Cartridge programmable video game apparatus
AssigneeFairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation
InventorsRonald A. Smith, Nicholas F. Talesfore
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Abstract
A video game apparatus for connection to a standard television set and including an electronics-containing console having a plurality of parameter selection buttons and a chute mechanism for receiving a replaceable cartridge-containing supplementary electronic circuitry, and a pair of hand controllers for providing player control inputs to the console electronics. Improved connector apparatus is associated with the chute mechanism to enable electrical connection to be made to a cartridge contained printed circuit board with a minimum of insertion force.
Claims11
Video game apparatus comprising:
- player control means for developing play control signals;
- cartridge means including data storage means containing auxiliary video signal generating information, said cartridge means including an outer housing having a locking recess therein and a printed circuit board having electronic components mounted thereto, said outer housing enclosing said circuit board and said electronic components forming said data storage means;
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- console means including;
- a plurality of parameter selection switches for developing play parameter signals,
- chute means for receiving said cartridge means and having connector means for providing electrical connection to said data storage means, said chute means including a locking means having a detent for engaging said locking recess of said cartridge means to hold said cartridge means in a received position, and
- video signal generating means including microprocessor means for processing video signal generating information including said auxiliary information, said generating means being responsive to said play parameter signals and said play control signals and operative to generate video signals suitable for input to the antenna terminals of a standard television set to cause the television set to develop visual images corresponding to said video signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.