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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
May. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Higashiyama-ku, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 ;
Abstract
A video game apparatus includes an external ROM. This external ROM has a sound memory area memorized with sound sequence data. The sound sequence data includes a plurality of block sequences for each of three status of “move”, “fight” and “stop” of a player object. A CPU detects a status of the player object according to a mode flag, and read to a RAM a block sequence in compliance with the status detected. It is possible to output a series of game melodies in a manner matched to the status of the player object by the repetition of using the plurality of block sequences.