Gaming machine of the type wherein a large number of players participate in game
A gaming machine includes: a plurality of game terminals each including an operation section for accepting operation of a player, an acceptance unit for accepting game medium, and an image display unit for displaying a predetermined image; a plurality of cumulative storage units for storing a predetermined value of the game medium; a game control unit for controlling a game based on a base game or a bonus game; a first lottery unit for performing a lottery as to whether or not the bonus game is generated for each of the plurality of game terminals; a second lottery unit for performing a lottery as to whether or not game medium are paid out for each game terminal when the bonus game is generated; and a cumulative game medium payout unit for paying out the game medium to the determined game terminal.
1. A gaming machine of the type wherein a large number of players participate in a game, the gaming machine comprising:
a plurality of game terminals each including an operation section accepting operation of a player, an acceptance unit accepting game medium, and an image display unit displaying a predetermined image;
a plurality of cumulative storage units each cumulatively storing a predetermined value of the game medium out of a value of the medium accepted by the acceptance unit and further cumulatively storing different ratios of the predetermined values of the medium to the values of the game medium accepted by the acceptance unit;
a game control unit controlling a game based on a base game or a bonus game having a different game mode from the base game;
a first lottery unit performing a lottery as to whether or not the bonus game is generated for each of the plurality of game terminals;
a second lottery unit performing a lottery as to whether or not game medium of the cumulative predetermined value stored in any of the plurality of cumulative storage units are paid out for each game terminal when the bonus game is generated according to the lottery result of the first lottery unit; and
a cumulative game medium paying configured to pay out the game medium of the cumulative predetermined value cumulatively stored in a first cumulative storage unit determined based on the lottery result of the second lottery unit to the determined game terminal as a first payout according to the lottery result of the second lottery unit and a condition that a predetermined award of the base game is not exceeded in the base game result, and the cumulative game medium payout unit further paying out the game medium of the cumulative higher predetermined value cumulatively stored in a second cumulative storage unit determined based on the lottery result of the second lottery unit to the determined game terminal as a second payout according to the second lottery result and a condition that the predetermined award of the base game is exceeded in the base game result.
2. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein the lottery result of the second lottery unit is displayed on the image display unit based on predetermined operation of the operation section, as the bonus game.
3. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a condition determination unit determining whether or not the game terminal satisfies a predetermined condition, wherein the cumulative game medium payout unit pays out the game medium of the cumulative predetermined value cumulatively stored in the cumulative storage unit based on the lottery result of the second lottery unit to the game terminal determined to satisfy the predetermined condition by the condition determination unit.
4. The gaming machine according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a player detection unit detecting whether or not a player plays a game at the game terminal, wherein the condition determination unit determines whether or not the game terminal satisfies a condition that a player should play a game at the game terminal based on the detection result of the player detection unit.
5. The gaming machine according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a acceptance detection unit detecting whether or not the game medium is accepted by the acceptance unit at the game terminal, wherein the condition determination unit determines whether or not the game terminal satisfies a condition that the game medium of a predetermined value or more should be accepted at the game terminal based on the detection result of the acceptance detection unit.
6. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a game medium display unit displaying the value of the game medium stored in a cumulative storage unit assigned the highest ratio of the predetermined value of game medium stored to the value of the game medium accepted by the acceptance unit among the plurality of cumulative storage units, wherein the game medium display unit is provided at a position where the display can be visually recognized from all players playing a game at the plurality of game terminals.
7. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein the image display unit includes a BET screen that displays cumulative predetermined values stored in the plurality of cumulative storage units.
8. The gaming machine according to claim 7 , wherein the cumulative predetermined values respectively includes an initial value.
9. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein the gaming machine is a roulette gaming machine.
10. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein said first lottery unit cancels generation of a bonus game if the lottery indicates that a bonus game should be generated and a predetermined number of bet chips on the base game is not exceeded in the base game betting.