INTERACTIVE VIDEO GAME AND CONTROL THEREFOR

摘要

An interactive video game, wherein player symbols representing "team members" are shown on the screen of a television receiver or cathode ray tube monitor and are caused to move through a series of preprogrammed moves. Each of the individual "team-member" symbols shown on the screen first appear in a preprogrammed formation or grouping of the various player symbols. A keyboard entry system displaying directional arrows is then used by the human participant to program a plurality of directional moves of a particular player symbol. Having completed the preprogramming of a particular player symbol, the human participant may next preprogram a similar sequence of keystroke entries for each of the remaining programmable player symbols. When both participants have programmed all of their "team members" a processor is instructed to cause the desired symbol movements to be executed on the television screen. The game further includes the complementary use of joysticks colocated with each of the direction command entry keyboards to allow shifting the location of one's entire "team" on-screen or to allow movement to speed up or slow down players. This latter feature allows the participant to superimpose manual positioning control on those resulting from the participant programmed processor machine-commands. The same directional-command keyboards also initiate the motion of certain symbols during actual game play.