Simulated shooting game with continuous transmission of target identification signals

An amusement shooting game for play by a plurality of players wherein the players shoot at each other while avoiding being shot at on a battlefield including:

• vest means carried by each player for generating a continuous coded signal uniquely identifying each player;
• helmet means worn by each player for transmitting said continuous unique coded signal in a wide angle beam directed outward from each player;
• gun means carried by each player and having a trigger, said gun means for receiving said unique coded signals when said trigger is actuated, said gun means having a reception angle substantially smaller than said wide angle beam;
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• data processing means for generating a score for each player indicative of the number of players that each player has shot.

An amusement shooting game for play by a plurality of players, wherein the players shoot at each other while avoiding being shot at on a battlefield, each of the players having personal equipment including a helmet, vest and gun, the game comprising:

• means housed in the player's vest for generating a continuous code uniquely identifying the player;
• means connected to the player's vest for receiving said continuous code and mounted to the player's helmet for transmitting said continuous code in the form of a wide angle infrared beam directed outward from the player;
• means including a trigger mounted in the player's gun for receiving infrared beams transmitted by the other players, said means for receiving having a reception angle substantially smaller than said wide angle beam;
• means mounted to the player's gun and connected to the player's vest for detecting a received, coded infrared beam upon actuation of the gun;
• transmitting means housed in the player's vest for transmitting information related to received, coded infrared beams to a data processing unit;
• said data processing unit including means for receiving said transmitted data from said transmitting means for calculating a score for each player based upon the number of players he has shot and the number of times he has been shot by other players;
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• said data processing unit further including means for transmitting data to each player to provide an indication whether the player has been shot or has shot another player.

An amusement shooting game for play by a plurality of players, wherein the players shoot at each other while avoiding being shot at on a battlefield:

• means carried by each player for continuously generating a unique, repeated, coded signal to identify the player,
• means carried by each player and connected to receive said coded signal for generating an infrared beam modulated by said coded signal thereby producing a coded infrared beam, said beam transmitted outward as a wide angle beam from the player,
• means carried by each player for receiving the infrared beams generated by the other players, said means for receiving having a reception angle substantially smaller than said wide angle beam,
• a transmitter carried by each player and connected to said means for receiving the infrared beams for transmitting a hit signal when said means for receiving the infrared beams receives one of said infrared beams generated by another of said players, said hit signal coded to identify the unique coded infrared beam received by the means for receiving the infrared beams,
• a receiver for receiving said hit signals from said transmitters carried by said players,
• processing means connected to said receiver for maintaining a score for each of said players and for generating a hit received signal in response to each said hit signal received at said processing means,
• a transmitter connected to said processing means for transmitting said hit received signals,
• receiving means carried by each player for receiving said hit received signals from said transmitter wherein said hit received signal is received by the one player whose coded infrared beam has been intercepted by another player's means for receiving the infrared beams, and
• means carried by each player for generating a hit indication signal to the player upon receipt of said hit received signal.