Universal Entertainment Corporation

Aruze Co. Ltd.

Hideaki Iwamoto

Hiroshi Ito

Yukinori Inamura

Akira Osawa

Sakiko Kojima

Kaoru Kuroiwa

Keiki Inoue

To provide a gaming machine which can carry out a lizhi effect rich in impact without giving a feeling of boredom. A gaming machine being provided with a display device, which can display an image and can be switched to a transmissive condition or a non-transmissive condition, in front of a plurality of symbols which can be variably displayed, in the event that a combination of the plurality of symbols reaches a lizhi, as well as portions in front of the plurality of symbols taking on the non-transmissive condition, a symbol image corresponding to a last stop displayed symbol is variably displayed on the display device.

Gaming machine and game control method

To provide a gaming machine which can carry out a lizhi effect rich in impact without giving a feeling of boredom. A gaming machine includes: a first display device which displays a plurality of symbols which can be variably displayed and stop displayed; a second display device which, being provided in front of the first display device, can display an image and can be switched to a transmissive condition or a non-transmissive condition; and a controller which controls the first display device and the second display device, the controller, in a case in which a combination of a plurality of symbols reaches a condition in which it lacks one symbol of a prescribed combination, putting at least a portion in front of symbols other than a last stop displayed symbol into the non-transmissive condition.

A gaming machine, having a display unit that displays a game image for use in a game, including: an image data storage unit that stores common image data that is common to user countries in which the gaming machine is used and individual image data that differ from user country to user country; and a position changing unit that changes the display position of the game image displayed on the display unit, on a per user country basis, using the common image data and the individual image data, stored in the image data storage unit.

Gaming machine

When a doghouse symbol (T) is displayed in the display region (E) where the varying display is stopped at last, a Toby image () running from the doghouse symbol (T) toward a display region (A) is displayed. The display that the Toby image () jumps into the display region (A) is made, and a regular symbol displayed in the display region (A) changes into a Toby symbol (T). The chance games are executed for three times at maximum. Therefore, it is possible to provide a gaming apparatus whose attractiveness is enhanced by making a variety of display for announcing a game's state.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hideaki Iwamoto