Gaming machine with payout table

Abstract

A slot machine comprising a payout display device, which performs a high display effect, is provided. The slot machine 1 is provided with a sub display 3. The sub display 3 displays a payout table showing payout information about payout amount distributed to a player depending on the number of coins bet by the player and the winning combination.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is based upon and claims the benefits of priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-055541 filed on Feb. 27, 2004, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. [0002] This application is related to a co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______ entitled “Gaming Machine With Game Effect” and “Gaming Machine With Reel Window,” and both being filed on even date herewith. The co-pending applications are expressly incorporated herein by reference. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0003] This invention relates to a gaming machine such as a slot machine which is provided with variable display means such as reels which carries out variable display of symbols necessary for a game, control means such as a microcomputer, and so on. RELATED ART [0004] In the past, as this kind of a gaming machine, there has been, for example, a slot machine. A game on a slot machine is started by inserting a coin into a sl...

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Benefits of technology

[0007] However, the suchlike gaming machine aims to increase motivation for the player to bet more gaming media, by changing the payout table in accordance with the number of gaming media being bet by the player to realize that the player may have more chances to get the payout. Therefore, in a gaming machine which pays out more coins as an award in accordance with coins having been bet by the player, it is not easy to display payout tables, which correspond to the base game and the bonus game, respectively, in such a manner that the player can easily discriminate them.

[0020] According to the invention described in (1), the payout table, which corresponds to the gaming condition of the gaming machine being in either the base game condition or the bonus game condition, is displayed on a predetermined display device, and therefore, the player can easily identify content of payout information in accordance with the gaming condition of the gaming machine, distinctively. Meanwhile, symbols appearing along a predetermined line or appearing symbols are defined, but it is not necessarily limited to symbols appearing along a predetermined line as a target combination, and it is possible to combine symbols which appear at a predetermined position or predetermined positions, or appearing symbols which may include blank or solid color symbols such that the combined symbols may trigger the bonus game.

[0023] According to the invention described in (2), a demonstration or an image effect relating to the game is displayed when display of a payout table is not carried out on a predetermined display device, and therefore, it is possible to heighten a demonstration effect or a game effect including image effect and sound effect of the game by effectively utilizing the display device.

[0040] According to the present invention, a payout table corresponding to either a base game condition or a bonus game condition of a gaming condition with the gaming machine is displayed on a predetermined display device, and therefore, the player can easily identify content of payout information in accordance with the gaming condition with the gaming machine, distinctively.

Problems solved by technology

Therefore, in a gaming machine which pays out more coins as an award in accordance with coins having been bet by the player, it is not easy to display payout tables, which correspond to the base game and the bonus game, respectively, in such a manner that the player can easily discriminate them.

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