Patent ID: 8435105

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a gaming machine, while the gaming machine is available for game play, an input from a player indicating a selection of one of (i) a first game of chance including a first progressive jackpot wherein first odds of winning the first progressive jackpot are fixed and (ii) a second game of chance including a second progressive jackpot to be played as a game of chance on the gaming machine wherein second odds of winning the second progressive jackpot are fixed, wherein at least one of the first progressive jackpot and the second progressive jackpot is a personal progressive jackpot customized for the player, the personal progressive jackpot being customized in response to a second selection, by the player, from a group of types of progressive games, of a particular game type , the group of types consisting of video slots games, slot games, video poker games, video black jack games, video pachinko games, video card games, video keno games and video games of chance; in response to receiving the first selection and the second selection, downloading software to generate the selection of the first game of chance or the second game of chance from a first remote device, downloading configuration information from the first remote device, configuring the software and the gaming machine using the configuration information to allow play of the game of chance that is selected; receiving a wager on the game of chance; determining an outcome for the game of chance; sending to a second remote gaming device information to allow a portion of the wager to be contributed to one of the first progressive jackpot or the second progressive jackpot that is selected.