Interactive video game system comprising toys with rewritable memories
View Patent ↗The invention disclosed herein relates to a video game system comprising a video game console and an object or toy used in connection with the video game console, wherein the object or toy has a rewritable data storage device, and wherein the video game console stores information in the rewritable data storage device in response to game play events occurring in a first gaming session. The stored information is subsequently retrieved by the video game console in a second gaming session, and the retrieved information is used to conduct the game play of the second gaming session.
1. A method useful in providing video game play using a video game device, comprising:
providing, by the video game device, video game play in which a virtual game character, controlled by a user using user inputs, is representative of a first toy, the first toy in communication with the video game device;
presenting, by the video game device, a game play challenge, the game play challenge relating to a virtual game object;
determining, by the video game device, that the user successfully completed the game play challenge;
after determining that the user successfully completed the game play challenge, storing, by the video game device, information relating to the game play challenge in a second toy in communication with the video game device, the virtual game object representative of the second toy.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information comprises an identifier.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the identifier comprises a numeric identifier.
4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the identifier specifies the video game object.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtual game object is manipulable by the virtual game character.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtual game character controlled by a user using user inputs may possess the virtual game object.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the video game device communicates with the first toy and second toy through a peripheral device coupled to the video game device.
8. A computer-readable medium having computer program instructions stored thereon for providing video game play, the computer program instructions, when executed by one or more physical processors of a gaming platform, causing the gaming platform to:
provide video game play in which a virtual game character, controlled by a user using user inputs, is representative of a first toy, the first toy in communication with the gaming platform;
present a game play challenge, the game play challenge relating to a virtual game object;
determine that the user successfully completed the game play challenge;
after determining that the user successfully completed the game play challenge, store information relating to the game play challenge in a second toy in communication with the gaming platform, the virtual game object representative of the second toy.
9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the information comprises an identifier.
10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the identifier comprises a numeric identifier.
11. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the identifier specifies the video game object.
12. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the virtual game object is manipulable by the virtual game character.
13. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the virtual game character controlled by a user using user inputs may possess the virtual game object.
14. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the gaming platform communicates with the first toy and second toy through a peripheral device coupled to the gaming platform.
15. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where in the gaming platform is a gaming console.
16. A video game system for providing video game play, the video game system comprising:
a gaming platform comprising one or more physical processors programmed by program instructions that, when executed, cause the gaming platform to:
provide video game play in which a virtual game character, controlled by a user using user inputs, is representative of a first toy, the first toy in communication with the gaming platform;
present a game play challenge, the game play challenge relating to a virtual game object;
determine that the user successfully completed the game play challenge;
after determining that the user successfully completed the game play challenge, store information relating to the game play challenge in a second toy in communication with the gaming platform, the virtual game object representative of the second toy.