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| 20080318663 | Gaming Machine - A gaming environment is described. If a first specific symbol (for example LION symbol | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090048011 | Gaming Machine - A gaming environment is described. A gaming machine has plural JACKPOTs. If JP symbols are displayed with a predetermined number or above, one of JACKPOT corresponding to the number of the displayed JP symbols will be provided to the player. Since the number of the displayed JP symbols explicitly corresponds to the JACKPOT to be provided, the player can easily under stand the JACKPOT to be provided based on the number of displayed JP symbols. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090082089 | Slot Machine Displaying Rendered Effects Based On Proportion Of Payout Amount To Bet Amount - A slot machine includes a display device, reels, a bet unit, motors, a memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to: (a) execute a lottery in response to an accepted bet; (b) send a signal indicating an instruction for rotating each reel to each motor; (c) determine an amount of credits to be awarded to a player in accordance with the lottery result; (d) determine an image to be displayed on the display device in accordance with a proportion of the amount of credits to the accepted bet; (e) cause the display device to display the image determined in (d); (f) send a signal indicating an instruction for causing each reel to come to a stop to each motor in accordance with the lottery result; and (g) when each reel comes to a stop, award the amount of credits determined in (c) to the player. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090239622 | Gaming System With Common Display And Control Method Of Gaming System - A gaming system of the present invention includes: a plurality of gaming machines; and a common display device connected to the gaming machines; wherein each of the gaming machines has: a display device, which displays a plurality of symbols; a controller, which executes a process of rearranging symbols arranged on the display device, after a gaming medium is betted, and executing a first game of making a payment according to the rearranged symbols and a process of transferring to a second game which is different from the first game while it is triggered that a predetermined condition is met; a communication interface, which notifies an execution state of the second game to the common display device, and the common display device has: a communication interface, which receives notification from each of the gaming machine; a memory, which stores an effect image relating to the second game and an explanatory image explaining contents of the second game; and a control, which executes a process of judging whether or not the second game is started at each of the gaming machines, based upon the notification from each of the gaming machines, a process of displaying the explanatory image stored in the memory while the second game is started at each of the gaming machines, and process of displaying an effect image stored in the memory in place of the explanatory image. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090239628 | Gaming System with Common Display and Control Method of Gaming System - A gaming system of the present invention includes: a plurality of gaming machines; and a common display device connected to the gaming machines, each of the gaming machines, comprising: a display device for displaying a plurality of symbols; a controller, which performs processes of: (a) executing a base game in which symbols arranged on the display device are rearranged after a gaming medium has been betted, and thereafter a payment is made in accordance with the rearranged symbols; (b) counting number of times of executing the base game; (c) causing the display device to display a countdown effect image stored in a memory, while the counted number of times of executing the base game reaches a second predetermined value after reaching a first predetermined value; and (d) transferring the base game to a free game executed without betting a gaming medium, in a case where the number of times of executing the base game reaches the second predetermined value; and a communication interface for notifying to the common display the controller-counted number of times of executing the base game, the common display device, comprising: a communication interface for receiving notification from each of the gaming machines; a memory for storing a countdown effect image for each of the gaming machines; and a controller, which performs processes of: (a′) judging whether or not there exist a plurality of gaming machines at which number of times of executing the base game reaches the first predetermined value, based upon the number of times of executing the base game, which is notified from each of the gaming machine; and (b′) preferentially displaying a countdown effect image for a gaming machine with a smaller number of times of executing the base game, which is to be executed until a transfer to the free game. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090239645 | Gaming System For Playing Common Game In Groups And Control Method Thereof - A gaming system includes a plurality of gaming machines and a control device connected to the gaming machines. Each of the gaming machines has: a display device, which displays a plurality of symbols; a controller, which performs a process of rearranging symbols arranged on the display devices after gaming mediums are betted, and thereafter, executing a base game in which a payment is made in accordance with the rearranged symbols; and a communication interface, which transmits information pertinent to the betted gaming mediums to the control device, together with information for identifying a transmission source. The control device has: a memory, which stores identification information for identifying a gaming machine participated in a common game executed simultaneously in groups and identification information for identifying a group to which the gaming machine belongs in association with each other; a communication interface, which receives information transmitted from each of the gaming machines; and a controller, which executes a process of specifying a group to which a transmission source of information received by the communication interface, based upon the information stored in the memory and a process of accumulatively summing up a reserved amount by the specified group, and then, storing the sum in the memory in order to reserve part of the gaming mediums betted at the gaming machine as the transmission source in groups to which the gaming machines belong. