Sports pinball amusement device
AssigneeAmerican Alpha Inc.
InventorSming Huang
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Abstract
A sports game pinball amusement device for playing a sports game. The playing field contains a plurality slots with sensors for determining the activity in a game and a multiplicity of slots with sensors representing the final. The game is played by launching a ball along an inclined playing field to determine the plays in a baseball, football, soccer game or the like, which is programmed into a microprocessor.
Claims13
A sports game pinball machine for playing a sports game, said machine having a housing with a top wall, a rear wall and a pair of side walls and of which the upper face is designed as a playing area, said housing having means for translating at least one ball throughout a plurality of locations therein, means for launching said ball for play action and means for displaying a sports action responsive to said play action, said play area being inclined downwardly so that a ball will roll downwardly because of gravity and having a multiplicity of slots about the rear wall having means for sensing said ball for determining an activity, which is part of the game that is represented by said slot, and a programmed microprocessor, which depicts a sports activity by the action of a ball on the playing field.
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