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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2016
Universal Entertainment Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Susumu Mio, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Miyagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takehisa Itagaki, Tokyo, JP;
Yukihiro Kawakami, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Narita, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichi Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Bungo Matsumura, Tokyo, JP;
UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
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.