Universal Entertainment Corporation

Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takeshi Narita

Yukinori Inamura

Yuji Miyagawa

Hiroki Nakamura

Hiroshi Takahashi

Yoichi Kato

Hiromoto Yamauchi

Tetsuya Yokota

Bungo Matsumura

Kazuo Okada

Kenta Kitamura

Masumi Fujisawa

Takehisa Itagaki

Nakayasu Tsukahara

Susumu Mio

Taiji Watanabe

Shinichi Kawashima

Yukihiro Kawakami

Takuto Nakayama

Atsuya Takano

Erika Turchi

Toshihiko Honda

Keisuke Kajino

Keiichi Kojima

A gaming machine that is capable of providing information relevant to a winning combination to a player before spinning of a respective one of reels stops in a unit game is provided. When the player's operation is made, in the case where the predetermined symbol is displayed in the effect reel display region, symbol arrays of the effect reels are scrolled in an upward direction or in a downward direction and then the predetermined symbol is displayed at the to-be-stopped position, or alternatively, in the case where the predetermined symbol is not displayed, scrolling is controlled so that a symbol displayed immediately after the above situation is replaced with the predetermined symbol and then the predetermined symbol appears from an upper part of the effect reel display region, and stops at the to-be-stopped position.

Gaming machine capable of repeatedly executing a unit game

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

Probability of prize occurrence is easily controlled without provision of a blank between symbols on a reel. A gaming machine comprises: a lower image display panel configured to variably display a plurality of symbol arrays with a plurality of symbols including normal symbols and specific symbols more advantageous than the normal symbols, and then display a game result by rearranging the symbols in a symbol display region containing a matrix of cells; bet buttons capable of receiving a bet; and a controller configured to run a normal game which rearranges symbols on the symbol display device on condition that a bet is placed, the controller is configured to modify the symbols arrayed in the plurality of symbol arrays, so that the ratios of the specific symbols to the total number of the symbols in all the symbol arrays increases with an increase in the bet amount.

Gaming machine

A gaming machine achieves a new entertainment characteristic by adding a new characteristic to selection of a bonus type. A gaming machine comprises: a lower image display panel configured to display selectable images in a bonus game which is triggered in a normal game, wherein the selectable images are changed to any one of bonus rank images corresponding to bonus types every time selection is made; a control panel enabling selection of one of the selectable images; and a controller configured to control the display panel so that only the number of the bonus rank images corresponding to the bonus determined in advance in the bonus game reaches a predetermined number, wherein the controller displays a bonus rank image corresponding to a high rank bonus type out of bonus types, before the number of the bonus rank images corresponding to the bonus determined in advance reaches the predetermined number.

A slot machineexecutes the following processes of: (D1) receiving an input of betting of a game medium, (D2) reading, from a RAM, coin reels corresponding to the number of game media having been received in the process (D1) and setting the coin reels to be rearrangeable on the lower image display panel, (D3) as a game, randomly determining symbols and a coinwhich are to be rearranged on the lower image display panel, (D4) executing an effect of scrolling the video reelsand the coin reels and visually changing the coinduring the scroll, and (D5) rearranging the symbols and the coindetermined in the process (D3) on the lower image display paneland awarding a benefit or a special bonus based on a combination of the rearranged symbols and coin

Gaming machine executing game capable of awarding special bonus and method of controlling gaming machine

On the slot machine, a slot game including a base game and free games is caused to proceed on a display. On the base game reel strips, on all of a plurality of reels, symbols whose each kind is the same, other than feature symbols and wild symbols, are arranged in succession. On the free game reel strips, on all of a plurality of reels, symbols whose each kind is the same, other than the feature symbols and the wild symbols, are arranged in succession and in addition thereto, only in a case of top symbols whose payout multiplying factor is the highest, the top symbols whose number is larger than a number of top symbols displayed on the base game reel strips are arranged in succession.

Slot machine including a plurality of video reel strips

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Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Narita