Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
20100216546 | GAME SYSTEM, AND JACKPOT DRAWING APPARATUS AND PARTICIPATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE GAME SYSTEM - In order that a game apparatus is made to participate in a jackpot drawing that responds to a request made by a manager or the like, who manage the game apparatus, the present game system includes a participation processing apparatus for selecting, for each game apparatus, one or at least two jackpot drawing apparatuses for executing a jackpot drawing in which each game apparatus can be regarded as the drawing target, from among two or more jackpot drawing apparatuses, according to a predetermined participation application condition, and at the same time, for selecting, for each game apparatus, one or at least two jackpot drawing apparatuses for executing a jackpot drawing in which each game apparatus is not regarded as the drawing target, from among the two or more jackpot drawing apparatuses, according to a predetermined participation decline condition. When accepting the participation application request transmitted from the participation processing apparatus, the two or more jackpot drawing apparatuses store, as a jackpot drawing process target, identification information of a game apparatus relating to the participation application request, in the drawing target storage unit of each jackpot drawing apparatus; when accepting a participation decline request transmitted from the participation processing apparatus, excludes the identification information of the game apparatus relating to the participation decline request from the jackpot drawing process target; and regards a game apparatus played by a player as a drawing target, out of the game apparatuses corresponding to the identification information stored, as the jackpot drawing process target, in the drawing target storage unit of each jackpot drawing apparatus. In this way, a jackpot drawing process in which whether the game apparatus that is the drawing target wins the jackpot award or does not win the jackpot award is determined is carried out. | 08-26-2010 |
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 |
20100240456 | GAME SYSTEM AND RELAYING APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE SAME - The present invention is to be capable of removing a disadvantage caused by that rough payment amount of payout objects to be paid out when a jackpot award is won is displayed differently in each game apparatus | 09-23-2010 |
20100267447 | GAME SYSTEM AND JACKPOT DRAWING APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE SAME - The present invention improve disadvantages such as a limited jackpot drawing performance and so on. | 10-21-2010 |
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 |
20100331071 | GAME SYSTEM, AND JACKPOT DRAWING APPARATUS AND GAME APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE SAME - Where a drawing machine for jackpot game is utilized in a game system in which a plurality of game apparatuses are divided into a plurality of groups for management, a payout ratio is easily managed for each group. | 12-30-2010 |
20110003635 | GAME SYSTEM INCLUDING DRAWING MACHINE FOR JACKPOT GAME - A pool amount (payout amount) of a jackpot award is adjusted without deteriorating individual game attractiveness of all game apparatuses even in a game system in which game apparatuses of different models are mixed. | 01-06-2011 |
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 |
20130217461 | GAME SYSTEM, AND JACKPOT DRAWING APPARATUS AND GAME APPARATUS CONSTITUTING THE SAME - In a game system or a drawing machine for a jackpot game, a drawing unit of the drawing machine for a jackpot game performs jackpot drawing in a manner that a player who plays a particular game apparatus among a plurality of game apparatuses is not determined as a winning player of a jackpot award, when a sum of an apparatus-specific jackpot balance amount indicated by game apparatus's own apparatus-specific jackpot balance amount data stored in an apparatus-specific jackpot balance amount storage unit and an apparatus-specific maximum loss amount indicated by a game apparatus's own apparatus-specific maximum loss amount data stored in the apparatus-specific maximum loss amount storage unit, is equal to or more than a payout amount indicated by payout amount data stored in a payout amount storage unit. | 08-22-2013 |