Patent ID: 8192282

Claim:
A gaming apparatus comprising: a display; a speaker; a memory storing dealer image data for displaying a dealer who advances a game, game image data relating to a progress of the game, and background image data corresponding to background sound data for outputting a background sound; and a controller, said controller programmed to execute the processing of (A) advancing a game, (B) reading the dealer image data and the game image data from said memory according to the progress of the game in said processing (A), (C) selecting, from the background image data stored in said memory, selected background image data to be read from said memory, wherein the selection is made randomly during a first time period, and is made according to a predetermined order during a second time period, (D) reading from said memory the selected background image data selected in said processing (C), (E) displaying to said display a display image based on display image data, after generating the display image data by superimposing the dealer image data and the game image data read in said processing (B) on the selected background image data read in said processing (D), and (F) outputting from said speaker the background sound based on the background sound data, after reading, among sets of background sound data which correspond to the plurality of the background image data, respectively, the background sound data corresponding to the selected background image data read in said processing (D).