Patent ID: 7918735

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of game selection-enabled gaming machines which implement a game on the basis of a unit gaming fee, and allow a player to select a game type from a plurality of game types; a game providing server which provides the gaming machines with a game program to implement a selected game type in any of the gaming machines, and a network which connects the plurality of gaming machines to the game providing server, wherein said game providing server includes, a game program memory configured to store a plurality of game programs corresponding to a plurality of types of games; and a first processor configured to permit downloading of the game program corresponding to a type of game selected in any of said game selection-enabled gaming machines, and a respective one of said gaming machines includes, a display device which displays a first icon of an unit gaming fee and a plurality of selection second icons corresponding to the plurality of selectable game types; a touch panel associated with the display device; a memory which stores game selection programs including table-data in which the plurality of game types are correlated with respective unit gaming fees; and a second processor which executes the game selection programs in the memory, and (A) displays, on the display device, a plurality of first icons corresponding to a plurality of unit gaming fees; (B) receives information regarding the unit gaming fee selected through the touch panel by the player; (C) accesses the table-data based on the received information regarding the selected unit gaming fee, and recognizes a game type which can be offered, from the plurality of game types, at the selected unit gaming fee; (D) displays, on the display device, the selection second icons corresponding to the game types which can be offered at the selected unit gaming fee, without displaying the selection second icons corresponding to the game types which cannot be offered at the selected unit gaming fee, based on the recognized game type in processing (C); and (E) requests the game providing server for the game program for the game type corresponding to the selected selection second icon, the second selection icon being selected by the player.