Patent ID: 8821209

Claim:
A method for amusement on an interactive device including a data processing apparatus with one or more inputs and one or more outputs, the method comprising: playing on the interactive device a first soundtrack continuously and uninterrupted in a first game iteration; detecting a sequence of user input actions received at points along the playing of the first soundtrack during the first game iteration via one of the inputs of the data processing apparatus; generating an output from one of the outputs of the data processing apparatus in response to the detection of at least one of the user input actions in the sequence of user input actions; storing into a memory connected to the data processing apparatus timestamp markers corresponding to the points of each of the detected sequence of user input actions, each of the timestamp markers designating a time instant at which the respective user input action was detected relative to the first soundtrack and corresponding to one of a plurality of time intervals uniformly segmented over an entire length of the first soundtrack; and generating outputs from the one of the outputs of the data processing apparatus on at least one interval of the received sequence of user input actions as correspondingly designated by the recorded timestamp markers, the outputs being generated at substantially the same time instant relative to the playing of a second soundtrack during a second game iteration in which the outputs are generated at equivalent points along the playing of the second soundtrack as when the respective one of the user input actions was detected during the playing of the first soundtrack as correspondingly designated by the timestamp marker therefor.