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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7147225 | Board game A genuine fully bordered portable polymer enclosure game board, provided with non secured, multiple polymer human imaged soccer figurines, to be disposed in a random pattern determined by the player and allowing for directed movement, inserted with a micro magnetic ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7004465 | Game table A game table for playing a game relating to an ice-related sport. The game table includes a tabletop substantially covered with a sheet of ice. Symbols printed on the tabletop are visible through the ice and relate to the sport of ice hockey, curling, skating, etc. | 02/28/2006 |
| 6695308 | Baseball game apparatus The present invention provides a simulated baseball game apparatus. The game is played generally in accordance with the rules of actual baseball. The apparatus resembles a baseball field and is designed to be played by at least two players. An offensive p... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6561511 | Magnetic table game A table game includes a generally planar panel having a top surface including a playing field. First and second playing pieces are slidably positioned on the playing field. First and second control members are located below the panel with the first contro... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6533272 | Baseball game apparatus The present invention provides a simulated baseball game apparatus. The game is played generally in accordance with the rules of actual baseball. The apparatus resembles a baseball field and is designed to be played by at least two players. An offensive p... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6457710 | Magnetic hockey game A magnetic table game includes a table having a smooth top playing surface, a goal at each end of the table, a projectile defined by a plastic ring carrying a freely rotatable steel ball bearing, and a pair of plastic sticks containing a magnet in their b... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6302394 | Game table A game table includes an elongate horizontal base wall, and two short side walls and two long side walls to confine a simulated soccer field space. At least two manipulating rods are mounted rotatably and transverse to the long side walls in a first axis.... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6189885 | Game of the table soccer type A game, of the table soccer type, comprises a playing surface, pieces imitating players and a ball simulating a football. It has, along the table, on each of two opposite sides, a series of control levers, each lever corresponding to the movement of a pla... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5851012 | Ball game apparatus with spin imparting catapult A game apparatus (20) for propelling a ball (37) towards a target. The game apparatus (20) includes a housing (22), a launching mechanism (32) mounted in a first end portion of the housing, and a rotary-translating target (44) mounted on a second end port... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5810362 | Toy game A board game is provided having a generally rectangular game board including an undulating bottom surface defining parallel valleys having a part cylindrical shape and formed about parallel axes extending transversely of the board. Ball player assemblies ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5709385 | Sports board game A sports board game played on a substantially flat surface includes a rotatable platform and a plurality of interchangeable game boards, the game boards having a plurality of regions colorfully identified thereon. The board game also includes game pieces,... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5690330 | Toy basketball game with self-jumping player A toy basketball game having a court floor, a stand attached to the floor for a backboard ring and net, an articulated player and a movable base for the player. The player contains a compressible spring in one leg which is held compressed by a lever on th... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5653442 | Game with toy pistol for movement of game pieces on a substrate Game including game pieces (34, 34') which can be slid over a flat upper surface of a fixed, perpendicular, triangular or polygonal substrate and including at least one game pistol moveably seatable upon the substrate (30) for selective displacement or sh... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5613683 | Soccer game apparatus The sport of soccer is simulated with the aid of a representative playing field, a game ball, representative general athletes and representative goalkeepers. The general athletes are constructed from a resilient material such as cardboard, plastic, or she... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5597165 | Game device for a radio controlled vehicle A radio controlled vehicle having a device attached to the front of the vehicle for scooping and retaining a playing ball in a retaining area. The ball is scooped and captured by driving the vehicle towards the ball with sufficient velocity to guide it be... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5433443 | Table hockey game A game apparatus for a simulated hockey game including a game board having a playing surface and at least two pairs of opposing sides with each side having an opening for receiving a small object such as a disk. There are four sets of game playing menders... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5411256 | Slapball hockey game An improved slapball hockey game comprising a branched bar for simultaneously moving a plurality of team players, including an off-side offensive player disposed behind an opponent's goal, a dual deflector for accurately redirecting a playing ball toward ... