Electronic game system
US4322074A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 18, 1980 |
| Grant date | Mar 30, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 18, 2000 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61B5/162
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An electronic game having a display field of illuminatable segments arranged in a matrix or array of rows and columns, with a plurality of manually operable switches equal in number to the number of columns, the switches having different functions determined by the rules of one of a plurality of games playable on the electronic game. At least one segment is illuminated in a predetermined column and upon initiation of the game segments in that column are successively illuminated, one at a time. Depending on the function assigned to the switches manual operation of one of the switches causes one of three displayed results, the reversal of the direction of successive illumination, the varying of the speed of successive illumination, or the ceasing of the sequence of illumination displaying the then illuminated segment in a static condition.
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