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US 5,350,176 AGranted
Video game
OwnerPeter Hochstein, Jeff Tenenbauminventors
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A local video game (310) including a communicating controller (326). The controller (326) receives local command signals created by a set of player controls (316). The controller (326) also receives remote command signals received through a modem (324) which were created by a remote video game (320) through a similar set of player controls. The controller (326) includes a synchronizer (328) which produces synchronizing codes to be sent to the remote video game (320) to synchronize the games. The synchronizer (328) synchronizes the local and remote command signals such that both are received by a game microprocessor (322) simultaneously. Memory (336) stores the player parameters and are retrieved whenever the synchronization codes of the local (310) and remote (320) video games have not matched for a predetermined number of iterations.
A video game synchronizing assembly (310) adaptable to communicate a local video game (311) with a remote video game (320), the local video game (311) including a game microprocessor (322), at least two player ports (312,314), and a set of player controls (316) electrically connected to one (312) of said two player ports (312, 314), the set of player controls (316) manipulatable to create local command signals to be incorporated in the local video game (311) to define player parameters, said video game synchronizing assembly (310) comprising:
A local video game assembly (310) adaptable to communicate with a remote video game (320), said local video game assembly (310) comprising:
A method for playing a video game between a local video game (311) and at least one remote video game (320), the method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.