US2005170879A1PendingUtilityA1

Gaming machine

Assignee: ARUZE CORPPriority: Jan 29, 2004Filed: Jan 27, 2005Published: Aug 4, 2005
Est. expiryJan 29, 2024(expired)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
G07F 17/3244G07F 17/34
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Abstract

It is disclosed a gaming machine comprising: a display device with a first display area and a second display area; a first game controller for executing a first game in which symbols are scrolled in each of plural rows on the first display area and a game result is determined corresponding to the symbol or a symbol combination stopped and displayed on the first display area; a first determination device for determining whether or not a predetermined symbol is included in the symbols stopped and displayed in the first game; a second game controller for executing a second game in which the symbols are scrolled in each of plural rows on the first display area when the first determination device determines that the predetermined symbol is included in the symbols stopped and displayed in the first game; and a payout device for paying out a game medium corresponding to a game result in the first game or the second game; wherein the second game controller controls the display device so that a specific symbol characterizing the second game is displayed on the second display area and controls the payout device to pay out the game medium when any one of the symbols stopped and displayed on the first display area in the second game coincides with the specific symbol.

Claims

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1 . A gaming machine comprising: 
 a display device with a first display area and a second display area;    a first game controller for executing a first game in which symbols are scrolled in each of plural rows on the first display area and a game result is determined corresponding to the symbol or a symbol combination stopped and displayed on the first display area;    a first determination device for determining whether or not a predetermined symbol is included in the symbols stopped and displayed in the first game;    a second game controller for executing a second game in which the symbols are scrolled in each of plural rows on the first display area when the first determination device determines that the predetermined symbol is included in the symbols stopped and displayed in the first game; and    a payout device for paying out a game medium corresponding to a game result in the first game or the second game;    wherein the second game controller controls the display device so that a specific symbol characterizing the second game is displayed on the second display area and controls the payout device to pay out the game medium when any one of the symbols stopped and displayed on the first display area in the second game coincides with the specific symbol.    
   
   
       2 . The gaming machine according to  claim 1 , further comprising: 
 a second determination device for determining a number of kind of the specific symbol displayed on the second display area in the second game corresponding to a number of the predetermined symbol included in the symbols stopped and displayed on the first display area in the first game.    
   
   
       3 . The gaming machine according to  claim 2 , wherein the number of kind of the specific symbol increases according that the number of the predetermined symbol increases.  
   
   
       4 . The gaming machine according to  claim 3 , wherein a probability that any one of the symbols stopped and displayed in the second game coincides with the specific symbol increases according that the number of kind of the specific symbol increases.  
   
   
       5 . The gaming machine according to  claim 2 , further comprising: 
 a lottery device for conducting a lottery to extract a random number when the number of kind of the specific symbol is determined;    wherein the second determination device determines the number of kind of the specific symbol based on the number of the predetermined symbol stopped and displayed in the first game and the random number extracted by the lottery device.    
   
   
       6 . The gaming machine according to  claim 2 , further comprising: 
 a count device for counting a number of the game medium betted in the first game;    wherein the second determination device determines the number of kind of the specific symbol based on the number of the predetermined symbol stopped and displayed in the first game and the number of the game medium counted by the count device.    
   
   
       7 . The gaming machine according to  claim 1 , wherein the display device includes a display on which a plurality of reels each of which has the symbols are displayed so that the reels are rotated and the symbols are scrolled.  
   
   
       8 . The gaming machine according to  claim 1 , wherein the display device includes a plurality of reels on each of which the symbols are formed, the reels being rotatably supported, and 
 wherein the symbols are scrolled by rotating the reels.

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