Patent US 4,490,810

An automated interactive game, instruction and reference system having an optical laser videodisc player unit and using a videodisc record on which are recorded segmented groups of graphic and pictorial video information data interspersed with segmented groups of system control and programming data, a television video display unit, a user command/response unit having user manual input controls of variable functions and variable labelling means therefor to indicate the current function as established by signals from said videodisc record, and control processor means for receiving short segments of programming data from said videodisc record and distributing information signals from said videodisc record to the other units in accordance with said programming data.