Racing game device
AssigneeSega Enterprises, Ltd.
InventorShikanosuke Ochi
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Abstract
A racing game device simulating horse racing, auto racing, etc. has guide members, a travelling base frame which can travel along a predetermined locus established by the guide members, a plurality of movable models disposed on the travelling base frame in such manner that they may be reciprocated freely and individually along the locus, and drive mechanisms for individually driving the respective movable models.
Claims6
A racing game device comprising a horizontal racing course plate, a plurality of racing elements on said racing course plate having magnets therein, a horizontally extending support table positioned beneath said racing course plate and having a central recess therein, a pair of parallel rails extending across said central recess, a traveling base frame mounted on said parallel rails for horizontal movement back and forth along said rails, a rotatable table pivotally mounted on said traveling base frame and a traveling motor fixedly mounted on said traveling base frame and having a single driving wheel driven thereby and engaged with and running along said support table for moving said traveling base frame and said rotatable table along said rails in one direction, then pivoting said rotatable table in a curvilinear movement around the one end of the parallel rails and then moving the traveling base frame and said rotatable table along said rails in the other direction, and finally pivoting said rotatable table in a curvilinear movement around the other ends of the parallel rails, whereby the rotatable table moves in a path made up of straightaways and curves joining the straightaways, a plurality of magnet means, one corresponding to each receiving element, positioned side by side on said rotatable table in a direction transverse to the direction of said path and mounted on said rotatable table for movement back and forth on said table in the direction of said path and electric motor means coupled to said magnet means for randomly driving said magnet means in said movement.
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