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5297792 | Football simulation game A sport simulation game having a two dimensional playing field with a number of defensive players attached thereto and moveable in at least a widthwise direction. The offensive player is moveable in both a lengthwise and widthwise direction and is control... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5275401 | Game with mobile figures A game comprising a board on which figurines can be moved along longitudinal paths by driving mechanisms arranged below the board. The driving mechanisms each comprises at least one handle and connectors for joining the handle to the figurines. The game c... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5222735 | Slapball hockey game An interactive board game featuring a topologically unique playing surface with separate actuation for board playing elements and a goalie position. Formed in the shape of a hockey rink, the board is topologically unique in that it is transversely bisecte... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5112047 | Table football machine This table football machine is of the type having a box structure whose rectangular base reproduces a football pitch, in which each transverse vertical wall has an opening corresponding to a goal mouth and whose longitudinal vertical walls carry bearings ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5046734 | Table hockey game A table hockey game has a playing surface, goals, and a plurality of toy hockey players. Two of the toy hockey players on each side are movable to and from positions behind their opponent's goal. The hockey players move along guides comprising vertically ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5029861 | Kit for table game A kit comprises in combination a table game component and at least one other component removably positionable thereon. The table game component includes a playing surface defining an aperture therethrough, a rotatable drive disposed below the playing surf... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4482153 | Knock-out game This invention relates in general to a rolling sphere or sliding disk game, played on a generally hexagonal playing surface; wherein, a plurality of elongated mallets are disposed on the opposite ends of the game board, and the goals are positioned at the... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4480833 | Amusement game An electromechanical amusement game apparatus including a frame, a playing surface supported by the frame, at least one player element movable by a manually operated mechanism along an elongated track in the playing surface, and a player piece movable alo... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4346893 | Remote controlled sports game A remote controlled sports game having first and second figures operable on a playing surface with each of the figures having receivers tuned to different frequencies for operation by radio transmitters with the control of movement of the figures against ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4286785 | Tennis game board This invention relates to a game board whereby a mimic tennis game can be played. Two animated racket-supporting bodies disposed opposedly to each other across a play board are moved alternately so as to catch a ball which comes rolling on the board surfa... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4256306 | Spinning top hockey-type game A game having a playing surface for receiving a spinning top propelled onto the surface by a top spinning mechanism at the general midpoint of the playing surface. First and second oppositely disposed siderails are provided with the edges thereof a predet... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4146224 | Table football game A table football game including a box-like structure which is open at the top and a field of play in which play figures are arranged displaceably, for which purpose a push rod with its handle protruding outward is provided in each case under the field of ... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4119314 | Miniature soccer-football game toy An improvement in miniature toy football games in which figures representing players and goal-keepers move alternately along paths or trails provided on the surface of a plate which represents the playing field. The players and goal-keepers can be moved, ... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4076242 | Game device with a playing surface of pressurized air A pressurized plenum or air chamber is separated by internal walls to form slots, holes or the like. The separated chambers may be either in gas pressure communication or entirely separated from each other. Game piece manipulation devices operate a contro... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4042239 | Game playing structure particularly soccer game structure A game playing structure, particularly a soccer game where the ball, disposed on a playing field at a given distance from a player figure, is thrown away by the movement of a throwing portion of the player figure, the movement of this part being obtained ... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4012040 | Magnetic hockey game An improved magnetic hockey game having player pieces manipulated by magnets under a playing board surface and in which the goalie player pieces are controlled by the lateral movement of the forward player piece's controlling arm members.... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4002338 | Amusement game device An amusement game device played by two people having an arcuate playing surface supported above the surface of the ground by a support system, a plurality of holes formed in the playing surface at opposite lower ends thereof, a flipper device movably moun... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3970306 | Hockey game A hockey game for simulating the conditions that exist in ice hockey during "one on one" confrontations between a shooter and a goalie. The game includes a miniature hockey goal positioned on a playing surface, a goalie member horizontally and vertically ... | 07/20/1976 |
