Konami Gaming, Inc.

Konami Corporation

Konami Co., Ltd.

Eiji Aida

Daisuke Nakamura

Satoshi Suda

Osamu Yoshimi

Keiri Yoshioka

Koji Kazaoka

Toshiaki Shimizu

To display a plurality of symbols in a plurality of display regions, upon starting a game, and in a case where trigger symbols are stop displayed in any of the plurality of display regions, to draw for specific display regions where trigger symbols are displayed, from a plurality of types of symbols so that the symbols are displayed having a predetermined relationship among the symbols in at least game units, and at the same time, to draw for general display regions that have symbols other than the trigger symbol displayed, from a plurality of types of symbols so that arbitrary symbols are independently displayed.

Gaming device for determining a re-drawing group for following games

A method of providing a slot game to a player is described herein. The slot game includes a plurality of reels. Each reel includes a plurality of symbol positions and a plurality of game symbols that are displayed in each of the symbol positions in a predetermined order. The method includes allowing the player to make a wager on the game, initiating a primary game and responsively spinning the reels, randomly determining an outcome of the primary game and responsively stopping the reels to display the outcome of the primary game in a grid, and awarding a first award to the player based on the primary game outcome. The method also includes detecting if a triggering condition occurs in the primary game outcome, and responsively modifying a reel function of at least one of the reels to generate an outcome of a secondary game including the modified reel function.

Gaming machine having modifiable reel features

A gaming machine for providing a game to a player is described herein. The gaming machine includes a display device for displaying the game and a game controller. The game includes a plurality of reels having a predetermined number of elements, wherein each element has an associated symbol from a set of symbols and at least one reel has a run of consecutive elements. The game controller initiates an instance of the game, responsively displays the game on the display device, randomly determines an outcome of the game, and responsively spins and stops the reels to display the outcome. The outcome includes at least two reels having the same symbols being displayed in the same symbol positions. The game controller displays each one of the at least two reels having a run of consecutive elements, and populates the run of consecutive elements with an identical symbol.

Gaming machine and methods of allowing a player to play gaming machines having synchronized symbols

A gaming machine for allowing a player to play a game is described herein. The gaming machine includes a display device and a game controller for displaying a game on the display device. The game includes a plurality of reels having a plurality of symbol positions and a plurality of game symbols displayed in each of the symbol positions in a predetermined order. The game controller allows a player to make a wager on the game and responsively displays the game on the display device. The game controller randomly determines an outcome of the game, responsively spins and stops the reels to display the outcome including at least two reels having the same symbols being displayed in the same symbol positions, and awards an award to the player as a function of the outcome.

A display includes a plurality of display areas connected with each other, each operable to variably and stationarily display one kind of plural hexagonal indicium. A controller determines a win occurrence, in a case where an identical kind of indicium are stationarily displayed on at least two of the display areas which are adjacently arranged on the display.

Gaming machine, method and computer program for controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium having the program stored therein

In a slot machine, the display unit includes a region on which a plurality of symbol columns and rows are displayed. Normal directions of surfaces of the region, on which the symbol columns placed at both ends of the symbol rows are displayed, intersect in front of the display unit. The display unit preferably includes mechanical reels placed at ribs of a fan. Normal directions of circumferential surfaces of the mechanical reels at the forward ends thereof intersect at substantially the same point, and thereby the front ends oppose a player. The display unit may be alternatively an electronic display device that includes a curved or bent screen. Normal directions of surfaces on which video reels are displayed intersect at substantially the same point, and thereby the surfaces oppose a player.

Slot machine

A game machine is disclosed which includes a display unit, a memory unit which stores a cell array and a plurality of game symbols, a display control unit, and a game control unit. The display control unit displays the cell array, a peripheral region surrounding the cell array, and the plurality of game symbols on the display unit, animates the plurality of game symbols so that the plurality of game symbols move across the cell array and the peripheral region along trajectories that include curved trajectories, and positions and displays a static combination of game symbols in the cell array. The game control unit selects the static combination of game symbols to be displayed in the cell array, and determines whether a winning combination of game symbols will be included in the static combination of game symbols.

Game machine

A display includes a plurality of matrix areas. Each of the areas is operable to display one of plural indicias. A controller determines an occurrence of a win when predetermined indicias are stationarily arranged in the display so as to form a predetermined relative positional relationship at anywhere in the matrix areas.

Gaming machine and method of controlling the same

Each of a plurality of reels is provided with a plurality of symbols including at least one special symbol. At least one payline is extending across the reels. At least one electro-optical panel includes a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate which sandwiches an electro-optical substance therebetween. At least one of the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate is formed with at least one bored portion having a shape substantially coincident with an contour of the special symbol, the electro-optical panel disposed in front of each of the reels such that the bored portion is placed on the payline. A controller controls a state of the electro-optical substance in accordance with a predetermined rule to adjust a transparency of the electro-optical panel.

In a gaming machine provided with operating members actuated by human, a game processor proceeds a game in accordance with the actuation of the operating members. An inhibition requirement determinant determines whether a predetermined inhibition requirement is satisfied while the game processor proceeds the game. A game inhibiter performs game inhibition processing for diverting an attention of the player toward something other than the game, when the inhibition requirement determinant determines that the inhibition requirement is satisfied.

Electronic game that provides messages when limits are exceeded and inhibits the game

A slot machine includes a housing having a front side with an operation panel disposed thereon, a main display device having a screen disposed on the front side of the housing above the operation panel, and a sub-display device disposed on the operation panel. A main input device accepts manual operation of a player and issues information corresponding to the manual operation of the player. The main input device includes a first input device provided on the operation panel and a second input device provided on the screen of the main display device. A game controller controls a process of a game performed on a screen of the main display device based on the information issued from the main input device.

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Tokyo, Japan

Eiji Aida