Interactive video game system comprising toys with rewritable memories

A system useful in providing videogame play, comprising:

• a game device including at least one processor;
• a first toy including rewritable memory storing information relating to a first game character;
• a peripheral device in communication with the game device, the peripheral device including circuitry for wirelessly commanding reads and writes to the rewritable memory of the toy;
• the at least one processor configured by program instructions to:
• load information relating to the first game character from the first toy into the game device through the peripheral;
• provide gameplay in which a first game character under control of user inputs to the game device encounters a second game character, the second game character controlled by video game instructions of the video game;
• detect a game play event indicating capture of the second game character;
• command writing of information of the second game character to memory of a second toy;
• and
• command presentation of a sensory perceptible simulated transfer of the second game character to the toy.

A system useful in providing videogame play, comprising:

• a game device including at least one processor;
• a toy including rewritable memory storing information relating to a first game character;
• a peripheral device in communication with the game device, the peripheral device including circuitry for wirelessly commanding reads and writes to the rewritable memory of the toy;
• the at least one processor configured by program instructions to:
• load information relating to the first game character from the toy into the game device through the peripheral;
• provide gameplay in which a first game character under control of user inputs to the game device encounters a second game character, the second game character controlled by video game instructions of the video game;
• detect a game play event indicating capture of the second game character;
• command writing of information of the second game character to the memory of the toy;
• and
• command presentation of a sensory perceptible simulated transfer of the second game character to the toy.