Patent ID: 7883420

Claim:
A video game system, comprising: an item of first media containing instructions executable according to a video game; a plurality of items of second media, each item containing data defining an aspect of the video game; and a video game console including: a housing having a first housing portion and a second housing portion pivotally coupled to the first housing portion, each of the first housing portion and the second housing portion having an inner surface, the inner surfaces of the first housing portion and the second housing portion facing each other when the housing is in a folded configuration and being spaced apart from each other when the housing is in an unfolded configuration; a first media device supported by the first housing portion and located on the inner surface of the first housing portion; a second media device supported by the second housing portion and located on the inner surface of the second housing portion; a control unit supported by the housing and configured to control the first media device to read the item of first media and to control the second media device to read the item of second media; wherein the plurality of items of second media includes: a first subset containing data defining a character in the video game, the second media device being configured to read one of the items of second media from the first subset at a first point in time during the video game; and a second subset containing data defining a modification to an attribute of the character of the video game, the second media device being configured to read one of the items of second media from the second subset at a second point in time during the video game, the second point in time being after the first point in time.