes while input received by a plurality of game play devices, resulting from an interaction between the plurality of game play features and an object that is moving relative to a playfield of the amusement game, is used to affect play of and/or scoring of play of the amusement game using instructions that are associated with each of the plurality of active game play modes.