Universal game monitoring unit and system

An embedded user interface incorporated into a gaming device is disclosed. The gaming device includes a gaming presentation of a base game and a gaming processor for controlling the base game, wherein the gaming processor of the gaming device enables play of the base game without requiring use of the embedded user interface. In one aspect, the embedded user interface comprises a player tracking interface including a display screen, wherein the player tracking interface enables display of a system game to a user, wherein the player tracking interface enables presentation of information to the user, and wherein the player tracking interface enables reception of information from the user. In this aspect, the embedded user interface also comprises an embedded processor, wherein the embedded processor employs an internal operating system and communicates with the gaming processor, wherein the embedded user interface drives visual gaming presentation components of the system game of which at least a portion of the visual gaming presentation components are physically external to the display screen.