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090264182 | Gaming System Having A Plurality Of Gaming Machines Linked By Network And Control Method Thereof - A gaming system of the present invention comprises a plurality of gaming machines and a control device including a processor, wherein the processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) counting a part of a number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on number-of-game-media information received from the gaming machine, and (E) paying out the game media to the gaming machine as a transmission source of the number-of-game-media information being a basis of counting the number of game media counted in the processing (A) when a number of the gaming machines joining a game is less than a specific number. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090264183 | SLOT MACHINE DISPLAYING COUNT OF SYMBOLS DETERMINING PRIZE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A slot machine of the present invention comprising
| 10-22-2009 |
| 20090264184 | SLOT MACHINE DISPLAYING COUNT OF SYMBOLS DETERMINING PRIZE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A slot machine of the present invention comprising a display, and a controller programmed to execute processing of:
| 10-22-2009 |
| 20090264185 | Gaming System Having A Plurality Of Gaming Machines Linked By Network And Control Method Thereof - A gaming system of the present invention comprising a plurality of gaming machines each including a controller and a control device including a processor, wherein the processor is programmed to execute the processing of (A) cumulatively counting a part of a number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on number-of-game-media information received from the gaming machine, and (B) transmitting a common-game execution signal to the gaming machine, when the cumulative value has reached a predetermined value. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090264187 | Gaming System Having A Plurality Of Gaming Machines Linked By Network And Control Method Thereof - A gaming system of the present invention comprises a plurality of gaming machines and a control device including a processor, wherein the processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) cumulatively counting a part of a number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on number-of-game-media information received from the gaming machine, and (C) executing a common game, when a number of the gaming machines joining the game is equal to or more than a specific number. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090270158 | Gaming System Having A Plurality Of Gaming Machines Linked By Network And Control Method Thereof - A gaming system of the present invention comprises a plurality of gaming machines and a control device including a processor, wherein the processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) cumulatively counting a part of a number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on number-of-game-media information received from the gaming machine, and (E) paying out a fixed number of game media to the gaming machine determined based on a extracted random number, when a number of the gaming machines joining the game is less than a specific number. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090270159 | Gaming System Having A Plurality Of Gaming Machines Linked By Network And Control Method Thereof - According to a gaming system of the present invention, illuminants included in a coupling illuminated line provided for each slot machine are lighted. Such lighting is conducted to the illuminants in an order starting from the illuminant provided at a position closest to the gaming machine. Further, more illuminants are to be lighted in the coupling illuminated line provided for the gaming machine in which the larger number of game media have been betted. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090270160 | Gaming System Having A Plurality Of Gaming Machines Linked By Network And Control Method Thereof - A gaming system of the present invention comprises: a plurality of gaming machines; and a control device including a memory device and a processor; wherein the memory device is capable of storing a plurality of types of winning-machine determination programs for determining the gaming machine to which payout of a game medium is conducted, out of the plurality of gaming machines, the winning-machine determination programs respectively determining the gaming machine by methods different from each other, and the processor is programmed to execute processing of determining the gaming machine to which the payout of the game medium is conducted, by executing the winning-machine determination program of the type specified based on the counted number of the gaming machines joining the game and paying out a predetermined number of game media to the determined gaming machine. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090270161 | Gaming System Having A Plurality Of Gaming Machines Linked By Network And Control Method Thereof - A gaming system of the present invention comprises a plurality of gaming machines and a control device including a processor, and the processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) cumulatively counting a part of the number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on the number-of-game-media information received from the gaming machine, and (B) paying out the game media in number based on the cumulative value to any of the gaming machines, as well as displaying a numeral image corresponding to the cumulative value to the common display, when the cumulative value has reached a predetermined value. