JPH0724143A - Grapple game device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a grapple game device which enables to compete for a reflex nerve by providing an acceleration sensor in gloves which a player puts on, emitting infrared rays, based on an output of its sensor, and measuring the time until the infrared rays are photodetected after an attack is started. CONSTITUTION:In the center of a display board 3 provided erectly on a housing 2, a liquid crystal monitor 4 is provided, an enemy character 5 in a figure of a boxer is displayed thereon, and also, an outline only of an ally character 6 for supposing a player is displayed. On the other hand, an acceleration sensor is provided in gloves which the player puts on, and when the player puts on the gloves and gives a punch, a signal is outputted from the acceleration sensor, an infrared ray emitting part contained in the gloves is operated, and the emitted infrared rays are photodetected by an infrared ray photodetecting part 10 provided in front of the display board 3. Subsequently, when an attack is executed by the enemy character 5, the time until the player thrusts the glove in accordance with this attack is measured, and a speed of an attack of the player is decided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a fighting game device in which a player wears gloves to play.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There are few game devices in which a player actually wears a glove and, as a conventional example, there is a game device configured to transmit air pressure in the glove to a doll's drive system via a hose. By fitting the hand and moving the arm, the change in the air pressure inside the glove is transmitted to the drive system of the doll, so that the doll can advance and retract the arm and push out the punch.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved] However, the hose is connected to the glove, which is an obstacle, and it does not compete for reflexes etc. simply by punching out, but it lacks one more interesting point. is there.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points.
The goal is to use a fighting game device that can compete for reflexes without being connected to a glove and being required to react accurately and agilely to the movement of the opponent displayed on the monitor screen. There is a point to offer.

[0005]

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides an image display means for displaying an enemy character or the like on a monitor screen, and an image forming means for forming an image of the image display means. Infrared light receiving means provided in the vicinity of the screen of the image display means, gloves worn by a player, an acceleration sensor provided on the gloves, and infrared light emission that emits light based on the acceleration sensor provided on the gloves Means and a fighting game device provided with a judging means for judging the speed of the player's attack by measuring the time from the time when the enemy character on the monitor screen is attacked until the reception of the light receiving signal of the infrared light receiving means And

The player wears a glove on his / her hand, stands in front of the monitor screen, and attacks the enemy character on the screen by letting out the glove as quickly as possible to attack and emit infrared rays. It is possible to judge the speed of the player's attack based on the time from the attack to the input of the infrared light reception signal, and it is possible to compete for the speed of the reflexes.

Since it is not necessary to connect a hose such as a hose to the glove, it is possible to freely extend the arm.

[0008] In addition, since the enemy character's attack can be displayed by the action of the character on the monitor screen, a variety of varied attacks are possible and intriguing. Furthermore, the character can be easily changed and various game developments can be performed. You can change it and keep your interest.

[0009]

EXAMPLES An example of the present invention shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 will be described below. FIG. 1 is an external view of a fighting game device main body 1 of the present embodiment, and FIG. 2 is an external view of a glove 20 that the player fits in his hand.

In the fighting game apparatus main body 1 shown in FIG. 1, a display board 3 is erected on a housing 2 which is a base, and a liquid crystal monitor 4 is arranged in the center of the display board 3 with the monitor screen facing forward. It is set up. On the LCD monitor 4, the enemy character 5 in the shape of a boxer is displayed facing the front,
Only the outline of the ally character 6 that virtually represents the player is displayed, and the score display 7 and the level display 8 of the player are displayed.

Below the liquid crystal monitor 4, there is an infrared receiver 10
Are arranged horizontally. Power button on the top of the case 2
11 and a select button 12 are provided side by side, and a speaker 13 is built in and a control board is provided inside.

On the other hand, the left and right gloves 20 shown in FIG. 2 have a grip bar 21 inside, and the player grips the grip bar 21 when the glove 20 is fitted. The globe 20 has an infrared light emitting portion 22 at the tip portion thereof, and an LED 23 is attached to the upper portion thereof.

