Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

Universal Entertainment Corporation

Yuji Miyagawa

Takehisa Itagaki

Takeshi Narita

Yoichi Kato

Masahiro Yoshida

Yukinori Inamura

Naoki Terada

Kenichi Fujimori

Yukihiro Kawakami

Hiroki Nakamura

Kazuo Okada

Hiroshi Takahashi

Hiromoto Yamauchi

Susumu Mio

Tetsuya Yokota

Takuto Nakayama

Bungo Matsumura

Erika Turchi

Toshihiko Honda

Keisuke Kajino

Keiichi Kojima

Atsuya Takano

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

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.

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. 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.

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

A slot machinetransmits a game information requesting command when being booted. An external controller, when receiving the game information requesting command, transmits common game information stored in a RAM, which information for use in running a common game, to the slot machine. The slot machineruns the common game based on the common game information received from the external controller

Gaming machine capable of running common game, and communication control method thereof

A gaming machine of the present invention comprises: a ticket reader; and a controller, the controller programmed to execute the processing of (a) executing a game played against an other gaming machine, when the ticket reader has read a ticket issued from a ticket issuing terminal.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuji Miyagawa