Game system generating second game according to game result of a device and allowing other devices to participate in second game thus generated

• US 8,128,484 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2010
• Issued: 03/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interblock DOO
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/)
• Inventors: Okada, Kazuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Laneau, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US12/768,233
• Publication Number:
  US 20100210337A1
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• Field of Search: 463 16- 25
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament

Abstract

A game system for playing a basic game, includes: slot machines which, when a combination of “BONUS” symbols stop in a winning line, transmit a signal for switching to a roulette game; a second game device, separate from the slot machines, which executes a second game; and a display for displaying an image corresponding to game status of the second game device. In cases in which the switching signal has been transmitted from any one of the slot machines, other slot machines enter a mode that allows the players at the other slot machines to participate in the second game. Furthermore, the game system includes a central controller which can communicate with the slot machines, the second game device, and the display, and which, upon reception of the switching signal from the slot machine, transmits a roulette game start signal to start the roulette game in the second game device.

Claims

1. A game system comprising:

(a) a plurality of devices that each independently executes a basic game program to perform a basic game and, when a predetermined condition in the basic game is satisfied, transmits to a center controller a signal for switching to a second game;

(b) a second game device that is separate from the devices, and executes a second game program to perform the second game; and

(c) a center controller that, when a signal for switching to the second game is received from a device among the plurality of devices, enables other devices different from the device having transmitted the signal to participate in the second game, and causes the second game to start in the second game device.

2. A game system according to claim 1, wherein the center controller is configured to execute processing of:

receiving, from the device and the other devices, bet information relating to a game result of the second game before the game result is displayed; and

displaying a single game result of a second game executed by the center controller (c), executing calculation of a payout amount according to the single game result and a previous bet on a game result of the device and the other devices, and outputting credit data corresponding to the payout amount of the result of the calculation.

3. A game system according to claim 1, wherein the center controller is configured to execute processing of:

receiving, from the other devices, bet information relating to win-loss of the second game of the device executed mainly by the device; and

determining a payout amount for the other devices based on win-loss of the device in a second game executed by the center controller (c).

4. A game system according to claim 1, comprising memory that stores a payout table that is configured so that, among a plurality of type of bet methods that respectively correspond to a plurality of types of payout rates in the second game, a number of types of bet methods allowed at the device and a number of types of bet methods allowed at the other devices are different,

wherein the center controller is configured to execute processing of:

receiving, from the device and the other devices, bet information relating to a game result of the second game before the game result is displayed; and

displaying a single game result of a second game executed by the center controller (c), executing calculation of a payout amount according to the single game result and the payout rate according to a previous bet on a game result of the device and the other devices, and outputting credit data corresponding to the payout amount of the result of the calculation.

5. A game system according to claim 1, wherein the other devices are configured to execute processing of:

suspending the basic game after participation in the second game is allowed;

determining whether to participate in the second game according to an operation of a player at the other devices; and

cancelling suspending of the basic game, in a case of determining not to participate in the second game.

6. A game system according to claim 1, wherein the second game is any game among a roulette game, poker game, and quiz game.

7. A game system according to claim 1, wherein the device executing the basic game is a slot machine.

8. A game system comprising:

(d) at least one first device that executes a basic game;

(e) a second game device that, in a case of a predetermined condition in the basic game performed by the first device being satisfied, executes a second game on the second game device and on at least one third device that is different from the second device; and

(f) a controller that determines a game result of the at least one third device based on a win-loss condition of the second game.

9. A game system according to claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to execute processing of:

receiving, from the at least one third device, information of a bet that has been wagered based on the win-loss condition of the second game;

displaying the game result of the second game,

calculating a payout amount according to the bet of the at least one third device based on the win-loss condition of the second game, and

outputting credit data corresponding to the calculated payout amount.

10. A game system according to claim 8, wherein the second game is any game among a roulette game, a poker game, and a quiz game.

11. A game system according to claim 8, wherein the at least one first device executing the basic game is a slot machine.