Patent ID: 11928939
Assignee: nan
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A method of conducting a coin-operated arcade game system comprising:
providing a physical see-through game box, an internal color game display, a hopper for ball dropping coupled with a hopper sensor for detecting said ball dropping, a microprocessor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a memory component, a circuit board, an audio output device;
providing an external game control panel that further comprises a coin input device operable to accept a coin from a player at said game box;
providing a gameplay, that comprises a graphical interface that in turn comprises a left virtual wheel and a right virtual wheel, a left virtual X sign and a right virtual X sign, a prize drop progress bar, a prize ticket counter, a ball counter, a coin counter;
wherein said microprocessor, said GPU, and said circuit board, together, control said gameplay;
providing a prize package dispenser and a rack thereof;
receiving a coin via a coin input device of an external game control panel of a physical see-through game box of said coin-operated arcade game system;
initiating a gameplay, via a microprocessor for a gameplay of said coin-operated arcade game system, in response to receiving said coin; wherein spinning said left and right virtual wheels;
causing an internal ball purveyor to release a preconfigured number of balls per said coin into a ball storage;
detecting that said ball release control button is pressed and releasing a ball down said hopper from said ball storage;
detecting said ball drop via said hopper sensor and sending a ball drop signal to said microprocessor;
commanding said left and right virtual X signs to blink in response to said ball drop signal;
animating a virtual ball drop of a virtual ball on said graphical interface;
commanding said left and right virtual wheels to send their sectors' data, including relative position to said left and right virtual X signs', respectively, in response to said ball drop signal;
causing a prize win response in response to a prize win event when said virtual ball meets a sector of at least one of said left and right virtual wheels;
providing a flat tray to catch a ball after its exiting said hopper and a prize package after it drops off said rack of said prize dispenser;
providing a sweeper to push said ball outward toward said game box's front;
providing a ball funnel to catch said ball after it drops off said flat tray;
providing an internal ball purveyor to transport said ball to said ball storage;
providing a prize pickup bin to catch said prize package after it drops off said flat tray.