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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1995
Kazuo Okada, Tokyo, JP;
Universal Sales Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A gaming machine comprises a variable display device for variably displaying a plurality of display patterns so as to give a predetermined play value according to the display pattern at the time when variable displays stop, and control unit for driving the variable display device, executing a winning determination and controlling the variable displays of the variable display device to stop so as to be the display patterns of winning or losing according to a result of the determination, when a predetermined play condition is satisfied. The control unit executes desired times of plays when the determination results in a particular winning, and controls the variable displays of the variable display device to stop such that predetermined display patterns are displayed as results of the desired times of plays. Then, the control unit controls the variable displays of the variable display device to stop such that a winning pattern which the player can distinguish as the particular winning is displayed.