Patent ID: 8734256

Claim:
A multiplayer gaming system for enabling passengers traveling aboard a passenger vehicle to participate in a multiplayer game having game indicia and a plurality of game elements including one or more exposed game elements and at least one concealed game element associated with each passenger participating in the multiplayer game, comprising: a plurality of video interface systems being disposed at respective passenger seats aboard the passenger vehicle and for presenting different perspective views of the game indicia and the exposed game elements to each of the participating passengers to simulate an experience of natural participation in a tangible game; and a plurality of passenger control devices being provided at the respective passenger seats, each of said passenger control devices being associated with a selected video interface system and including a touchscreen display system disposed upon a handheld housing having a game controller interface portion with at least one button region, wherein said touchscreen display system and said one of the plurality of video interface systems form a customized game interface for privately presenting the concealed game element to a relevant participating passenger via the touchscreen display while inhibiting other participating passengers from viewing the concealed game element and for enabling the relevant participating passenger to actively control his participation in the multiplayer game by mapping a predetermined function with a predetermined location of said touchscreen display system and initiating the predetermined function upon activation of a relevant button region associated with the predetermined location.