Patent ID: 7338376

Claim:
A vehicle-based video game system for permitting a passenger to execute a video game associated with a first special purpose video game system comprising: at least one server disposed on a vehicle, said server including a mass storage device for storing a video game library comprising plural video game files including emulation software emulating at least some hardware functionality enabling simulation of said special purpose video game system, where each video game file includes a corresponding binary image file of the game, and for storing non-video game application files enabling a non-video game application; said server being operable to download said emulation software, selected video game files, and non-video game application files; a plurality of passenger video game processing devices, each passenger video game processing device being disposed on said vehicle and connected to said server, and including: a display, a user input interface, an audio playback transducer, and a processor; said processor being operable in a first simulation mode under the control of said emulation software downloaded by said server to display a menu of games from which a passenger selects a game to play and to replicate a graphics function associated with said special purpose video game system to enable simulation of video game play in accordance with one or more of the video game files downloaded by said server associated with the selected game on said first special purpose video game system, and being operable in a second mode under the control of one of said non-video game application files downloaded by said server to perform a non-video game application selected via said user interface and to control the display of information related to the non-video game application.