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Video game system with state of next world dependent upon manner of entry from previous world via a portal

  • US 6,267,673 B1
  • Filed: 09/14/2000
  • Issued: 07/31/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. For use with a video game system console having a game program executing processing system to execute a video game program and at least one player controller operable by a player to generate video game control signals;

  • a portable storage device for controlling the operation of said video game system console comprising;

    a memory medium for storing video game instructions and graphics data;

    accessing circuitry for coupling said video game instructions and said graphics data from said memory medium to said video game system console;

    said video game instructions including instructions for causing said video game processing system to generate digital signals representative of a first three dimensional world within which a player controlled character may enter and of a second three-dimensional world having at least first and second predetermined states, said video game instructions further causing said video game system to generate digital signals of a bounded area within which a player controlled character must enter to enter said second three-dimensional world, wherein a zone of said bounded area within which a player controlled character enters controls whether said second three-dimensional world will be in said first predetermined state or another state.

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