Systems and methods for playing an electronic game including a path based bonus game

An electronic gaming system comprising:

• a display;
• a player input interface;
• a credit input mechanism including at least one of a card reader, a ticket reader, a bill acceptor, and a coin input mechanism;
• a game controller;
• and
• a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the game controller, cause the game controller to at least:
• establish a wager balance in response to a receipt of a physical item representing a monetary value by the credit input mechanism;
• decrease the wager balance by a wager value and initiate a play of a primary game in response to receipt of a wager input via the player input interface;
• initiate a bonus game in response to an outcome of the primary game;
• display a multicolored path, the multicolored path including a plurality of locations, each location of the plurality of locations including one color of a first plurality of colors;
• display a multicolored wheel, the multicolored wheel including a plurality of stop positions, each stop position of the plurality of stop positions including one color of a second plurality of colors;
• simulate a spin of the multicolored wheel that includes a simulated spinning and stopping of the multicolored wheel with a pointer pointing to a first stop position of the plurality of stop positions, the first stop position including a first color of the second plurality of colors;
• and
• advance, in response to the simulated spin of the multicolored wheel, an animated character on the multicolored path from a first location to a second location on the multicolored path, wherein the second location is a next location on the multicolored path from the first location having a color that matches the first color.

A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, wherein when executed by a game controller having at least one processor coupled to at least one memory device, the computer-executable instructions cause the at least one game controller to:

• initiate, in response to a primary game outcome, a bonus game;
• display, in response to the initiating, a multicolored path, the multicolored path including a plurality of locations, each location of the plurality of locations including one color of a first plurality of colors;
• display a multicolored wheel, the multicolored wheel including a plurality of stop positions, each stop position of the plurality of stop positions including one color of a second plurality of colors;
• simulate a spin of the multicolored wheel that includes a simulated spinning and stopping of the multicolored wheel with a pointer pointing to a first stop position of the plurality of stop positions, the first stop position including a first color of the second plurality of colors;
• advance, in response to the simulated spin of the multicolored wheel, an animated character on the multicolored path from a first location to a second location on the multicolored path, wherein the second location is a next location on the multicolored path from the first location having a color that matches the first color.