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Electronic baseball game

  • US 4,395,760 A
  • Filed: 01/07/1981
  • Issued: 07/26/1983
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/07/1981
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An electric baseball game comprising:

  • a display having indicia in the form of first illuminable indicators simulating base runners, second illuminable indicators simulating a ball, and indicia representing a pitcher, a batter, and bases;

    input means for providing input signals to cause the pitcher to throw the ball, to cause the batter to swing at the ball, and to cause a runner to run toward a base;

    control means responsive to the input means for controlling the illuminable indicators to depict the play of the game, including means for incrementally varying the brightness of one of the first illuminable indicators in a sequential manner to simulate movement and rate of movement of a base runner toward that one first illuminable indicator, and means for incrementally varying one of the second illuminable indicators in a sequential manner to simulate movement and rate of movement of the ball away from that one second illuminable indicator.

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