Patent ID: 8177636
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming machines each including a controller; a control device including a processor; a network enabling communication between said plurality of gaming machines and said control device; a reach portion indicative of a target position to reach; and a coupling illuminated line provided for each of said gaming machines and including a plurality of illuminants arranged from said reach portion to said gaming machine, wherein said controller is programmed to execute processing of (a) accepting a bet of a game medium, and (b) transmitting number-of-game-media information indicative of a number of betted game media as the bet accepted in said processing (a) to said control device, said processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) cumulatively counting a part of the number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on said number-of-game-media information received from said gaming machine, and (B) transmitting a common-game execution signal to said gaming machine, when said cumulative value has reached a predetermined value, said controller is further programmed to execute processing of (c) executing a common game after receiving the common-game execution signal transmitted in said processing (B) from said control device, and (d) transmitting common-game result information determined based on a result of the common game executed in said processing (c) to said control device, said processor is further programmed to execute processing of (C) lighting said plurality of illuminants included in said coupling illuminated line provided for the gaming machine as a transmission source of the common-game result information, based on the common-game result information transmitted in said processing (d), in an order starting from said illuminant provided at a position closest to the gaming machine, (D) determining whether or not the coupling illuminated line with all of said illuminants having been lighted in said processing (C) is present, and (E) paving out a predetermined number of game media, when determining that the coupling illuminated line with all of said illuminants having been lighted is present in said processing (D), to said gaming machine provided with the coupling illuminated line, wherein said processor is further programmed to execute processing of (F) cumulatively calculating a balance of game media indicative of the difference between the number of betted game media and a number of paid-out game media in a normal game executed in said gaming machine, in association with each of said gaming machines, and said processing (C) includes processing of lighting the illuminants in number determined based on the balance of the game media, out of said plurality of illuminants included in said coupling illuminated line provided for the gaming machine corresponding to the balance of the game media cumulatively calculated in said processing (F).