Universal Entertainment Corporation

Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

Aruze Gaming (hong Kong) Limited

Yukihiro Kawakami

Takehisa Itagaki

Yoichi Kato

Hiromoto Yamauchi

Masahiro Yoshida

Masumi Fujisawa

Yuji Miyagawa

Hiroki Nakamura

Hiroshi Takahashi

Yukinori Inamura

Susumu Mio

Toshitaka Suzuki

Takeshi Narita

Bungo Matsumura

Hideko Aoki

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 which makes it possible to improve monotonous game play is provided. A gaming machine includes: a display device configured to display a game result by rearranging symbols arranged on video reels; a storage device configured to store a normal mode video reel on which the symbols including a predetermined symbol are arranged and a chance mode video reel on which the number of the predetermined symbol is larger than the number of the predetermined symbol on the normal mode video reel; and a controller configured to perform switching between a game in a normal mode using the normal mode video reel and a game in a chance mode using the chance mode video reel, when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Random determination for switching to a chance mode using a chance mode video reel

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.

Gaming machine

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

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

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Tokyo, Japan

Yukihiro Kawakami