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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1979
George J Klose, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Mattel, Inc., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Abstract
A hand held electronic game for baseball or the like having a playing field with illuminatable segments thereon at positions generally corresponding to potential player positions. One group of segments defines the path of a player object such as a ball which when 'impacted' in response to a correctly timed manual input illuminates one of another group of segments. The 'player' is advanced in response to another manual input a distance determined by the segment so illuminated. Game control and game status is under control of a processor using probabilities to determine game events. In the embodiment illustrated, the game is in the form of a baseball game with the segment depicted on a baseball diamond.