Gaming machine displaying predetermined images for displaying a bonus symbol at a predetermined position

摘要

A gaming machine 13 determines a position of a symbol statically displayed corresponding to a random number thus generated, statically displays the video reels 3A to 3E which were rotationally displayed in sequence, in a case where a bonus game is statically displayed, displays an image corresponding to the total number of the bonus symbols statically displayed on the display every time the video reels 3A to 3E are statically displayed. Furthermore, in a case where the total number of the bonus symbols which were statically displayed is a predetermined number, and when the bonus symbol included in a video reel to be statically displayed next is determined to be stopped at a predetermined stop position, displays a predetermined image on the display while the video reel to be statically displayed next is being rotationally displayed.

主权项

1. A gaming machine, comprising:
a display including a first display area for rotationally displaying each of a plurality of symbol groups having a plurality of symbols and a second display area for displaying a visual effect, the first display area being separated from the second display area; a plurality of switches configured to start a basic game and to bet a desired amount of credits; at least one slot configured to receive a game medium providing credits to be bet to play the basic game; a memory for storing a plurality of visual effects that correspond to total numbers of bonus symbols, respectively; and a controller configured with logic to:
(a1) receive the desired amount of credits as a bet through the switches;(a) generate a random number and start the basic game corresponding to input to the switches when the desired amount of credits is received as the bet;(b) rotationally display each of the plurality of symbol groups displayed on the first display area of the display;(c) determine a position of a symbol to be statically displayed on the first display area of the display corresponding to the random number thus generated;(d) cause the first display area of the display to statically display in sequence according to a result obtained in (c) each of the plurality of symbol groups which are rotationally displayed;(e) in a case where a first bonus symbol is statically displayed during a play, display a visual effect, which corresponds to a total number of the bonus symbols of the play statically displayed from among the visual effects, on the second display area of the display every time a symbol group is statically displayed; and(f) in a case where the total number of the bonus symbols in one or more symbol groups which have stopped spinning matches a predetermined number and the controller determines to stop a second bonus symbol included in a next-to-stop-spinning symbol group at a predetermined stop position, display a predetermined image signaling that the basic game is set to proceed to a bonus game on the second display area of the display while the next-to-stop-spinning symbol group is being rotationally displayed, and start the bonus game after the second bonus symbol stops at the predetermined stop position, wherein the first display area includes a plurality of positions including the predetermined stop position, and wherein in a case where the total number of the bonus symbols in one or more symbol groups which have stopped spinning matches the predetermined number and the controller determines to stop the second bonus symbol at any one of the plurality of positions excluding the predetermined stop position in (f), the controller is configured to not display the predetermined image signaling that the basic game is set to proceed to the bonus game while the next-to-stop-spinning symbol group is being rotationally displayed, and then to start the bonus game after the second bonus symbol stops at the any one of the plurality of positions excluding the predetermined stop position.