SHOOTING GALLERY APPARATUS IN WHICH A PROGRAMMED ROBOT COMPETES WITH THE OPERATOR

摘要

There is provided amusement apparatus enabling an externally rearwardly positioned operator to peer forwardly into an upright hollow housing and containing therewithin at least one target that is scoreably negotiatable by the operator with a manipulatable weapon attached to the housing. The housed target is also independently scoreably negotiatable by a programmed visible robot which seemingly to the operator takes aim and actively competes with him for the same target. Preferred embodiments include a plurality of distinct target locations, scheduling for automatically briefly displaying individual targets according to a predetermined schedule whereby the operator and robot might simultaneously compete for being the first to score a same target, an indicator to indicate the relative success of the operator and the robot of negotiating the target, reversing apparatus for the robot program relative to the targets presentation schedule thereby frustrating the operator's attempt to anticipate the robot, and handicaps to sharpen the robot and operator competition according to the operator's demonstrated weapon skill.