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Dance game apparatus and step-on base for dance game
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Inventors: Suzuki, Toshifumi; Okita, Katsunori; Takahashi, Kazuya; Takeda, Toru;
Assignee: Konami Co., Ltd. (Kobe, JP)
Primary Examiner: Donels; Jeffrey
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Jordan and Hamburg LLP
Rhythm sensations can be represented in time to music by using the entire body and to create powerfulness and rhythm sensations. Stepping position indication data which is set by a rhythm setting section is read from a stepping position indication data memory, and the stepping position instruction contents are scrolled and displayed on a monitor by a scroll display control section, thereby performing instructions of the stepping position and the stepping operation timing. When the fact that a player steps on a step-on base section in accordance with the display contents of the monitor is detected by a cable switch and this is input from a stepping operation monitor section, a score proportional to the timing deviation is calculated by an amount-of-deviation detection/totaling section, and next, an evaluation is performed by the rhythm setting section. Then, the next stepping position indication data is set according to the evaluation result. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION An object of the present invention, which has been achieved in view of the foregoing, is to provide a dance game apparatus which adopts a floor panel construction capable of simulating rhythm sensations in time to the music and which is powerful and creates rhythm sensations by using the entire body and by performing stepping according to the contents which are instructed in sequence, and to provide a step-on base which is suitably used for the game.
To achieve the above-mentioned object, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a dance game apparatus comprising music output means for outputting one piece of music from at least one stored piece of music; a floor panel having a step-on base section; and guidance means for performing a stepping operation instruction to the step-on base section in time with the music.
According to the present invention, stepping operation instruction contents are guided in sequence from the game apparatus by using at least one of various media, such as display, light, sound, etc.
The player is able to recognize the stepping operation instruction content which is guided.
Receiving the stepping operation information which is guided in sequence, the player steps on the step-on base section of the floor panel.
The stance of a player stepping on the step-on base section as instructed looks like that of dancing using the whole body, and it becomes powerful and compelling, depending upon the level of skill.
This shows great power for step dance practice.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a step-on base for a dance game, comprising a top panel, a support member for supporting the panel, detection means for detecting the action of a load on the panel, wherein the detection means comprises stepping sensors between the panel and the support member at mutually opposing positions of the panel.
According to the present invention, as a stepping sensor, a switch may be used which causes a moving-toward/away section to perform a moving-toward/away operation by using a pressure-sensitive element using a piezoelectric member and elastic deformation
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