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US 4,508,336 AGranted
Game device
AssigneeNintendo Co., Ltd.
InventorGunpei Yokoi
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Abstract
A game device comprising a water tank, balls having specific gravity of slightly larger than the liquid in the water tank, a pair of ball passing detecter, and a pair of control means for controlling the movement of the detecting devices. The game is played by utilizing the random changes of courses through which descending balls pass.
Claims2
A game device including a water tank which contains balls having a specific gravity of slightly larger than that of the liquid in the water tank, said game device being characterized in that it is provided with:
- a rising passage at the central part of the water tank and a pair of descending passages on both sides of the rising passage by a vertical partition wall;
- a rising water current generator below the rising passage;
- a scoring zone comprising a plurality of scoring passages for each of the pair of descending passages;
- a pair of ball passing detecting devices to determine an effective scoring passage among a plurality of scoring passages and a pair of control means for controlling the movement of the ball passing detecting device to make the effective scoring passage changeable.
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