Patent ID: 7955168

Claim:
A system of integrating an amusement ride and a video game, and providing interactions between the amusement ride and the video game, the system comprising: the amusement ride having a vehicle movable along a path, a passenger position in the vehicle; a simulated weapon associated with the passenger position; a target; a detector for detecting an emission from the simulated weapon as operated by a passenger of the vehicle; a controller for determining whether the emission hits or misses the target; a communications link to the video game on a computer system, the video game on the computer system being remotely located relative to the amusement ride and comprising a display representing the amusement ride, the display having a plurality of simulated features corresponding to events at the amusement ride which correspond to the activities of the passenger of the vehicle, and wherein the computer system is configured to gather event inputs from at least one sensor associated with the amusement ride and communicate the event inputs to the video game, and to change the display of the video game according to the event inputs gathered from the at least one sensor, and further configured to change the video game display according to user inputs received from an interface of the video game, and further configured to communicate the user inputs from the video game to the amusement ride for changing characteristics of the amusement ride according to the user inputs from a user of the video game.