Video game control unit
CA 2359518 A1 · Owner: Midway Amusement Games, Llc · Inventors: Gomez, George A.
Overview
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A video game control unit for use with a video game comprises a universal, force feedback transmitter and a plurality of different vehicle controls detachably, mountable to the transmitter. The universal force feedback transmitter transmits forces, felt by a simulated vehicle in the video game and receives and interprets , data from the video game indicative of the forces. One of the vehicle controls is mounted to the, transmitter at a given time according to a type of the simulated vehicle in the video, game. The one of the vehicle controls manipulates the simulated vehicle during play of, the video game.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 22, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 22, 2021.
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