An acceleration sensor 24 is provided inside the grip bar 21.
The power supply 25 is built in. When the player fits the glove 20 and sends out a punch, the acceleration sensor 24 operates to cause the infrared ray emitting section 22 and the LED 23 to emit light.

Although the infrared ray cannot be seen by the player, it can be seen by seeing the light emission of the LED 23 that the infrared light emitting portion 22 is emitting light. The left and right gloves 20
The wavelengths of the infrared rays emitted from the infrared ray emitting section 22 provided in are different.

Next, a block diagram of a control system of the fighting game apparatus body 1 will be described with reference to FIG. The progress of the game is controlled by the microcomputer 30, and signals from the power button 11, the select button 12, and the infrared light receiving section 10 are input to the microcomputer 30.

The microcomputer 30 controls the progress of the game based on these input signals, outputs an image instruction signal to the image control circuit 31, and outputs a voice instruction signal to the sound drive circuit 32.

The image control circuit 31 is a microcomputer 30.
An image signal is formed from the signal from the character image memory 33 and the character signal from the character image memory 33, and the image signal is output to the color expansion circuit 34. The color expansion circuit 34 expands the color of the image information into more various colors and displays the image on the liquid crystal monitor 4. To form. The sound drive circuit 32 receives the voice instruction signal and drives the speaker 13 to generate voice.

The operation procedure of the above control system will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, when the power button 11 is turned on, the process proceeds from step 1 to step 5, but when the power button 11 is not turned on, the process proceeds to step 2 to clear the score / level, and the down timer T is set to 1 in step 3. The game is set to a predetermined time that can be played (step 3), and the flag F is set to "0" (step 4).

When the power button 11 is pressed and the process proceeds to step 5, it is determined whether the timer T has become 0. If not, the process proceeds to step 6 to determine the state of the flag F.
Initially, the flag F is "0", so proceed to Step 7,
A character is selected by the select button 12.

Each time the select button 12 is pressed, the opponent's enemy character 5 appears in sequence on the monitor screen so that the player can freely select it. When the selected enemy character 5 appears on the screen, fit it into your hand. When either the right or left globe 20 is projected, infrared rays are emitted and are received by the infrared receiving section 10, and it is judged in step 8 whether or not the infrared rays are input.

When infrared rays are input here, the enemy character 5 is confirmed and the process proceeds to step 9 to drive the speaker 13 to play the start melody and set the flag F to "1" (step 10). Therefore, after that, the process jumps from step 6 to step 11, and only the first time the enemy character 5 is selected and the start melody is played.

Then, in the next step 11, any one of the left and right punches of the enemy character 5 is arbitrarily selected, and the enemy character 5 gives out a punch by the selected arm to attack (step 12). Then, in the next step 13, it is determined whether or not the infrared light is received by the infrared light receiving unit 10 and the light reception signal is input.If there is no input, this routine is exited. Determine the wavelength to see if it is the correct wavelength (step 1
Four).

For example, when the enemy character 5 sticks out his right arm and makes a right punch, if the player who wears the glove 20 in his left and right hands makes a left punch on the opposite side,
The acceleration sensor 24 of the left glove 20 operates to cause the infrared light emitting portion 22 to emit light, the infrared light receiving portion 10 receives the infrared light and sends the received light signal to the microcomputer 30, and from the wavelength, it is determined that it is a left punch and is correct. To be done.

If the player makes a right punch, it is judged from the infrared wavelength that it is incorrect, and the step 14
You will exit this routine from. That is, the player plays by responding so as to produce a punch on the side opposite to the punch delivered by the enemy character 5.

If it is determined that the infrared wavelength is correct, the process proceeds from step 14 to step 15 to measure the delay time t from the punch of the enemy character 5 to the infrared input.

