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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Haruo Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Eagle Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
463 20 ;
Abstract
A slot machine is provided with a plurality of motors each arranged for rotating a respective one of a plurality of reels. A first drive device starts driving the motors in response to a start signal, and stops driving the motors in accordance with stop signals sequentially generated for respective ones of the motors. A second drive device is provided for driving a part of the motors when it is determined that there is at least an effective winning symbol combination, to rotate those ones of the reels which stop with symbols of the obtained winning symbol combination, again in a special fashion to make an appeal to the winner.