Patent ID: 8105146
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine comprising: plural stations each of which determines a game result and executes a game independently; and a processor which executes: (a) a process to execute a base game independently at each station; (b) a process to obtain each station's contribution degree based on gaming value amount used at each station for a base game, with the contribution degree being set higher as the total amount of gaming value used at the base game increases; (c) a process to accept each station's entry to an event game executed in common to the plural stations when a predetermined condition is satisfied; (d) a process to collect an entry fee depending on the contribution degree in exchange for an entry to the event game from a station of which entry to the event game has been accepted, with the entry fee to be collected being set lower at a station where the contribution degree is set higher; and (e) a process to execute the event game in a station of which entry fee has been collected, wherein the gaming machine further comprises a first table that associates plural ranks of contribution degree with plural ranges of gaming value amount used at each station and a second table that associates plural ranks of contribution degree with plural amounts of entry fee, and wherein the process executes: (α) a process to specify a rank of contribution degree associated with gaming value amount used at each station by referring to first table, with respect to each station of which entry to the event game has been accepted; and (β) a process to determine an amount of entry fee of each station of which entry to the event game has been accepted in accordance with the rank of contribution degree specified at (α) and the second table.