Multi target-shooter game apparatus

Claim 1

A multiple-target shooter game apparatus comprising: (a) a light beam shooter device disposed at a shooter position and freely moveable by a player to permit said shooter device to be aimed at individual ones of stationary prepositionable multiple targets by traversing through a wide scanning area of at least 90° up to approximately 180°, to enable the player to selectively direct the light beam in a plurality of different directions from said shooter position; (b) a plurality of separate self-contained frames constituting said multiple targets each including self-standing means for supporting said frame in a stationary upright position facing toward said shooter position to enable the positioning of each of said frames in various different pre-positioned locations selected by the player and spaced apart one from another through a wide scanning area of at least 90° thereby allowing a player to arrange said frames into a plurality of distinctly different arrays wherein each of said frames may be spaced a different distance from said shooting position and from each other in virtually any combination of vertically displaced positions throughout a horizontal scanning area of at least 90° up to 180°; (c) a target positioned on a front surface of each of said separate frames said target including a light sensitive photoelectric cell for being engaged by the light beam from said shooter device; (d) electronic control means operably connected to each of said targets for activating for a short space of time and then deactivating different ones of said photoelectric cells in a random sequential order not known in advance by the player, and including sensing means for requiring the player to shoot said light beam shooter device accurately at the activated target in order to score; (e) separate indicator means on each of said targets and coupled to said control means for indicating that the photoelectric cell of the associated target is activated so that the player must visually scan all of said frames and the individual indicating means associated therewith throughout a wide scanning area of at least 90° to determine which of said targets is activated before quickly turning in the proper direction and aiming said shooting device at the randomly activated target in order to engage said photoelectric cell associated with the activated target with the light beam before said target is deactivated; and (f) electrical connector wires means operationally connecting said photoelectric cells and said indicator means with said electronic control means, said wires means designed and arranged for permitting said separate frames to be prepositioned by the player in physically disparate locations including positions wherein the respective front surfaces of some of said frames are at least partially facing each other while at the same time all of said frames are facing said shooter position.