Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090298595 | Game system, and game apparatus and management apparatus constituting the same - A game system, and arcade game apparatus and management apparatus constituting the same are disclosed. In the game system, each game apparatus change at the same timing to a second mode in which a jackpot drawing is carried out in a state that a jackpot prize winning probability is high. When the jackpot prize is awarded during the second mode, a winning notice is sent to a management apparatus via communication network. The management apparatus transmits second mode end information to all the game apparatus when the number of game apparatus sending the winning notice reaches a predetermined number. After that, the game apparatus operating in the second mode changes to a first mode in which the jackpot drawing is carried out in a state that the winning probability of the jackpot prize is low. | 12-03-2009 |
20100210335 | GAME SYSTEM, AND GAME APPARATUS AND TOTAL PERFORMANCE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE GAME SYSTEM - The present invention is to be capable of carrying out an unusual performance beyond type of machine. | 08-19-2010 |
20100222131 | GAME SYSTEM, AND GAME APPARATUS AND EVENT PROCESSING APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE GAME SYSTEM - The present invention is to be capable of inhibiting the occurrence of an instance where the enjoyment of a player who plays with the game apparatus by the total event is decreased when a single total event is carried out among two or more game apparatuses. | 09-02-2010 |
20100222136 | GAME SYSTEM AND JACKPOT DRAWING APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE SAME - In order to prevent a situation where a winner for a jackpot award is consequently concentrated on a player who plays by using a particular game apparatus that is a part of a game system, the game system includes a jackpot drawing apparatus for performing the following processes: when the drawing unit determines winning of the jackpot award, payout amount data is read out from the storage unit, a payout process for paying out a payout target having at least a part of an amount indicated by the read-out payout amount data to the winning player is carried out, and at the same time, when a predetermined payout amount increasing condition is satisfied, the amount indicated by the payout amount data stored in the storage unit is cumulatively increased. The drawing unit carries out the jackpot drawing by carrying out a group drawing carried out for determining whether one winning group is selected or neither group is selected according to a predetermined group drawing condition, from previously determined two or more groups each configured by two or more game apparatuses, and by carrying out, when the winning group is selected by the group drawing, a winner drawing carried out for determining whether the player who wins the jackpot award is selected or neither player is selected, from the players who play by using the two or more game apparatuses belonging to the winning group. | 09-02-2010 |
20100222137 | GAME SYSTEM AND NOTIFICATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE SAME - In order for a player to develop a sense of great expectation that the player him/herself may win a jackpot award, a game system includes: a jackpot drawing apparatus for performing a payout process for paying out to the winning player a payout target having at least a part of an amount indicated by payout amount data that is obtained by reading it out from a storage unit when the drawing unit determines winning of the jackpot award, and for cumulatively increasing an amount indicated by the payout amount data stored in the storage unit when a predetermined payout amount increasing condition is satisfied; and a notification processing apparatus for performing, when performing the jackpot award winning notification process for notifying the player who has won the jackpot award, of winning of the jackpot award, prior to issuing the same, an advance notification process for issuing an advance notification to the effect that a player who plays by using each game apparatus belonging to a predetermined group configured by two or more game apparatuses including the game apparatus with which the player who wins the jackpot award plays is notified that the player who plays by using either game apparatus belonging to the predetermined group wins the jackpot award. | 09-02-2010 |
20100240441 | GAME SYSTEM, AND GAME APPARATUS AND CHALLENGE NOTIFYING APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE GAME SYSTEM - The present invention is to be capable of increasing an opportunity for a user to start playing a game apparatus that the user does not often play so as to allow a large number of users to know enjoyment of that game apparatus. | 09-23-2010 |
20100273559 | NETWORK SYSTEM OF GAME APPARATUSES FOR BUSINESS USE AND BENEFIT-IMPARTING CONDITION DECIDING APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE SAME - To give a player who plays a certain game apparatus less frequently an increased opportunity that the player plays selectively with the game apparatus. | 10-28-2010 |
20110306406 | GAME APPARATUS - It is an object to appropriately obtain an effect aimed at by changing the amount of payout objects to be paid out through specific control according to the bet amount of a game play that has produced a predetermined progress result regarding a start condition for specific control. | 12-15-2011 |
20110312408 | GAME SYSTEM - It is a subject to provide new game attractiveness for enjoying a drawing performed in a drawing machine that is shared by a plurality of game apparatuses by a plurality of players playing at these game apparatuses. | 12-22-2011 |
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20090005147 | Gaming Device and Its Control Method - It is possible to select plural types of drawing games in accordance with a condition and to provide a game player with the selected drawing games. A game device ( | 01-01-2009 |
20090005149 | Game Machine with Physical Lottery Mechanism - A game machine comprises a physical lottery system and a control unit, the physical lottery system imparting a physical motion to a ball on a bingo stage having a plurality of winning prize pockets corresponded to at least one option respectively, and determining a selected option depending on which of the winning prize pockets the ball has been taken in; the control unit executing a predetermined game in association with the lottery result by the physical lottery system and delivering to a player amusement value of the amount depending on the game result, wherein a probability to select each option is calculated based on the lottery result within a predetermined sampling period, and in reference to the calculated probabilities the payout rate of amusement value in the game is controlled. | 01-01-2009 |
20090061979 | GAMING DEVICE AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - It is possible to select plural types of drawing games in accordance with a condition and to provide a game player with the selected drawing games. A game device ( | 03-05-2009 |
20090318207 | GAME MACHINE - A medal as the first game medium and a ball as the second game medium are supplied to a play field section based on the player's operation, a basic game is executed in association with the operation of the medal, and while a dividend depending on the game result of the basic game is imparted to the player, a chance for obtaining dividend is imparted to the player, when the ball is ejected from the play field section due to the operation of the ball linked with the operation of medal, the number of the balls as the game media existing in the game field section is detected, and a privilege tied to delivery of dividend is imparted depending on a decrease of the number of the balls. | 12-24-2009 |
20100160020 | Drawing Machine for Jackpot Game, and Game Machine and Game System Using the Same - The present invention provides a drawing machine for jackpot game, etc., capable of preventing reduction of the game attractiveness even when one player wins the jackpot prize. | 06-24-2010 |
20100167804 | GAME MACHINE WITH PHYSICAL LOTTERY MECHANISM - A game machine of the present invention is a medal game machine where a lottery is performed at a satellite unit as a physical lottery system and when obtained numbers form a line on a bingo card, which is realized as an establishment of bingo. Medals are paid out directly or indirectly to a player. Wherein one privilege to be given to a player at the moment of establishment of bingo is selected in accordance with a control state of a payout rate of medals from a plurality of privileges each of which is connected with the payout of medals to a player and by which the affections given to the payout rate of medals are different from each other. | 07-01-2010 |
20100230895 | Token-Operated Game Machine - The present invention provides a token-operated game machine capable of increasing players who continuously play without stopping playing the game even when the foreign shape object falls into the token dropping groove. | 09-16-2010 |
20110210509 | MECHANICAL DRAWING MACHINE AND GAME APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - It is an object to prevent the occurrence of a situation that a drawing rolling object never enters into a drawing pocket. | 09-01-2011 |