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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2015
Universal Entertainment Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Takehisa Itagaki, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Miyagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yukihiro Kawakami, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
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.