Entertainment system including a video game machine for displaying images of game characters on a display monitor in response to manually entered control input commands

摘要

A video game apparatus comprises a manual control input device (2) connected to the video game machine by cable and with a control system, a central processor unit, a peripheral device controller for effecting interrupt control and controlling direct memory access data transfer and a main memory storing a program executed by the central processor unit according to input commands. Flashing lights are emitted by the control member groups (B1-B4) of the input device. Independent claims are included for a supply medium of a light emission program and for a manual control input device.