Patent ID: 6692361
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
A coin operated game device comprising a computer processing arrangement, said computer processing arrangement including a computer processor and circuit board having an associated random access memory for running of one of a series of games, a first mass storage device being selected from the group of hard disk drive, compact disk drive with Compact Disk (CD) and Digital Video Disk (DVD) drive and DVD, and a second mass storage device, said second mass storage device being a flash memory device with a capacity of at least 10 mega bytes, said first mass storage device containing said series of games for selection and play on said game device; said computer processor including a game monitoring and storage management function which tracks individual games played and identifies the more popular games played, said game monitoring and storage management function automatically additionally storing or partially storing the identified more popular games played in said flash memory device; said computer processing arrangement upon selection of a game of said identified more popular games played accessing said flash memory device to initiate play of said game; said computer processing arrangement upon selection of a game other than said identified more popular games accessing said first mass storage device to initiate the selected game; said monitoring and storage management function automatically maintaining the more popular games played as a function of the ongoing usage of the coin operated game device.