Universal Entertainment Corporation

Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) Limited

Aruza Gaming America, Inc.

Takehisa Itagaki

Masumi Fujisawa

Hiroki Munakata

Daisyun Okamoto

Yoichi Kato

Kenta Sugano

Kenta Kitamura

Jun Hirato

Kensaku Yoshikawa

Yoshinori Kondo

Yukihiro Kawakami

Masaya Honda

Masahiro Yoshida

Yuji Miyagawa

Toshitaka Suzuki

Hiroki Nakamura

Hiromoto Yamauchi

Kenji Enokido

Kazumasa Yoshizawa

Hiroki Saito

Naoki Terada

Makoto Miyawaki

Susumu Mio

Masahiko Konishi

Masafumi Uchida

Bungo Matsumura

Hiroshi Takahashi

Yukinori Inamura

Gou Miyamoto

Takeshi Narita

Hideko Aoki

Fumihiro Watabe

It is an object to provide a gaming machine configured to yield a rescue award according to the number of result determination areas on which the player has placed a bet, when games without any benefit are continued. To this end, a slot machineexecutes a process of receiving a selection of ways bet through a control Panel, incrementing the game play count on a counter corresponding to the ways bet selected, upon start of the normal game, determining whether the game play count on the counter has reached the threshold game play count, and awarding the benefit when the game play count is determined as to have reached the threshold game play count.

Gaming machine providing benefit according to game play count

A gaming machine runs a normal game, and runs a free game when the right to run the free game is awarded. In the free game, symbols are rearranged on a display device and a benefit is awarded based on a combination of the rearranged symbols, bonus random determination is executed based on a bonus random determination table for a number of times corresponding to the number of specific symbols rearranged, the right to run the bonus game obtained as a result of the bonus random determination is accumulatively stored in the running right stocking area of the storage device, and the bonus random determination is repeated for the awarded number of times of the free game. After the end of the free game, the bonus game is serially executed for the number of times of the bonus game accumulatively stored in the running right stocking area.

Gaming machine

Provided is a gaming machine that presents a prediction of the start of free games provided in bonus games to be easily noted by the player, to attain the player's expectation for the free games. When a free game trigger or retrigger is established, the gaming machine controls selection and implementation of predictive effects for indicating that free games are to be started (or retriggered) depending on the positions of the symbols to stop, before displaying stopped symbols.

As a normal game, symbols to be rearranged on a lower image display panelare randomly determined, and the determined symbols are rearranged. When the combination of the rearranged symbols achieves bonus trigger, how many bonus symbolis included in the symbols achieving the bonus trigger is included is determined. For the number of times corresponding the determined number of the bonus symbol, random determination is executed based on the bonus game number random determination table. The total sum of the numbers of times of execution of the free game having been awarded is awarded as the number of times of execution of the free game.

Gaming machine and control method thereof

When a normal game is executed and a benefit awarded as a result of the game is the right to execute a free game, video reel groups of types A to E are randomly associated with first to fifth video reelsto, respectively, a player selects one of the first to fifth video reelsto, the type of the video reel group associated with the selected video reel is set as a video reelused in the free game, and the free game is executed by using the selected video reel. After the free game is executed 6 times, whether to award the right to execute the free game again is randomly determined, and the right to execute the free game 6 times is awarded if it is determined that the right to execute the free game is awarded.

Gaming machine executing free game shifted from normal game and method of controlling same

Provided is a gaming machine that is able to offer a variety of gaming patterns with avoidance of monotony during a free game that is a game played in a bonus game. A gaming machine, when a free game trigger is established, performs a control of shifting a game from a base game to a free game. In the free game, symbols are displayed in rotation and stopped in a symbol display regionin accordance with a result of a symbol lottery. When picture symbols are consecutively arranged on one reel, display regions where the consecutive symbols are arranged are coupled into a coupled display region, and a corresponding picture is displayed in the coupled display region.

