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An Internet marketing method and game is designed for promoting access to the web site which hosts the game, and to keep potential consumers occupied on the web site for exposure to several different advertisements, or to a few advertisements repeatedly. The inventive game is centered around a "poin

An Internet marketing method and game is designed for promoting access to the web site which hosts the game, and to keep potential consumers occupied on the web site for exposure to several different advertisements, or to a few advertisements repeatedly. The inventive game is centered around a "point and click" system in which a screen display is provided which includes a game image made up of a large number of individual pixels. A player is encouraged to randomly select a pixel or image area location on the game image which selected pixel or image area location is then compared to one or more stored prize winning pixel or image area locations. Players are encouraged to play the game as many times as they like, and with each play, one or more advertisements are displayed on the screen outside of the picture, and on losing response pages with each additional "play" of the game.

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An Internet marketing method and game is designed for promoting access to the web site which hosts the game, and to keep potential consumers occupied on the web site for exposure to several different advertisements, or to a few advertisements repeatedly. The inventive game is centered around a "poin

An Internet marketing method and game is designed for promoting access to the web site which hosts the game, and to keep potential consumers occupied on the web site for exposure to several different advertisements, or to a few advertisements repeatedly. The inventive game is centered around a "point and click" system in which a screen display is provided which includes a game image made up of a large number of individual pixels. A player is encouraged to randomly select a pixel or image area location on the game image which selected pixel or image area location is then compared to one or more stored prize winning pixel or image area locations. Players are encouraged to play the game as many times as they like, and with each play, one or more advertisements are displayed on the screen outside of the picture, and on losing response pages with each additional "play" of the game. elapse of a defined time interval; comparing said second live code to said verification code; and permitting operation of said computer file if said second live code is equal to said verification code. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein said verification code stored in said first unalterable memory is unencrypted. 10. An apparatus for authenticating a suspect computer file in a gaming device, comprising: circuitry external to said gaming device for computing a verification code for a trusted computer file containing a game program code or a game-related code; a first unalterable memory device in said gaming device adapted to being configured by said external circuitry to store said verification code and storing said verification code, said game program code or said game-related code being stored in other than said first unalterable memory device; circuitry in said gaming device for computing a live code from said suspect computer file on loading of said suspect computer file into an alterable memory in said gaming device; and circuitry in said gaming device for comparing said live code to said verification code from said first unalterable memory device and permitting operation of said suspect computer file if said live code is equal to said verification code. 11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein: said circuitry for computing the verification code hashes said trusted computer file; and said circuitry for computing the live code hashes said suspect computer file. 12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said circuitry for computing said verification code and said circuitry for computing said live code use a Panama hash code. 13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said unalterable memory device comprises a read-only memory. 14. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said circuitry for comparing further comprises circuitry prohibiting play if the live code is not equal to the verification code. 15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein said circuitry for comparing further comprises circuitry alerting an operator. 16. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising: circuitry for computing a second live code in said gaming device from said alterable memory on a designated event; and circuitry for comparing said second live code to said verification code stored in said unalterable memory device and permitting operation of said computer file if said second live code is equal to said verification code. 17. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising: circuitry for computing a second live code in said gaming device from said alterable memory on elapse of a defined time interval; and circuitry for comparing said second live code to said verification code stored in said unalterable memory device and permitting operation of said computer file if said second live code is equal to said verification code. 18. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said verification code stored in said first unalterable memory is unencrypted. 19. A computer system for authenticating a suspect computer file in a gaming device, comprising computer instructions for: computing a verification code for a trusted computer file containing a game program code or a game-related code external to said gaming device; storing said verification code in a first unalterable memory device in said gaming device, said game program code or said game-related code being stored in other than said first unalterable memory device; on loading of said suspect computer file into an alterable memory in said gaming device, computing a live code from said suspect computer file in said gaming device; comparing said live code to said verification code from said first unalterable memory device in said gaming device; and permitting operation of said suspect computer file if said live code is equal to said verification code. 20. The computer system of claim 19, wherein: said computing the verification code comprises hashing said trusted computer file; and said compu