Video game network

A video game system comprising:

• a plurality of user consoles, each of said consoles comprising:
• a user control and means for providing user signals responsive to activation of said user control;
• a memory for storing data and providing data output;
• means for sequencing through one of a plurality of predefined audiovisual works responsive to said data output and said user control signals;
• display apparatus comprising means for producing game audiovisual imagery representative of at least some of the user control signals responsive to said means for sequencing;
• and
• central control means for interlinking selected user consoles and for loading data into the memory of selected user consoles.

A distributed video game system comprising:

• means for selectively interlinking a plurality of individual game apparatus each having associated user responsive inputs, memory for storing data, and a display for providing a local audiovisual presentation locally generated at each said game apparatus responsive to said data stored in the respective memory of said respective game apparatus;
• means for coupling data among selected ones of said game apparatus;
• and
• means for repetitively transferring data for storage in said memory of selected individual game apparatus coupled to said means for coupling.