Method of playing electronic game, and electronic game

• US 5,286,036 A
• Filed: 09/08/1992
• Issued: 02/15/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Abrasion Engineering Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Abrasion Engineering Company Limited
• Inventors: Barabash, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Grieb, William H.
• Application Number:
  US07/941,940
• Time in Patent Office: 525 Days
• Field of Search: 273/429, 273/430, 273/431, 273/432, 273/433, 273/434, 273/435, 273/436, 434/332
• US Class Current: 273/429
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/636 involving process of starting or resuming a game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/183 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/04 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying a further explanation

Abstract

When an entertaining electronic game is played, it is interrupted by an educational game, and can be resumed only after a problem of the educational game is solved by a player. Otherwise, it is interrupted again by the educational game, until the problem is solved.

Claims

1. A method of playing an electronic game, comprising the steps of

first playing an entertaining game in accordance with an entertaining game program;

then after a predetermined time automatically interrupting by a main program of the game the entertaining game by an educational game operated by an educational game program and having a problem to be solved; and

resuming by a main program of the game playing the entertaining game only after the problem of the educational game is solved by a player.

2. A method as defined in claim 1 and further comprising the step of automatically starting again the educational game if the problem of the educational game is not solved by a player.

3. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said interrupting includes interrupting of the entertaining game after a certain time of playing of the entertaining game.

4. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said interrupting includes interrupting of the entertaining game after ending a certain level of the entertaining game.

5. A method as defined in claim 1 and further comprising the step of bypassing the interrupting and going straight to the continuing playing the entertaining game without solving the problem of the entertaining game.

6. A method as defined in claim 1 and further comprising the step of removing the educational game and introducing another educating game into the same entertaining game.

7. A method as defined in claim 1 and further comprising the step of recording the solving of the problem of the educational game by a player.

8. An electronic game, comprising

an entertaining program;

an educational program with a problem to be solved; and

a main program designed so that when the entertaining program is played it is interrupted after a predetermined time by the educational program and resumed only after the problem of the educational program has been solved by a player.