Slot machine including a plurality of video reel strips

摘要

Provided is a slot machine capable of reducing unfairness which may result between a player who has made an investment and a player who has not made an investment and allowing a player to proceed with a game by making an investment in expectation of a jackpot at ease. Each money amount which is constant is accumulated independently of a number of bets each time betting is conducted, and upon winning a jackpot, a money amount calculated by multiplying a money amount accumulated until then by a multiplying factor based on the number of bets is provided.

主权项

1. A slot machine comprising:
a symbol display device having symbol display regions for displaying a part of reel strips on which a plurality of kinds of symbols including particular symbols are arranged; a processor for causing a game to proceed by displaying the reel strips in a scrolling manner and by arranging a plurality of symbols in the symbol display regions of the symbol display device for each unit game in a viewable manner; a value-addition mechanism by which credits to be bet can be added to the slot machine and credited to a credit meter; a bet-placing mechanism by which a player can bet an amount of credits on an outcome of the game to be played; and a pay-out mechanism by which credits can be paid out to the player or credited to the credit meter under control of the processor and in accordance with a final outcome of the game, the processor being programmed to execute, as a result of the player having bet credits, processes (1) and (2) described below; (1) A process in which in regions outside the symbol display regions, a plurality of the particular symbols are arranged in succession, the process being executed for each unit game; (2) A process in which after the particular symbols have been arranged in succession by the process (1), scrolling of the reel strips is started and the particular symbols are caused to be viewable in the symbol display regions.