Video pachinko on a video platform as a gaming device
AssigneeIgt
InventorWilliam J. Brosnan
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Abstract
A disclosed gaming machine presents pachinko games to a player playing the gaming machine. In some embodiments, a player may initiate a new pachinko game on the gaming machine while the outcome of a previous pachinko game is being presented to the player. The wagers on each game may be different. Also, a player may input parameters into the gaming machine that affect the game outcome presentation. For a number of different games, two or more game outcomes may be presented simultaneously to the player on the gaming machine. However, the game outcomes determined by the gaming machine are independent of one another and do not depend on the game outcome presentation. Normally, the game outcomes are determined using a random number generator and a pay table stored in a memory on the gaming machine.
Claims15
A method of playing a game sequence on a gaming machine, the method comprising:
- under control of a master gaming controller on the gaming machine, receiving a first input signal to select two or more balls in the game sequence;
- under control of the master gaming controller, for each ball, receiving a second input signal indicating a wager amount for a video pachinko game of chance represented by each ball;
- under control of the master gaming controller, determining an independent game outcome for each video pachinko game of chance represented wherein each ball corresponds to one video pachinko game of chance;
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- under control of the master gaming controller, displaying a game outcome for each of the balls in the game sequence on a video display screen wherein the gaming machine is operable to display simultaneously two or more of the balls in the game sequence.
A method of playing a game sequence on a gaming machine, the method comprising:
- under control of a master gaming controller on the gaming machine, receiving a first input signal to select a number of balls in the game sequence;
- under control of the master gaming controller, receiving a second input signal indicating a first wager amount for the game sequence;
- under control of the master gaming controller, determining a second wager amount for each ball by dividing the first wager amount by the number of balls in the game sequence;
- under control of the master gaming controller, determining an independent game outcome for each the game of chance represented by each ball and the second the second wager amount;
- under control of the master gaming controller, displaying a game outcome for each of the balls in the game sequence on a video display screen wherein the gaming machine is operable to display simultaneously two or more of the balls in the game sequence.
A method of generating a pachinko game of chance on a gaming machine, the method comprising:
- under control of a master gaming controller on the gaming machine, displaying on a touch screen display a ball reservoir wherein the ball reservoir comprises one or more balls and wherein the master gaming controller is operable to display two or more balls that are different from one another in the to ball reservoir, wherein the two or more balls are different from one another in a wager amount that each of the balls represents;
- under control of the master gaming controller, receiving a first input signal from the touch screen display wherein the first input signal is for indicating a selection of at least one ball in the ball reservoir;
- under control of the master gaming controller, determining a game outcome for the pachinko game of chance;
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- under control of the master gaming controller, displaying on a video display a presentation of the game outcome determined for the pachinko game of chance wherein the presentation comprises the ball selected from the ball reservoir moving through a pachinko game layout.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.