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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| 20110237326 | DATA AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND DATA AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM A storage means which can be accessed by an authentication apparatus stores content data, a first digest table including primary digest values corresponding to a plurality of data portions constituting the content data, a second digest table including secondary digest v... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110190052 | GAME SYSTEM, CONTROLLER DEVICE AND GAME METHOD An example game system includes a home-console type game device and a terminal device. The terminal device includes a touch panel and an inertia sensor, and wirelessly transmits to the game device operation data including touch panel data and inertia sensor data. The ga... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110124418 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GAMING DONGLES Some embodiments are associated with gaming dongles. Some gaming dongles may store value that is utilized to play a video game and/or to participate in a video game tournament. Some gaming dongles may determine and/or store gaming signatures, biometric information, and/... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110118015 | GAME APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM AND GAME CONTROLLING METHOD A game apparatus includes a CPU, and images a face image of a player with an inward camera provided between a first LCD and a second LCD according to an instruction from the CPU. The CPU specifies a position of the eyes of the player from the face image, and decides a p... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110105230 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN MUSICAL SOUND GENERATION PROGRAM, AND MUSICAL SOUND GENERATION APPARATUS A user can move the position of a pan flute in a horizontal direction on a screen by sliding a touch position in the horizontal direction on the screen while touching a touch panel with a stick. Moreover, when the user blows on a microphone hole, a musical sound of a pi... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110045904 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM, GAME APPARATUS AND GAME CONTROLLING METHOD A game apparatus includes a camera, and with this camera, images in a plurality of poses decided in advance are imaged. From the imaged image in the plurality of poses, an image of a game character in each pose is created. In a battle game and a match-up game, the image... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110034242 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PARENTAL CONTROL A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a device that can receive a parental control signal that designates undesired content, determine when a restricted user is interacting with a gaming software application, and modify... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100306717 | STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING GAME PROGRAM STORED THEREIN AND GAME APPARATUS A game apparatus detects a path inputted by a player, and moves an object placed in a virtual game space along the path. Moreover, the game apparatus controls the object, which is moving along the path, to perform a predetermined action, and determines a return position... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100292012 | Portable storage device for a game machine to mount games The present invention relates to a portable storage device for a game machine to mount games, which includes a portable storage device and a main game machine. The main game machine and the portable storage device are provided with mutual coupling connector interfaces. ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100292005 | GAME APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING A GAME PROGRAM STORED THEREON In a game apparatus, a trajectory WP on which a waist W of a player character moves and an elliptic trajectory ArP on which an ankle Par of the player character moves are set. When the player character moves in a game space, the waist moves on the trajectory WP and the ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100262776 | DATA DRIVE A data drive for interfacing with an electronic device through a memory card reader is described. The memory card reader accepts a memory card, which stores data having a first format. The data drive includes a storage device for storing data having a second format, a c... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100257019 | ASSOCIATING USER-DEFINED DESCRIPTIONS WITH OBJECTS Interactively associating user-defined descriptions with objects. At least two users create descriptions based on provided objects. The users analyze the descriptions to determine whether the users were provided with the same or different objects. If all the users are c... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100227674 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR JUNKET BUSINESS The junket loyalty system (JLS) and method for operation disclosed herein are adapted for effectively operating and managing a junket business.... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100160044 | GAME PROGRAM AND GAME APPARATUS A game apparatus executes game processing on the basis of microphone input information input through a microphone. The CPU of the game apparatus executes an imaging step for imaging a user with a camera, a detection determining step for determining whether or not a user... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100130287 | MANAGING SECURITY FOR NETWORK-BASED GAMING This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for managing security for network-based gaming. A method and system download and install an image of wagering game content on a wagering game machine, wherein the wagering game machine is capable of receiv... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100105473 | Video role play The present invention relates to an entertainment system, in particular to a role-play video game for one, or two or more players where game software accesses a machine readable media to obtain a set of preselected media clips. These media clips may be scenes from a mov... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100099500 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GAMING DONGLES Some embodiments are associated with gaming dongles. Some gaming dongles may store value that is utilized to play a video game and/or to participate in a video game tournament. Some gaming dongles may determine and/or store gaming signatures, biometric information, and/... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100075762 | Segmented Memory Control System for Gaming Devices A segmented memory control system is disclosed. Specifically, multiple memory locations, including removable memory locations, are part of a gaming device. The memory locations are prioritized and data, including new data on removable memory units, with a higher priorit... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100056273 | EXTENSIBLE SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZED AVATARS AND ACCESSORIES An item can be added to an avatar associated with a user of a video game console. The item is represented by a data entry that is written to a manifest, which contains data fields storing a type and a name of the item. Items can be applied to or “worn” by an avatar ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100041454 | Portable dance game system A dance game system includes a host and a motion sensor. The host includes a prompting unit using indicators to prompt dance step directions. The motion sensor includes an acceleration sensor sensing user's dance step directions and communicating with the host wirelessl... