Electronic stock market terminal game
AssigneeMattel, Inc.
InventorsJan B. Chodak, Luan G. Tran
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Abstract
An electronic stock market game having a plurality of display and input positions at which players may trade in stock listed by the game. Each display shows a player, the price at which a stock is selling and gives general and specific information affecting the price of the stocks. A player selects a stock to trade in and keys in his order. A microprocessor executes the order, if possible, and controls the display to indicate the status of all stocks and the players account. The object of the game is to accumulate assets having over a predetermined value.
Claims29
A market game comprising at least two player positions each including display means for simulating a stock market terminal, control circuit means adapted to cause the display to indicate stocks available in the game and the prices thereof, and input means associated with each player position for signaling the control circuit means to purchase and sell shares of stock available, and in which the control circuit means includes means for automatically detecting whether a player position is occupied, including means for determining whether the input means associated with that player position has been actuated, and means for automatically simulating the play of a human player at any position at which the associated input means has not been actuated.
A market game comprising at least two player positions each including public display means for indicating public information at all player positions, and each including private display means viewable only at its particular player position for selectively indicating information which is confidential to that particular player;
- input means associated with each player position for designating a market transaction;
- transaction control means responsive to the input means for generating transaction information based on the designated transaction;
- stock control means for providing stock information including stocks available in the game and the prices thereof;
- and display control means responsive to the transaction control means and the stock control means for determining the appropriate display means for indicating the transaction information and the stock information as a function of the source of the information, and for causing the appropriate display means to indicate the transaction information and the stock information.
A market game as in claim 6 in which the display control means further causes the public display means to indicate the share purchase transaction if that player position has accumulated a selected number of the shares.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.