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Video sports game system using trading cards

  • US 5,411,259 A
  • Filed: 11/23/1992
  • Issued: 05/02/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/23/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A video game system, comprising:

  • an electronic game system for use with a video monitor for displaying the playing of a video game, wherein the players in the video game are representative of actual people with known performance information;

    software control means for carrying out a video game and controlling the display on the monitor in accordance with a software program stored in said software control means and in accordance with certain selected input data for the players in the video game supplied by trading card elements and certain additional input data for said players which is stored in a separate system memory means and accessed by access indicia on said trading card elements, Wherein the access indicia on each trading card accesses additional input data for the player featured on the trading card;

    means for obtaining for said software control means said additional input data, which includes performance information, from said system memory means;

    card reader means supplying said selected input data and said access indicia to said software control means, in response to the trading card elements being selectively placed therein; and

    trading card elements having stored thereon said selected input data concerning performance information of said players and said access indicia, wherein said selected input data and said access indicia are readable by said card reader means.

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