SLOT MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD OF GAME

• US 20080064473A1
• Filed: 04/13/2007
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: Okada, Kazuo
• Application Number:
  US11/734,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20080064473A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means
• 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 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

A slot machine of the present invention comprises: a symbol display device capable of variably displaying a plurality of symbols; an image display device; and a controller, the controller programmed to execute the processing of: (A) executing a game in which the plurality of symbols are variably displayed and then stop-displayed to the symbol display device after game media are BET in number equal to or less than a previously set maximum number of BETs, and game media are paid out in number according to the plurality of symbols stop-displayed or a combination thereof; (B) shifting a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode on condition that a predetermined number of game media is inserted; (C) counting the number of games played after shifting to the insurance mode, in the insurance mode; (D) paying out a predetermined number of game media when the number of games counted in the processing (C) reaches a specific number; (E) displaying to the image display device a specific payment image showing that a payment based on the number of games reaching the specific number is being processed during a period when game media are paid out in the processing (D).

Claims

1. A slot machine comprising:

a symbol display device capable of variably displaying a plurality of symbols;

an image display device; and

a controller,

said controller programmed to execute the processing of;

(A) executing a game in which said plurality of symbols are variably displayed and then stop-displayed to said symbol display device after game media are BET in number equal to or less than a previously set maximum number of BETs, and game media are paid out in number according to said plurality of symbols stop-displayed or a combination thereof;

(B) shifting a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode on condition that a predetermined number of game media is inserted;

(C) counting the number of games played after shifting to said insurance mode, in said insurance mode;

(D) paying out a predetermined number of game media when the number of games counted in said processing (C) reaches a specific number; and

(E) displaying to said image display device a specific payment image showing that a payment based on the number of games reaching the specific number is being processed during a period when game media are paid out in said processing (D).

2. The slot machine according to claim 1,

wherein

said specific payment image includes an image showing the number of game media to be paid out.

3. The slot machine according to claim 1 or 2,

wherein

said controller is programmed to pay out game media in number according to said plurality of symbols stop-displayed or a combination thereof in said processing (A), after completion of the payout of game media in said processing (D) and the display of said specific payment image in said processing (E), when the number of games counted in said processing (C) reaches said specific number.

4. The slot machine according to any of claims 1 to 3,

wherein

said processing (C) includes

counting the number of games in which game media are BET in number equal to said maximum number of BETs after shifting to said insurance mode, in said insurance mode.

5. A game control method comprising the steps of:

(A) executing a game in which a plurality of symbols are variably displayed and then stop-displayed to a symbol display device capable of variably displaying said plurality of symbols after game media are BET in number equal to or less than a previously set maximum number of BETS, and game media are paid out in number according to said plurality of symbols stop-displayed or a combination thereof;

(B) shifting a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode on condition that a predetermined number of game media is inserted;

(C) counting the number of games played after shifting to said insurance mode, in said insurance mode;

(D) paying out a predetermined number of game media when the number of games counted in said step (C) reaches a specific number; and

(E) displaying to the image display device a specific payment image showing that a payment based on the number of games reaching the specific number is being processed during a period when game media are paid out in said step (D).