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GAME SERVER, GAME MACHINE, AND GAME CONTROL METHOD

  • US 20080293496A1
  • Filed: 07/31/2008
  • Published: 11/27/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A game server for collectively controlling plural game machines, each of which is brought into a status enabling to start a game based on throwing of coins or a given credit number and executes payout based on a result of the game, said game server comprising:

  • means for determining a cumulative credit consumption based on information of a credit consumption in a first game machine with which a first player is performing a game and, when said cumulative credit consumption reaches a predetermined upper limit as a result of the determination, causing said game machine to execute a payout return based on a predetermined return rate or to execute a return lottery to determine whether the payout return should be executed so as to execute the payout return based on the predetermined return rate according to a lottery result; and

    means for sending said game machine a signal for causing a change in said predetermined upper limit.

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