Display system at a game machine island

A system for displaying occurrence of an event at a game machine island having at least one game machine row comprising a plurality of game machines placed side by side, said display system comprising:

• a display having a display area in each game machine for displaying in the display area;
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• a display controller for controlling operation of said display,
• said display comprising a plurality of display units for displaying in a specified mode and drive circuits for driving the display units, said plurality of display units being disposed in said display area,
• said display controller comprising:
• event occurrence information read means for, when a signal indicating that any game machine in the game machine row is in a predetermined specific condition is input, reading information indicating a position of the game machine;
• means for distributing said plurality of display units into those positioned to the left, when facing the game machine row, and those positioned to the right, with a position corresponding to the position indicated by the information as reference;
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• means for controlling so as to cause said display units positioned to the left to display in a display mode representing directionality from the left end to the reference position and to cause said display units positioned to the right to display in a display mode representing directionality from the right end to the reference position.

A system for displaying occurrence of an event at a game machine island having at least one game machine row comprising a plurality of game machines placed side by side, each game machine comprising a display within which an area for playing games is displayed, said display system comprising:

• a display controller for, upon occurrence of some event for any game machine in the game machine row, for controlling so as to change a display mode of the displays of the game machines belonging to the game machine row accordingly,
• said display controller comprising:
• event occurrence information read means for reading event occurrence information indicating occurrence of an event for any game machine in the game machine row;
• means for distributing said plurality of game machines into those positioned to the left, when facing the game machine row, and those positioned to the right, with a position of the game machine indicated by the event occurrence information as reference;
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• control means for instructing the displays of the game machines positioned to the left to display in a display mode representing directionality from the left end to the reference position and instructing the displays of the game machines positioned to the right to display in a display mode representing directionality from the right end to the reference position,
• each of said game machines having a storage for storing image data for display in the game play display area in the display and background image data for display in a peripheral area outside the game play display area and display means for reading image data from said storage and displaying on the display,
• said display means displaying a background image on the display in response to an instruction from said control means.

A system for displaying occurrence of an event at a game machine island having at least one game machine row comprising a plurality of game machines placed side by side, each game machine comprising a display within which an area for playing games is displayed, said display system comprising:

• a dome display having a display area provided along the game machine row of the game machine island for displaying in the display area;
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• a display controller for, upon occurrence of some event for any game machine in the game machine row, controlling so as to change display modes of the displays of the game machines and said dome display belonging to the game machine row accordingly,
• said dome display comprising a plurality of display units for displaying in a specified mode and drive circuits for driving the display units, said plurality of display units being disposed in said display area, said display controller comprising:
• event occurrence information read means for reading event occurrence information indicating occurrence of an event for any game machine in the game machine row;
• means for distributing said plurality of game machines and display units into those positioned to the left, when facing the game machine row, and those positioned to the fight, with a position of the game machine indicated by the event occurrence information as, reference;
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• control means for instructing said game machines and said display units positioned to the left to display in a display mode representing directionality from the left end to the reference position and instructing those positioned to the right to display in a display mode representing directionality from the right end to the reference position,
• each of said game machines having a storage for storing image data for display in the game play display area in the display and background image data for display in a peripheral area outside the game play display area and display means for reading image data from said storage and displaying on the display, said display means displaying a background image on the display in response to an instruction from said control means.