Abstract: In an entertainment, or any other information processing system, in order to provide a startup screen that does not become boring even after being started up many times, image drawing data created based on accumulated historical data is displayed each time it is started up. The historical information includes the system startup time, the idle time during which no game is executed, the number of times an application is started, the identification number of an optical disk and the application startup time. The display data used in the creation of image drawing data includes the number of drawing objects displayed on the startup screen, their display positions, display colors and opacity and the like.

Abstract: In an entertainment, or any other information processing system, in order to provide a startup screen that does not become boring even after being started up many times, image drawing data created based on accumulated historical data is displayed each time it is started up. The historical information includes the system startup time, the idle time during which no game is executed, the number of times an application is started, the identification number of an optical disk and the application startup time. The display data used in the creation of image drawing data includes the number of drawing objects displayed on the startup screen, their display positions, display colors and opacity and the like.

Abstract: An entertainment device and a method of operating the device in which menu display is automatically modified in accordance with actually realizable functions. The entertainment device includes an operation controller that references application modules that hold application programs provided for each application, and a menu creation unit that creates and displays a menu of extracted applications and receives selection of the application to be started.