Interactive video game system comprising toys with rewritable memories
AssigneeActivision Publishing, Inc.
InventorsPaul Reiche, Ray West
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Abstract
The invention disclosed herein relates to a video game system comprising a video game console and an object or toy used in connection with the video game console, wherein the object or toy has a rewritable data storage device, and wherein the video game console stores information in the rewritable data storage device in response to game play events occurring in a first gaming session. The stored information is subsequently retrieved by the video game console in a second gaming session, and the retrieved information is used to conduct the game play of the second gaming session.
Claims18
A method useful in providing video game play using a game device, comprising:
- providing for video game play in which a game character, controlled by a user using user inputs, encounters another game character;
- determining if a predefined game event occurs involving the game character and the other character;
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- storing information of the other game character for later use by the user.
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A method useful in providing video game play using a video game device, comprising:
- providing, by the video game device, video game play in which a virtual game character, controlled by a user using user inputs, is representative of a first toy, the first toy in communication with the video game device;
- presenting, by the video game device, a game play challenge, the game play challenge relating to a virtual game object;
- determining, by the video game device, that the user successfully completed the game play challenge;
- after determining that the user successfully completed the game play challenge, storing, by the video game device, information relating to the game play challenge in a second toy in communication with the video game device, the virtual game object representative of the second toy.
A computer-readable medium having computer program instructions stored thereon for providing video game play, the computer program instructions, when executed by one or more physical processors of a gaming platform, causing the gaming platform to:
- provide video game play in which a virtual game character, controlled by a user using user inputs, is representative of a first toy, the first toy in communication with the gaming platform;
- present a game play challenge, the game play challenge relating to a virtual game object;
- determine that the user successfully completed the game play challenge;
- after determining that the user successfully completed the game play challenge, store information relating to the game play challenge in a second toy in communication with the gaming platform, the virtual game object representative of the second toy.
A video game system for providing video game play, the video game system comprising:
- a gaming platform comprising one or more physical processors programmed by program instructions that, when executed, cause the gaming platform to:
- provide video game play in which a virtual game character, controlled by a user using user inputs, is representative of a first toy, the first toy in communication with the gaming platform;
- present a game play challenge, the game play challenge relating to a virtual game object;
- determine that the user successfully completed the game play challenge;
- after determining that the user successfully completed the game play challenge, store information relating to the game play challenge in a second toy in communication with the gaming platform, the virtual game object representative of the second toy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.