Gaming machine, game control method and game system

• US 20070060278A1
• Filed: 11/01/2005
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technological Group Limited
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/)
• Inventors: Okada, Kazuo
• Granted Patent: US 8,105,154 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/17
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3267 Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games

Abstract

A gaming machine of the present invention comprises winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery; means for generating a first special game state which is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination; means for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game media is paid out when the number of games accumulatively counted each time a game is played reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with the number of games; and means for selecting a payout mode of the game medium in said second special game state from plural kinds of predetermined payout modes.

Claims

1. A gaming machine comprising:

winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery;

means for generating a first special game state which is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination;

means for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game media is paid out when the number of games accumulatively counted each time a game is played reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with the number of games; and

means for selecting a payout mode of the game medium in said second special game state from plural kinds of predetermined payout modes.

6. The gaming machine according to claim 1,

wherein

reception means that can accept for one game an insertion of game media up to a predetermined upper limit value is provided, and said means for generating said second special game state generates a second special game state in a case where the number of inserted game media for the game played by the player is equal to said upper limit when said number of games reaches said set value.

2. A gaming machine comprising:

winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery;

means for generating a first special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination; and

means for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game medium is paid out in a case where the predetermined number of the first special game state is not generated until the number of games accumulatively counted each time a game is played reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with the number of games.

3. A gaming machine comprising:

winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery;

means for generating a first special game state which is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination;

means for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game medium is paid out in a case where the predetermined number of the first special game state is not generated until the number of games accumulatively counted each time a game is played reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with the number of games; and

means for selecting a payout mode of the game medium in the second special game state from plural kinds of predetermined payout modes.

4. A gaming machine connected to a control device which accumulatively counts the number of games in for every gaming machine of a plurality of gaming machines through a communication line, comprising:

winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery;

means for generating a first special game state which is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination;

means for transmitting an identification information of the gaming machine to said control device through said communication line each time a game is played;

means for receiving a command signal transmitted from said control device when the number of games accumulatively counted by the control device based on said identification information of the gaming machine reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with said number of games;

means for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game medium is paid out based on said command signal; and

means for selecting a payout mode of the game medium in said second special game state from plural kinds of predetermined payout modes.

5. A gaming machine comprising:

winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery;

means for generating a first special game state which is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination;

means for accumulatively counting the number of games each time a game is played;

means for determining whether or not said number of games has reached a set value that is an object of comparison with said number of games;

means for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game medium is paid out when said number of games is determined to have reached said set value; and

means for selecting a payout mode of the game medium in said second special game state from plural kinds of predetermined payout modes.

7. A gaming machine equipped with a processing device and a storage device,

wherein

said processing device executes:

a processing determining one winning combination selected from plural kinds of winning combinations determined in advance by executing a lottery program stored in said storage device;

a processing reading from said storage device a first program for generating a first special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination, and executing said first program;

a processing reading from the storage device a second program for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game media is paid out when the number of games accumulatively counted each time a game is played reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with said number of games, and executing said second program; and

a processing selecting the second program for reading from the storage device and executing, from a plurality of second programs in which the payout modes of the game media is different.

11. The gaming machine according to claim 7,

wherein

said processing device executes a second program for generating said second special game state in a case where the number of inserted game media for the game played a player is predetermined upper limit value of the number of game media to be inserted for one game when said number of games reaches said set value.

8. A gaming machine equipped with a processing device and a storage device,

wherein

said processing device executes:

a processing determining one winning combination selected from plural kinds of winning combinations determined in advance by executing a lottery program stored in said storage device;

a processing reading from said storage device a first program for generating a first special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination, and executing said first program;

a processing reading from said storage device a second program for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game media is paid out in a case where the predetermined number of the first special game state is not generated until the number of games accumulatively counted each time a game is played reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with the number of games, and executing said second program; and

a processing selecting the second program for reading from said storage device and executing, from a plurality of second programs in which the payout modes of the game media is different.

9. A gaming machine equipped with a processing device and a storage device, and connected through a communication line to a control device which counts the number of games accumulatively for every gaming machine of plural gaming machines,

wherein

said processing device executes:

a processing determining one winning combination selected from plural kinds of winning combinations determined in advance by executing a lottery program stored in said storage device;

a processing reading from said storage device a first program for generating a first special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination, and executing said first program;

a processing transmitting an identification information on a gaming machine stored in said storage device to said control device through said communication line each time a game is played;

a processing receiving a command signal transmitted from said control device when said number of games counted accumulatively by said control device based on said identification information on the gaming machine reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with said number of games;

a processing reading from the storage device based on said command signal a second program for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game media is paid out, and executing said second program; and

a processing selecting the second program for reading from said storage device and executing, from plural kinds of second programs in which the payout modes of the game media is different.

10. A gaming machine equipped with a processing device and a storage device,

wherein

said processing device executes:

a processing determining one winning combination selected from plural kinds of winning combinations determined in advance by executing a lottery program stored in said storage device;

a processing reading from said storage device a first program for generating a first special state that is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination, and executing said first program;

a processing counting the number of games accumulatively each time a game is played;

a processing determining whether or not said number of games has reached said set value that is an object of comparison with said number of games;

a processing reading from the storage device a second program for generating a second special game state in which the predetermined number of game media is paid out when said number of games is determined to have reached said set value, and executing said second program; and

a processing selecting the second program for reading from said storage device and executing, from plural kinds of second programs in which the payout modes of the game media is different.

12. A gaming machine comprising:

means for paying out to the player the number of game media corresponding to the number of games played by a player; and

means for selecting a payout mode of the number of game media corresponding to said number of games from plural kinds of predetermined payout modes.

13. A game control method comprising:

a step of paying out to the player the number of game media corresponding to the number of games played by a player; and

a step of selecting a payout mode of the number of game media corresponding to said number of games from plural kinds of predetermined payout modes.

14. A control system equipped with a gaming machine and a control device,

wherein

said control device includes:

means for transmitting a signal to said gaming machine according to said number of games played by a player in said gaming machine, and

said gaming machine includes;

means for paying out the number of game media corresponding to said number of games to the player based on said signal received from said control device; and

means for selecting a payout mode of the number of game media corresponding to said number of games from plural kinds of predetermined payout modes.