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100022304 | VIDEO GAME DEVICE AND VIDEO GAME PROGRAM A moving character and a background image are displayed on a display screen with a touch panel thereon. When the player operates the touch panel to draw a line in an intended path extending between a start point and an end point along which the player wishes to guide th... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090305792 | Game console and memory card An example portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a first display screen, and a cover body incorporating a second display screen. The main body is hingedly connected to the cover body along adjacent forward and rearward edges, respectively, s... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090247294 | HAND-HELD VIDEO GAMING DEVICE WITH INTEGRAL PRINTER A hand-held video gaming device comprises a games console comprising a disc reader module configured to load a game stored on a disc; a printer module configured to print game information on print media, the printer module being hingedly mounted above the games console,... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090036213 | Game system and game information storage medium used for same A game system includes a housing to be held by a player. The housing incorporates an XY-axis acceleration sensor to detect an acceleration in an X-axis and Y-axis direction and a Z-axis contact switch to detect an acceleration in an Z-axis direction. These sensor and sw... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080293490 | System For Multifuctional Remote Control A system for multifunctional remote control is disclosed. The system comprises a remote control (100) for connecting mechanically and electrically with a cartridge (200), reading data stored in the cartridge through the first connection unit (110), ... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080242406 | DIGITAL GAME DISTRIBUTION FOR GAMING DEVICES Systems and methods of providing digital game content to a portable game system may include a digital content source and an authentication system in communication with the portable game system. The portable game system may receive a digital game content from the digital... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080214271 | Electronic game card An electronic game card and a method are disclosed for playing an instant lottery game which may provide a novel game experience as well as a game card which is cost effective to produce. In at least one embodiment, the game card includes a control chip, a start button,... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080182670 | Game and video cartridge for a host device A memory cartridge having an entertainment application is inserted in an interface connected to a host device. The host device is automatically instructed or requested to play the entertainment application residing on the memory cartridge. The instruction may be generat... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080182669 | Game and video cartridge for portable electronic device A removable game or video cartridge programmed specifically to play on a device having a display such, for example, as a mobile phone, digital camera, PDA, or handheld game machine includes a small bootstrap or start-up program that launches, without any interaction on ... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080125220 | System and method of a game that shares a specific property of a character with team members A video game on a computer readable media that has a plurality of team characters under a single control is disclosed. Action Points (an activity parameter) are assigned to each team character. The Action Points can be combined together and can be used by one or more of... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080125202 | GAME DEVICE, GAME IMPLEMENTATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM To improve game performance, in a three-dimensional video game in which a viewpoint position changes in accordance with a movement of a player character, considering an aspect of how to show a player an activation of a prescribed effect at a second object, forming a pai... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080119287 | A Portable Data Processing System A portable data processing system comprises a cartridge and a main apparatus, wherein the cartridge with a processing unit computes a plurality of control signals generated from the main apparatus and outputs a plurality of output signals to the main apparatus according... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080119269 | Game system and storage medium storing game program A housing of a game controller is capable of being held with one hand of a player. A direction instruction section is provided in the housing for performing a direction instruction input. Movement detection means is means for detecting movement of the housing. Movement ... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080039201 | Game program and game apparatus When there is an instruction for rotation during a game in a first field, a CPU core of a game apparatus obtains central coordinates in a second field after the rotation and coordinates (central coordinates) of a player object and BG object in steps S53 and S5... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070099706 | Localization and customization of game related content A retail game kiosk system is provided game applications via a game media (DVD) comprising several different game configurations. Each game configuration is compatible with an intended recipient of the kiosk system. A game configuration is selected via a selector switch... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20060287110 | Method and apparatus for providing games and content In an embodiment of the invention, a dongle is configured for communication with an electronic device. The dongle includes a connector, a controller, a first memory and a second memory. The connector is for interfacing with the electronic device. The controller is for c... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060281557 | Collectable game cartridges and methods of using collectable game cartridges A game cartridge is described that retains a player's current holdings related to game play in a write-once memory. The cartridge thus becomes closely identified with the previous play of a player to simulate non-electronic collectable card or other status games. Furthe... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20050164795 | Method and apparatus for managing data in a gaming system A gaming system includes a hard disk drive for storing applications and other data. The hard disk drive has multiple regions for storing different types of data. Each application executed on the gaming system has an associated storage area on the hard disk drive. A cons... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050148394 | Game data control program, game data overwriting program and game data overwriting device Before game data is arranged, a storage area for the game data in an internal memory is determined so that each game parameter is stored in a different storage area each time the game data is arranged. Then, arrangement information that directly or indirectly indicates ... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050026701 | Method and apparatus to add functionality to gaming devices A smart cartridge configured to add downloading and streaming capabilities to a gaming unit. ... | 02/03/2005 |
