Patent ID: 8371926

Claim:
A slot machine, comprising: a symbol display device configured to display an effect image and to variably display a plurality of symbols to a player; a touch panel provided to a display region of the symbol display device; an input button displayed touch panel, which is configured to output a detection signal when operated by the player; an output device to output an image or a sound; a card reader that reads data from a card storing data for identifying the player; and a controller, said controller programmed to execute a process of: (A) executing a game in which said plurality of symbols are variably displayed and then stop-displayed to said symbol display device after game media are bet in a number equal to or less than a previously set maximum number of bets, and game media are paid out in a number according to the stop-displayed symbols or a combination thereof; (B) shifting a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode when a predetermined number of game media is inserted; (C) counting a number of games played after shifting to said insurance mode, in said insurance mode; (D) paying out a predetermined number of game media when the number of games counted in said processing (C) reaches a specific number; (E) when the number of credits of the game media changes from zero to one or more in the non-insurance mode, displaying the input button in a part of the display region of the symbol display device in such a manner so as to allow an input operation through the touch panel, and outputting, by said output device, a notification which urges the player to operate said input button; (F) when said detection signal is outputted by said input button within a predetermined period of time in the non-insurance mode, showing text information about the insurance mode in the display region of the symbol display device; (G) causing the input button to disappear when no detection signal is output from the input button within the predetermined period of time in the non-insurance mode; and, (H) when the mode shifts from the non-insurance mode to the insurance mode, causing the text information about the insurance mode to disappear, and displaying information indicating that the current mode is the insurance mode in the display region of the symbol display device.