In the next step 16, it is judged whether or not this delay time is within 0.5 seconds. If it is within 0.5 seconds, jump to step 19 and add 2 points to the score. Step
At 17 it is judged whether it is within 1.0 second, and if it is within 1.0 second, proceed to step 18 and add 1 point to the score. If it exceeds 1.0 second, no point is added and this routine is exited. .

When the points are added within the delay time t of 0.5 seconds or 1.0 seconds, the next step 20 is to generate an onomatopoeic sound such as "bash", and then the enemy The character 5 shakes his body (step 2
1) Further, a voice "war" is generated (step 21).

That is, it represents that the enemy character 5 is damaged by the punch of the player. Then, the score displayed in steps 18 and 19 is displayed as a score 7
(Step 23).

Next, it is determined in step 24 whether or not the enemy character 5 has lost. If the enemy character 5 is damaged to some extent, it will be judged as lost,
If it is determined that the player is lost, the process proceeds to step 25, where the enemy character 5 is down and replaced with a new enemy character 5. This routine is terminated while the enemy character 5 is not determined to be lost.

When the game progresses by repeating the above steps and the timer T becomes 0, the level is judged by jumping from step 5 to step 26. The score is evaluated in five stages, the level is displayed on the level display 8 on the monitor screen, and the game ends.

Since the game is played in this manner, the score increases when the player punches correctly and quickly in response to the punch of the enemy character 5 on the monitor screen. You can compete and get a high level of judgment.

Since the player has to look at the movements of the enemy character 5 and react correctly and agilely, rather than merely punching out, the player can compete for reflexes and is intriguing.

Further, since the enemy character 5 is displayed on the screen of the liquid crystal monitor 4 in a free movement, the player plays while watching the enemy character 5 attacking with a variety of attacks, so that there is a sense of realism. If the player becomes strong, he can defeat many enemies and play against various enemies, which makes him uninteresting.

The enemy character appearing later can be set to a strong character having a higher level in sequence, and by setting in this way, a wide range of players from beginners to experts can be interested. It should be noted that the glove 20 is easy to handle because no obstacle is attached to it.

In the above embodiment, the boxer appears on the monitor screen, but the game is not limited to boxing but can be a game simulating a fight such as karate. In addition, the software of various fighting games is recorded in the cartridge type ROM etc.
It is also possible to adopt a method of replacing the OM and using it. The monitor screen is not limited to the liquid crystal monitor 4, and it is naturally possible to use a cathode ray tube type monitor TV.

[0036]

As described above, according to the present invention, the player can respond to the attack of the enemy character displayed on the monitor screen and compete for the speed of the reaction, so that an exciting game can be enjoyed.

Since the attack of the enemy character is displayed on the monitor screen, a variety of attacks can be made with realistic movements to give the player a sense of realism, and the opponent will continue to change and the interest will continue. In addition, the glove worn by the player is easy to handle as there are no obstacles such as hoses.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a fighting game device main body according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view of a glove according to the same example.

FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of a control system of the same example.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of the same example.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Fighting game device main body, 2 ... Housing, 3 ... Display board,
4 ... Liquid crystal monitor, 5 ... enemy character, 6 ... ally character, 7 ... score display, 8 ... level display, 10 ... infrared receiver, 11 ... power button, 12 ... select button, 13 ... speaker, 20 ... glove, 21 ... grip bar, 22 ... infrared light emitting part,
23 ... LED, 24 ... acceleration sensor, 25 ... power supply, 30 ... microcomputer, 31 ... image control circuit, 32 ... sound drive circuit, 33 ... character image memory, 34 ... color expansion circuit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image display means for displaying an enemy character or the like on a monitor screen, an image forming means for forming an image of the image display means, an infrared light receiving means provided near the screen of the image display means, and a player. A glove that fits in the hand, an acceleration sensor provided on the glove, an infrared light emitting unit that emits light based on the acceleration sensor provided on the glove, and from when the enemy character on the monitor screen is attacked A fighting game device, comprising: a determination means for determining the speed of the player's attack by measuring the time until the reception signal of the infrared light receiving means is input.