JPH0138513B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a video game device. Various game devices have been put into practical use in which two players play against each other while looking at the content displayed on the screen of a video display, but the content of the competition is simple and does not require any thinking. Moreover, there was a problem in that if the players were not available, the original game of the device could not be enjoyed. The present invention is a game device that allows two people to enjoy a competitive game that involves thinking, that is, a game device in which a player can manually control their position on a plane by looking at the content displayed on the screen of a video display. Moreover, by controlling a means such as a digitizer that generates a position signal according to the specified position, the position signal from the position signal generating means is generated and the display content on the screen is changed to the next display content. The aim is to provide a video game device that allows players to play games.

Next, one embodiment of the device of the present invention will be described using a Go game as an example. As shown in Fig. 1, the basic configuration of this device is as shown in Fig. 1. On each of a plurality of tracks, a unit video signal for each step according to the progress of the game, a plurality of position signals indicating each position, and a plurality of position signals are provided on each track. A magnetic recording/reproducing machine 1 is provided with an access means capable of loading a recording medium in which a code signal consisting of a corresponding track position command signal is recorded, and capable of individually accessing each track with a head; A video display device 2 displays the unit video signal from the playback device, and the player can manually control the position on the plane by looking at the display contents of this display device, and the position signal is displayed according to the specified position. A controller 4 is provided for comparing the position signal from the position signal generating means with the code signal and deriving an access command signal for driving the access means based on the matching signal. On each separate track of the recording medium, unit video signals to be displayed on the screen of the video display device 2, as shown in FIG. 2, A, B, and C, are recorded together with the code signal. The code signal includes a plurality of position signals each indicating a plurality of positions that can be specified, and a track position command signal for specifying the next track position in response to the position signals.

When the apparatus of the present invention is set in operation, the contents of the first track shown in FIG. 2A are displayed on the screen. When the player sees this display and places a cursor 5 corresponding to a Go stone (black stone) on a digitizer shaped like a Go board, the position signal is input to the controller 4. In the controller 4, a comparing circuit compares the position signal from the position signal generating means 3 with one of the plurality of position signals among the code signals detected by the code detection circuit of the magnetic recording/reproducing device 1. do. In response to the output, the access command circuit outputs a signal for commanding the next track position to be reproduced for the position based on the code signal. The head access circuit is driven in response to this command signal to move the head to a predetermined track position. As a result, the video display shows an image of a black stone being placed at the position specified by the athlete via the position signal generating means 3, and a white stone being placed therewith [for example, the image shown in FIG. ] will be played. Note that since a unit video signal is recorded on the recording medium in response to one position designation, it is not necessary to distinguish between white and black.
In this way, the Go game can be played not only for correct procedures but also for failed procedures.

Further, by providing the position signal generating means with not only a position signal generating function but also a function of determining the contents of the cursor, it is also possible to play a Tsume Shogi game.

As mentioned above, the device of the present invention is unique in that, unlike general video game devices in which two players compete against each other while looking at a screen, the device allows one player to compete alone against a pre-recorded program. , and also has these features.
-The technology described in Publication No. 22532 is not intended to be a simple game of simply shooting a target, but is a game that involves thinking, in which the user specifies the position of a position signal generating means such as a digitizer on a plane while rotating the mind. It's something you can enjoy. It goes without saying that by exchanging the recording medium, various games can be played.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the basic configuration of the apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the apparatus. 1...Magnetic recording/reproducing machine, 2...Video display device, 3
...Position signal generating means, 4...Controller.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A position signal generating means for allowing a player to manually control a position on a plane and generating a position signal according to a specified position, and a position signal generating means for generating a position signal according to a specified position, and a position signal for game progress on each of a plurality of tracks. A randomly accessible recording medium that records a unit video signal for each procedure, a plurality of position signals indicating each position, and a code signal consisting of a track position command signal corresponding to each of the position signals, and a unit video of the recording medium. a device for reproducing the signal and the code signal; a video display device for displaying the reproduced video signal; and a position signal in the reproduced code signal that matches the position signal specified by the position signal generating means. Select a track position command signal corresponding to the position, and use this track position command signal to
A video game device comprising a controller that controls playback by specifying the track position where the next unit video signal is recorded.