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System, method, and station interface arrangement for playing video game over telephone lines

  • US 4,570,930 A
  • Filed: 10/03/1983
  • Issued: 02/18/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for playing action video games over a telephone network,said video game system including at least a first computer system,said first computer system including an input device adapted to provide position data to said computer system;

  • andan interface device adapted to permit said first computer system to be interconnected to one or more computer systems over a telephone network, andcharacterized in thatsaid first computer system further comprises;

    means responsive to said input device for exchanging position data between said first computer system and said telephone network during a predetermined game generation time interval to transmit position data from said first computer system to said telephone network and to receive position data from said telephone network, said exchanged position data for use in the next generation time interval in said first and said other computer systems,means for synchronizing said exchange of position data so that the position data exchanged in said generation time interval between said first computer system and said telephone network corresponds to the same game generation; and

    means responsive to the synchronized position data exchanged during the preceding game generation time interval for running a current generation on said first computer system during said current generation time intervalwherein said synchronizing means comprises;

    means for identifying the order of succession of the generations of transmitted and received position data; and

    means responsive to the identification of said transmitted position data and said received position data being the same for using said transmitted position data and said received position data in the next generation of said first computer system.

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