Abstract: A game apparatus combines pinball, target bowling and basketball games in a single combined assembly, with a common scorekeeping and control system. The game apparatus includes a basketball rim and backboard support post that rotates between an upright, play position and an inverted, stowed position.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 11, 1994
Date of Patent:
August 22, 1995
Assignee:
M. H. Segan Limited Partnership
Inventors:
Marc H. Segan, Gary Strauss, Gerald W. Cummings
Abstract: A holiday action and musical display (10) comprising a plurality of separate display units (40, 42, 44, 46) electrically connected to a central control unit (12). Each display unit contains a figurine (147) resembling a character representation which is capable of being moved from a first position where the figurine is partially blocked from a user's view, to a second position where the figurine is visible to a user. The central control unit accesses several pluralities of stored sounds and phrases which are stored in electronic memory (305), with the sounds of each plurality having a common timbre distinct from the timbres of the other pluralities of sounds, and with each timbre being associated with a particular character representation. The accessed sounds are played on a speaker (12) and the central control unit synchronizes the movements of the figurines with the accessed sounds so that the figurines appear to be jointly singing one of a plurality of stored melodies.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 27, 1993
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1995
Assignee:
M. H. Segan Limited Partnership
Inventors:
Marc H. Segan, Michael R. Newsome, Gary Strauss