GAMING MACHINE AWARDING PLURAL TYPES OF PROGRESSIVE PAYOUTS WHICH ARE DIFFERENT IN PAYOUT AMOUNTS AND IN EACH OF WHICH PART OF BET AMOUNT IS ACCUMULATED EACH TIME UNIT GAME IS EXECUTED
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A gaming machine, which is configured to award, as a prize, one of plural types of progressive payouts which are different from one another in payout amount and are formed by accumulating a part of a bet amount each time a unit game is executed, includes a display device and a controller. The controller executes the processes of: (A) executing a normal game in which the symbols are rearranged on the display device and a prize is awarded in accordance with a combination of the rearranged symbols; (B) randomly selecting one of the plural types of progressive payouts; and (C) after the number of the specific symbol stored in association with the progressive payout selected in the process (B) is displayed stepwise on the display device, executing the selected progressive payout.
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Patent Owner(s)
Patent Owner | Address | |
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ARUZE GAMING AMERICA INC | 745 GRIER DRIVE LAS VEGAS NV 89119 | |
UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION | ARIAKE FRONTIER BUILDING TOWER A 3-7-26 ARIAKE KOTO-KU TOKYO 135-0063 |
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Inventor Name | Address | # of filed Patents | Total Citations |
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ENOKIDO, Kenji | Tokyo, JP | 43 | 124 |
# of filed Patents : 43 Total Citations : 124 | |||
KITAMURA, Kenta | Tokyo, JP | 126 | 631 |
# of filed Patents : 126 Total Citations : 631 | |||
NARITA, Takaki | Tokyo, JP | 10 | 90 |
# of filed Patents : 10 Total Citations : 90 | |||
TERANISHI, Tetsuya | Tokyo, JP | 1 | 1 |
# of filed Patents : 1 Total Citations : 1 |
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