Patent ID: 8550922

Claim:
A method of deactivating a game previously downloaded onto a gaming terminal, the method comprising: deactivating, with a remote server, the game previously downloaded onto the gaming terminal, said game comprising game logic, a non-modifiable data component and an accumulative data component, by, after receiving instructions to deactivate the game, automatically, without altering the game logic: (a) rendering the non-modifiable data component of the game unavailable for playing by setting a flag in at least one of (i) system software in the gaming terminal and (ii) an associated portion of a stored directory, said non-modifiable data component comprising executable code for playing the game; and (b) preserving the accumulative data component of the game on a memory device for a defined period of time after deactivating the game, wherein the accumulative data component of the game comprises data accumulated during plays of the game on the gaming terminal; wherein: the game logic is kept available for at least the defined period of time to enable visual redisplay of game history information.