Sega Sammy Creation Inc.

Taiji Sugai

Takashi Hasegawa

Yudai Takahara

Takeshi Hisajima

A lottery device comprises a control unit and a storage unit. The control unit implements a lottery function by executing a program stored in the storage unit. The lottery function comprises an associating function for associating, on the basis of random data, a plurality of positions on a virtual object and a plurality of marks, an operation control function for simulating a motion of the virtual object in a virtual space by physical operation, and a determining function for determining a lottery result on the basis of a mark associated with a position on the virtual object as determined according to a state of the virtual object in the simulation result.

Lottery device and lottery method

A game apparatus possesses a symbol display controlling function, a parameter controlling function and a granting function. The symbol display controlling function makes one or a plurality of symbols randomly displayed. The parameter controlling function increases a value of a parameter which has been set in advance in correspondence with a displayed number of predetermined symbols in a plurality of parameters in accordance with a result of display of the symbol(s) by the symbol display controlling function. When the value of the parameter has reached a predetermined value, the granting function grants a privilege according to the parameter which has reached the predetermined value concerned. The game apparatus realizes a game of higher entertaining property.

Game apparatus and game controlling method

A game environment where an operation status of a player's own station machine can be easily monitored and operated and an operation status of other station machines can be also easily monitored. A game machine capable of executing a specified game by connecting a plurality of station machines to enable communications between them, wherein each station machine includes a display panel that displays an image indicating progress of the game including a player's own operation status; and wherein the station machine is configured to be capable of: generating a first display image including the player's own operation status; generating a second display image including the player's own operation status and an operation status of other station machines; and switching between a first display mode to display the first display image on the display panel and a second display mode to display the second display image on the display panel.

Game machine, dice game system, and station machine

A game apparatus accepts a bet by a player on a betting target from among multiple betting targets. For each target, odds indicating a winning allotment in a first game are set. A drawing is conducted for the first game. According to the result of the drawing, a game medium is paid out. A stake is calculated for a second game whose payout ratio is 1, taking into account, along with a number of bet game media, a difference between a position payout ratio, which serves as a winning allotment expectation value per unit of game media, for the betting target bet on by the player, and a set payout ratio.

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Tokyo, Japan

Taiji Sugai