Patent ID: 6164971
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: A63F,G09B

Abstract:
A computer controlled interactive historical event re-enactment system, comprising in combination:an electronic computer data base and operating system including a data processing system programmed for reenacting and displaying a scenario constituting a historical event,said operating system including means for providing and organizing at least one historical role for interactive intervention by at least one player within a limited range of interactivity in the reenacting of said historical event that has potential to chance historical outcome of the historical event dependent on the intervention by the at least one player,interactive control means permitting said at least one player to intervene and participate in said at least one historical role reenacted in the historical event scenario including providing personal input within said limited range of interactivity serving thereby to provide a conclusion to the historical event reflecting the intervention in the at least one historical role participated in by said at least one player, andinteractivity processing means for formulating with said operating system a computer analysis and synthesis subroutine for developing from the intervention by said at least one player within said limited range of interactivity in said historical event scenario a synthesized outcome of the historical event to modify following scenario portions to reflect consequences of the intervention upon the historical event from said participation in the at least one historical role by said at least one player, so as to provide historical education.