Gaming machine with reel window

• US 20050192084A1
• Filed: 02/25/2005
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sg Gaming, Inc. (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: Iwamoto, Hideaki
• Application Number:
  US11/065,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20050192084A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means

Abstract

A slot machine comprising: an image display device, which performs a high demonstration effect, is provided. The slot machine 1 is provided with a main display 4 in front of reels 22L, 22C, 22R. The main display 4 is provided with display windows 23, 24, 25 through which it is possible to transmissively recognize modes of variable display control and stop control of the reels 23, 24, 25 visually. By having a display image control means which controls an effect image on the main display 4 in conjunction with the variable display control and stop control of the reels 22L, 22C, 22R, the display image control means is configured to be able to make the display windows 23, 24, 25 invisible in accordance with the effect image movement. Therefore, a game effect may be displayed on the main display 4, which causes united feeling with the variable display control and stop control of the mechanical reels 22L, 22C, 22R.

Claims

1. A gaming machine comprising:

reels having a plurality of symbols necessary for a game drawn on respective peripheral surfaces;

appearing symbol determination means for determining symbols which are stopped to appear on a predetermined position, out of the plurality of symbols;

reel control means which carries out variable display control for displaying variably the plurality of symbols by spinning the reels, and stop control for stopping the symbols on a basis of a determination result by the appearing symbol determination means and for displaying the symbols positioned on the predetermined position,

effect control means for controlling an image effect relating to the game; and

effect display means for displaying the image effect, the effect display means comprising;

display windows which are disposed in front of the reels and capable of showing variable display of the plurality of symbols and transmissive display of the symbols, at least one of the display windows being capable of becoming unrecognizable with the image effect displayed thereon by control of the effect control means,

wherein the effect control means controls the image effect which visually relating to the stop control that is carried out by the reel control means, in response to determination of the appearing symbol determination means, to display the image effect on the effect display means, and

wherein the display windows being capable of transmissively displaying the symbols after the stop control in visual association with the image effect when the symbols are in a predetermined symbol arrangement determined by the appearing symbol determination means.

2. The gaming machine according to claim 1,

wherein the reel control means carries out the stop control to the plurality of reels in a predetermined order, and

wherein a last reel to which the stop control is performed has a predetermined specific symbol that becomes a trigger for a bonus game, the bonus game being more favorable to a player than the game being played before the bonus game, and

wherein the predetermined specific symbol is stop-controlled on a predetermined position by the reel control means such that the bonus game is triggered.

3. The gaming machine according to claim 1,

wherein the reels and the display windows are corresponding to each other,

wherein all display windows other than a last display window to which the stop control is carried out are capable of becoming unrecognizable with the image effect displayed thereon.

4. A gaming machine, with which a player is capable of playing a base game and a bonus game that is more favorable to the player than the base game, comprising:

a plurality of reels having a plurality of symbols drawn on respective peripheral surfaces thereof;

a display window being capable of transmissively displaying at least one of the plurality of symbols of each reel;

a first display including the display window; and

a control device for performing variable display and stop control of the plurality of symbols on the respective plurality of reels;

wherein;

in the base game, the bonus game is triggered when at least one reel of the plurality of reels is stopped at a predetermined position so as to display a predetermined specific symbol; and

the first display is capable of displaying an image effect thereon so as to prevent at least one symbol from being transmissively displayed in the corresponding display window.

5. The gaming machine according to claim 4, wherein the first display is provided with a panel being disposed in front of the display windows and is of an approximately same size as a display section of the first display, and wherein the image effect is shown on the panel.

6. The gaming machine according to claim 4, wherein in the bonus game, after a predetermined number of rounds having been repeated, where one round is a unit of repetition, a bonus game completion prediction lottery is carried out, and on a basis of a result of the bonus game completion prediction lottery, a condition of the gaming machine is controlled to shift from the bonus game to the base game.