Game apparatus with positional strikers

Abstract

A competitive action game apparatus including a game board having a playing surface thereon. The playing surface has a high section intermediate each of a pair of opposed player ends and extends downwardly toward each of such player ends. A goal area is located at each of the opposed player ends. A rebound frame surrounds the playing surface except at the goal areas to retain a playing piece in the form of a ball on the surface. The playing surface is generally solid and continuous and uninterrupted between each of the goal areas. Manually shiftable support members are located in front of each of the goal areas and are capable of being shifted transversely in a direction substantially perpendicular to a line extending between the opposed playing ends. A pair of actuable striker elements, which may adopt the form of flippers, are disposed on each of the support members, and are manually actuated by means on the support members. Each player can shift his support member from side to side and can also actuate his flippers to strike the playing piece so as to protect his own goal while attempting to propel the ball into his opponent's goal. The double incline of the playing surface insures that the ball will not stall at an intermediate portion of the playing surface, but will always move down one or the other of the inclines toward a player area where it can be engaged by a striker element. This arrangement permits the use of striker elements which have limited movement such that portions of the playing surface are not within the reach of any of the striker elements.