Telephone access video game distribution center
CA 2067783 A1 · Owner: Rhoades, Donald E. · Inventors: Rhoades, Donald E.
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A digital interactive communication system designed to provide a plurality of remote subscribers with any one of a plurality of stored video games or like software packages through the use of a home computing assembly (10) maintained within the subscriber's home and structured to display video as well as generating audio on a standard television receiver (73) and further incorporating the ability to utilize contemporary video gaming control devices (12) for subscriber program interaction. A bidirectional communication link (74) is established over the telephone lines between the home computing assembly (10) and the central remote game storage center (60) wherein the software programs are …
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- Filed October 17, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 17, 2010.
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