System for Combining Recorded Application State with Application Streaming Interactive Video Output

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• running a real-time application on one or more servers of a hosting service center, the real-time application being played or used by one or more users on one or more client devices remote to the hosting service center via compressed streaming interactive video transmitted over the Internet, the compressed streaming interactive video being compressed with a worst-case, round-trip latency of approximately 90 ms, from a user control input to display of a response to the user control input on a client device of a user, over a transmission distance of up to and including 1500 miles;
• continually recording, in a memory, application state information of the real-time application along with the compressed streaming interactive video as the real-time application is being played or used.