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090270167 | Gaming System Having A Plurality Of Gaming Machines Linked By Network And Control Method Thereof - According to a gaming system of the present invention, the control device cumulatively counts a part of the number of game media betted in each of the gaming machines as a cumulative value. Further, when the cumulative value reaches a predetermined value, a common game is executed in the gaming machine. When the common game is executed, the control device lights the illuminants included in the coupling illuminated line provided for each of the gaming machines based on a result of the common game and pays out a predetermined number of game media to the gaming machine provided with the coupling illuminated line with all the illuminants included therein having been lighted. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090275388 | Slot Machine - When the free game is started, the main processor displays the doors on the respective symbol display areas, as characters for covering the symbols. Additionally, the processor allows the player to select one symbol for each of the rows from among the 15 symbols positioned after the rotation of the reels has been stopped. Next, the processor changes the remaining symbols not selected to the same kinds of symbols as the selected symbols positioned on the respective rows. Then, the processor awards a prize based on the symbol combination after the symbols have been changed. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090291737 | GAMING MACHINE INCLUDING TERMINALS AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A gaming machine includes: a base game; gaming terminals; a bonus game configured to award a bonus payout more rewarding than the payout in the base game; a bonus payout indicator that displays the bonus payout; and paths, respectively corresponding to the gaming terminals, including light emitting portions arranged to form a channel extending from a position corresponding to each gaming terminal to the bonus payout indicator. In each gaming terminal, the base game is run independently from the other gaming terminals. The bonus game is run. A random number of the light emitting portions are activated toward the bonus payout indicator in a path corresponding to a gaming terminal in which a predetermined winning is met, every time the predetermined winning is met in the gaming terminals. The bonus payout is awarded in a gaming terminal corresponding to a path in which the light emitting portions turned active up to the bonus payout indicator. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090291753 | GAMING MACHINE HAVING A PLURALITY OF CONSOLES AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - In each gaming terminal, the base game is run independently from the other gaming terminals and the payout is awarded according to a predetermined winning. The bonus game is run based on a predetermined condition. When a predetermined winning is met in any of the gaming terminals, the state of the light emitting portions in the corresponding path having straight and bent portions is changed toward the bonus payout indicator, in numbers fewer in the straight portion than in the bent portion. The bonus payout is awarded in the gaming terminal corresponding to a path in which the light emitting portions underwent state changes up to the bonus payout indicator. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090305763 | GAMING MACHINE HAVING A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A gaming machine includes: a plurality of gaming terminals, a shared display, and a plurality of routs. Each of the gaming terminals has first light emitting portions which provide an effect to a game. Further, each of the gaming terminal runs a base game and a special game configured to award a special payout. Each of the routs is formed by arranging second light emitting portions from associated one of the gaming terminal to the shared display. The gaming machine thus structured executes a playing method including the steps of: every time a gaming terminal achieves a predetermined winning in the special game, (i) blinking a predetermined number of second light emitting portions forming a rout associated with that gaming terminal sequentially from the one closest to that gaming terminal, the predetermined number being determined based on the winning having been achieved, and (ii) blinking the first light emitting portions of that gaming terminal in sync with the second light emitting portions; and awarding a special payout to a gaming terminal whose associated rout has all its second light emitting portions being activated up to the shared display. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090305764 | GAMING MACHINE HAVING A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A gaming machine of the present invention includes: a plurality of gaming terminals each of which has a first light emitting portion, and which runs a base game and a special game configured to award a special payout; and a shared display. When the special game is run, an emission color of the first light emitting portion and that of the second emitting portions are determined for each gaming terminal, based on a game value. Further, every time a gaming terminal achieves a predetermined winning in the special game having been run, the first light emitting portion is activated in the emission color thus determined, and the second light emitting portions forming a route associated with the gaming terminal turn active so that a predetermined number of the second light emitting portions light in the emission color thus determined, sequentially from the one closest to the gaming terminal, according to the number of the predetermined winnings the gaming terminal have achieved. When second light emitting portions forming any one of the routes is activated all the way to the shared display, a special payout is awarded to a player of the gaming terminal associated with the route. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090312091 | GAMING MACHINE HAVING A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A gaming machine of the present invention is configured to include: terminal devices each of which executes a base game with a game value being bet and awards a prize according to a predetermined winning; routes each formed by continuously disposing route light emitters from a corresponding terminal device out of the terminal devices to a common display; the common display having common display light emitters arranged in a matrix and route light emitters arranged so as to form several straight lines each acting as an extension route, the common display being attachably/detachably unitized with the routes; and a controller. | 12-17-2009 |