Provided is a gaming machine that is able to offer a variety of gaming patterns with avoidance of monotony during a free game that is a game played in a bonus game. A gaming machine, when a free game trigger is established, performs a control of shifting a game from a base game to a free game. In the free game, symbols are displayed in rotation and stopped in a symbol display regionin accordance with a result of a symbol lottery. In the display of the symbols in rotation, the symbols are scrolled in a direction reverse to a rotation direction employed in the base game.

Provided is a gaming machine that is able to offer a variety of gaming patterns with avoidance of monotony during a free game that is a game played in a bonus game. A gaming machine, when a free game trigger is established, performs a control of shifting a game from a base game to a free game. In the free game, symbols are displayed in rotation and stopped in a symbol display regionin accordance with a result of a symbol lottery. When a top symbol is displayed in rotation in the symbol display region, the top symbol is scrolled at a speed lower than the other symbols.

A plurality of gaming terminals provided in a parallel manner, a plurality of upper displays which are provided in a parallel manner independently from the gaming terminals and form a single common effect display screen, a plurality of display controllers controlling image display on the respective upper displays, and a center controller controlling the display controllers are provided. The center controller controls the display controllers so that the upper displays perform image display as one common effect display screen.

Gaming machine running common game

A plurality of gaming terminals each having a terminal display on which a plurality of symbols are provided, a plurality of upper displays forming a single common effect display screen which is constituted by gaming terminal areas corresponding to the respective gaming terminals, and a center controller are provided. When the common game starts, the center controller displays a common game start effect image on a common effect display screen and transmits a common game start effect image display command to the gaming terminals so that the common game start effect image divided for respective gaming terminal areas is displayed on the terminal display of each of the gaming terminals corresponding to the gaming terminal areas.

The gaming machine includes: a cabinet having a display window; one or more reels disposed in the cabinet so that the or each reel is visible from outside the cabinet through the display window, the or each of the one or more reels being provided with a reel band having symbols; and a light application device configured to apply visible light representing visual information which enables recognition of information related to games to the reel band. The or each of one or more reels has a mirror layer which reflects the visible light from the light application device. The light application device is disposed in an area outside the window frame of the display window so that the visible light is applied to the reel, on the side of the reel band.

When a trigger condition is established in a normal game, the following processes are executed: a process of shifting to a bonus game in which a re-trigger condition which is less stringent than the trigger condition may be established; and when the re-trigger condition is established in the bonus game, a process of adding another bonus game having a smaller benefit than the bonus game and executing the another bonus game.

In a gaming machine, a display displays a jackpot challenge for providing a progressive payout. A controller executes each round of a game, determines an event to be performed in each round, determines whether a determined event belongs to predetermined events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of icons, performs the determined event and determine a result of a performed event, obtains an icon of the performed event when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events and the result of the performed event is to award the icon of the performed event to a player, triggers the jackpot challenge when the plurality of icons are obtained, and executes the jackpot challenge to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player.

Gaming machine, gaming system, and gaming method

When a trigger condition is established in a normal game, a gaming machineexecutes a process of shifting to a bonus game in which a re-trigger condition which is less stringent than the trigger condition may be established, a process of executing a free game at least once in the bonus game, and a process of increasing the payout rate of the free game in the bonus game when the re-trigger condition is established in the bonus game.

Gaming machine and method for a bonus game with increasing payout rate

In a gaming machine, a display displays images of a free game. The controller executes a game, provides a plurality of free games when a result of the game satisfies a predetermined condition, determines at least one free game to a special mode from among the plurality of free game, and determine remaining free games to a base mode, rearranges a plurality of symbols to always appear at least one special symbol on the display in the free game of the special mode, rearranges the plurality of symbols to randomly determine whether to appear the special symbol on the display in the free game of the base mode, and provides a payout determined by a winning combination of symbols appeared on the display in each free game.

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Takehisa Itagaki