EP1560175A3 - Gaming machine - Google Patents

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EP1560175A3
EP1560175A3 EP05001007A EP05001007A EP1560175A3 EP 1560175 A3 EP1560175 A3 EP 1560175A3 EP 05001007 A EP05001007 A EP 05001007A EP 05001007 A EP05001007 A EP 05001007A EP 1560175 A3 EP1560175 A3 EP 1560175A3
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Prior art keywords
game
display area
displayed
symbol
symbols
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EP05001007A
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German (de)
French (fr)
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EP1560175A2 (en
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Motoaki Tachikawa
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Universal Entertainment Corp
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Aruze Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/34—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3244—Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

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.
EP05001007A 2004-01-29 2005-01-19 Gaming machine Ceased EP1560175A3 (en)

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JP2004022229 2004-01-29
JP2004022229A JP2005211341A (en) 2004-01-29 2004-01-29 Game machine

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EP1560175A2 EP1560175A2 (en) 2005-08-03
EP1560175A3 true EP1560175A3 (en) 2005-10-26

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US (1) US20050170879A1 (en)
EP (1) EP1560175A3 (en)
JP (1) JP2005211341A (en)
CN (1) CN1647843A (en)
AU (1) AU2005200347B2 (en)
EA (1) EA007527B1 (en)
ZA (1) ZA200500692B (en)

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US20020037764A1 (en) * 2000-08-03 2002-03-28 Peter Anderson Gaming machine with sorting feature
US6347996B1 (en) * 2000-09-12 2002-02-19 Wms Gaming Inc. Gaming machine with concealed image bonus feature
US20030064802A1 (en) * 2001-09-28 2003-04-03 Paulina Rodgers Gaming device having symbols with transformation probabilities
US20030073483A1 (en) * 2001-10-15 2003-04-17 Paulina Glavich Gaming device having a re-triggering symbol bonus scheme with a bonus symbol accumulator

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EA200500117A1 (en) 2005-08-25
CN1647843A (en) 2005-08-03
AU2005200347A1 (en) 2005-08-18
EP1560175A2 (en) 2005-08-03
US20050170879A1 (en) 2005-08-04
EA007527B1 (en) 2006-10-27
AU2005200347B2 (en) 2011-06-09
JP2005211341A (en) 2005-08-11
ZA200500692B (en) 2005-09-28

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