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US 2010/0304845 A1Published application
Gaming machine which determines whether common game start condition is met for each gaming terminal, and gaming method thereof
AssigneesUniversal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
InventorsShinji Ogino, Kazumasa Yoshizawa
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Abstract
A gaming machine: determines, for each slot machine 10, whether a common game start condition is met, based on an accumulated value relative to bet amount information transmitted from each slot machine 10 for each unit base game; and when the common game start condition is met at any one of the slot machines 10, executes a common game at each of the slot machines 10.
Claims7
A gaming machine comprising:
- a plurality of gaming terminals each having an input device capable of receiving an external input, and a terminal controller programmed to carry out steps (a1) to (a3) below in order to individually run a base game and to run a common game executed at the plurality of gaming terminals;
- and
- a center controller which is connected in communication with the gaming terminals, and is programmed to carryout steps (b1) to (b3) below in order to execute the common game communally run at the gaming terminals, wherein
- the terminal controllers each carry out the steps of:
- (a1) accepting a bet input through the input device;
- (a2) running a base game after a bet input has completed through the input device, and outputting base game information to the center controller for each unit base game;
- and
- (a3) running a common game in response to a game start command from the center controller, and
- wherein the center controller carries out the steps of:
- (b1) randomly setting a common game start condition;
- (b2) determining, for each gaming terminal, whether the common game start condition is met based on the base game information transmitted for each unit base game, the common game start condition set in (b1);
- and
- (b3) when the common game start condition is met, outputting the game start command to the gaming terminals.
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A gaming method of a gaming machine having:
- a plurality of gaming terminals each including an input device capable of receiving an external input, and a terminal controller for running a base game individually and running a common game executed at the plurality of gaming terminals;
- and a center controller which is connected in communication with the gaming terminals and which executes the common game run communally at the gaming terminals, the method comprising:
- the terminal controllers' each carrying out:
- a first step of accepting a bet input through the input device;
- a second step of running the base game after the bet input through the input device has been completed, and outputting base game information to the center controller for each unit base game;
- and
- a third step of running a common game in response to a game start command from the center controller, and
- the center controller's carrying out:
- a fourth step of randomly setting a common game start condition;
- a fifth step of determining, for each of the gaming terminals, whether the common game start condition set in the fourth step is met, based on base game information transmitted for each unit base game;
- and
- a sixth step of outputting, when the common game start condition is met, a game start command to the gaming terminals.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.