Patent ID: 8152626
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming machines each including a controller; a control device including a processor; and a network enabling communication between said plurality of gaming machines and said control device, 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, (B) counting a number of said gaming machines joining a game among all of said gaming machines connected by said network, when said cumulative value has reached a predetermined value, (C) executing a common game to be played concurrently in said gaming machines joining the game among all of said gaming machines connected by said network, when the number of said gaming machines counted in said processing (B) is equal to or more than a specific number, (D) identifying said gaming machine as a transmission source of said number-of-game-media information, when the number of said gaming machines counted in said processing (B) is less than the specific number, said number-of-game-media information being a basis of counting of said game media in the counting when said cumulative value has reached the predetermined value in said processing (A), and (E) paying out a fixed number of game media to said gaming machine identified in said processing (D), and wherein said control device comprises a storage device capable of storing data, said processing (b) is processing of transmitting said number-of-game-media information indicative of the number of betted game media as the bet accepted in said processing (a) and gaming-machine identification information indicative of identification information of said gaming machine to said control device, said processor is further programmed to execute processing of (F) storing in said storage device said gaming-machine identification information received from said gaming machine, after deleting said gaming machine identification information previously stored in said storage device, when receiving said gaming machine identification information from said gaming machine, and said processing (D) is processing of identifying said gaming machine corresponding to said gaming-machine identification information, based on said gaming-machine identification information stored in said storage device when said cumulative value has reached the predetermined value, when the number of said gaming machines counted in said processing (B) is less than said specific value.