Gaming Device Giving Player Choice Of Game And Playing Method Thereof

Abstract

A gaming device includes a plurality of different games, a microphone, and a speaker. The gaming device requests a player to select a game other than one running, and runs a player-selected game. During a game, a voice related to the game to be run is output from the speaker, based on an input to the microphone.

1 . A gaming device comprising:
 a game memory which stores therein a plurality of different games;   a speaker which outputs a voice related to the games;   a microphone which receives a voice externally input;   a plurality of terminal devices which runs therein a game;   a game selecting device which requests a player to select, from the plurality of games, a game to be run in a player-intended terminal device amongst the terminal devices; and   a controller which is programmed to perform the processes of:   (a1) determining if a game is running and what game is running in each of the terminal devices;   (a2) requesting the player to select, through the player-intended terminal device, a game other than one running in the terminal device, based on a result (a1);   (a3) causing the player-intended terminal device to run the game selected;   (a4) outputting from the speaker a voice related to the game to be run in the player-intended terminal device, based on an input to the microphone, information stored in the game memory, and a game running-status.   
   
   
       2 . A gaming device comprising:
 a game memory which stores therein a plurality of different games;   a plurality of terminal devices which runs therein a game, wherein each of the terminal devices has a speaker which outputs a voice related to the games and a microphone which receives a voice externally input;   a game selecting device which requests a player to select, from the plurality of games, a game to be run in a player-intended terminal device amongst the terminal devices;   a terminal position memory which stores a position of each of the terminal devices; and   a controller which is programmed to perform the processes of:   (b1) determining if a game is running and what game is running in each of the terminal devices;   (b2) based on a result of (b1), requesting the player to select, through the game selecting device, games other than one running in a terminal device located within a predetermined distance from the player-intended terminal device;   (b3) causing the player-intended terminal device to run the game selected;   (b4) outputting from the speaker a voice related to the game to be run in the player-intended terminal device, based on an input to the microphone, information stored in the game memory, and a game running-status.   
   
   
       3 . A gaming device comprising:
 a game memory which stores therein a plurality of different games;   a plurality of terminal devices which runs therein a game, wherein each of the terminal devices has a speaker which outputs a voice related to the games and a microphone which receives a voice externally input;   a game selecting device which requests a player to select, from the plurality of games, a game to be run in a player-intended terminal device amongst the terminal devices; and   a controller which is programmed to perform the processes of:   (c1) based on an input to the microphone and information stored in the game memory, determining if a game is running and what game is running in a terminal device located within a voice-reachable distance;   (c2) requesting the player to select through the game selecting device a game other than one running in a terminal device located within the voice-reachable distance, based on the game running-status determined;   (c3) causing the player-intended terminal device to run the game selected;   (c4) outputting from the speaker a voice related to the game to be run in the player-intended terminal device, based on an input to the microphone, information stored in the game memory, and a game running-status.   
   
   
       4 . A gaming device comprising:
 a game memory which stores therein a plurality of different games;   a speaker which outputs a voice related to the games;   a microphone which receives a voice externally input;   a game selecting device which requests the player to select a game to be run from the plurality of the games; and   a controller which is programmed to perform the processes of:   (d1) determining if a game is running and what game is running in another gaming device located within a voice-reachable distance, based on an input to the microphone and information stored in the game memory;   (d2) based on the game running-status determined, requesting the player to select, through the game selecting device, a game other than one running in the other gaming device located within the voice-reachable distance;   (d3) running the player-selected game;   (d4) causing the speaker to output a voice related to the game to be run, based on an input to the microphone, information stored in the game memory, and the game running-status.   
   
   
       5 . A playing method of a gaming device by which games are run in a plurality of terminal devices,
 the method comprising the steps of:   (e1) determining if a game is running and what game is running in each of the terminal devices;   (e2) requesting the player to select, through a player-intended terminal device, a game other than one running in the terminal device, based on a result of (e1);   (e3) running the player-selected game in the player-intended terminal devices;   (e4) based on an input to the microphone, outputting from the speaker a voice related to the game to be run in the player-intended terminal device.