Patent ID: 8118680

Claim:
An amusement device comprising: (a) a display screen having a touchscreen, the touchscreen being configured to receive a plurality of touch inputs simultaneously; (b) a memory that stores a plurality of electronic games for selection and play; and (c) a controller configured to execute an application program, the application program being configured to operate as a shell and configured to: (i) execute a first game and a second game from the plurality of electronic games, the first and second games being one of single player games and games that do not support simultaneous multi-player functionality, and (ii) generally simultaneously display at least one first image from the first game on a first portion of the display screen and display at least one second image from the second game on a second portion of the display screen, wherein the application program is further configured to retrieve data from at least one of the first and second games and display the retrieved data on a third portion of the display screen.