Patent ID: 8302965
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of providing advertising for a table top game with a real stadium game effect, the method comprising: providing a table top ball game apparatus in a stadium effect by including a substantially horizontal playing surface, a substantially vertical boundary surface and surrounds that simulate a stadium structure or crowd scene; providing a score means or advertising in the simulated stadium structure that simulates a scoreboard or advertising boards at a stadium; relating the advertisement on the scoreboard or advertising boards with the start, progress or completion of a game on the table top ball game apparatus; and providing means for eliminating dead spots where a plurality of player figures cannot strike a ball on the playing surface, the means for eliminating includes a plurality of undulations that extend substantially across the horizontal playing surface and are spaced apart between the two goals, each of the plurality of undulations extending at least partially laterally to the longitudinal central axis of the playing surface for providing ball deflection that urges the ball to roll away from a respective undulation and across the substantially horizontal playing surface to remain within the range of the plurality of player figures mounted on a plurality of parallel user operated rods above the playing surface, the plurality of undulations forming at least a plurality of peaks that are located between each goal and a central area so that the ball is tended to zonal locations focused towards the plurality of player figures rather than merely to the goals or the center of the playing surface so as to more readily simulate a zonal field game play of a ball game, wherein the substantially vertical boundary surface includes an upper side surround formed by outwardly sloping sidewalls extending from an upper side of the substantially vertical boundary surface wherein the outwardly sloping walls assist to maintain the ball within the playing surface while allowing ready viewing of the playing surface and while providing a stadium appearance.