SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NON-CURRENCY FUNCTIONALITY IN AN ELECTRONIC GAMING MACHINE

摘要

A system for providing non-currency credit receipt functionality in an electronic gaming machine (101), the gaming machine including: a central logic unit (103) for providing gaming functionalities in which a credit has a predetermined unit value; a validator (104) configured for receiving a non-currency token including data for use in deriving a value of said token and for providing validator signals indicative of validator activity to the central logic unit; a token printer (106) for printing non-currency tokens; and a user-operable input device (108) for enabling the user to indicate a desire to cease operation of the gaming machine; the system being adapted for: determining the value of a received non-currency token; being responsive thereto for causing the central logic unit (103) to increase playing credit by a credit amount less than the value of the non-currency token; being responsive to operation of the user-operable input device (108) for causing the printer (106) to print a non-currency token having a value including the value of the received non-currency token less the credit amount.