Patent ID: 8075381

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a plural stations each of which determines a game result and executes a game independently; and a processor which executes: (a) a process to accept a bet operation for betting a gaming value at each station; (b) a process to execute a base game independently at each station that has accepted a bet operation; (c) a process to detect number of stations that execute the base game; (d) a process to record accumulative amount of gaming values that each station has bet for base games; (e) a process to determine whether amount of event game payout exceeds predetermined amount, the amount of event game payout being accumulation of parts from amount of gaming values that plural station have bet for base games; (f) a process to accept each station's entry to an event game executed in common to plural stations when the amount of event game payout exceeds the predetermined amount; (g) a process to execute the event game in plural stations of which entries to the event game have been accepted; (h) a process to identify a payout object station entitled to receive event game payout based on a game result of each station that has participated in the event game; (i-1) a process to determine payout change magnification that is a multiplier equal to 1 or less and applied to the payout object station identified at the process (h), wherein the payout change magnification is made closer to 1 as accumulative amount of gaming values that the object station has bet for base becomes larger; (i-2) a process to determine resultant amount of event game payout to be awarded to the payout object station by multiplying the payout change magnification determined at the process (i-1) and bare amount of event game payout together; and (j) a process to award the special prize resultant amount of event game payout determined at the process (i-2) to the payout object station; wherein the processor further executes: (1) a process to pool excessive event game payout for partial amount of next event game payout, the excessive event game payout being the difference between current amount of event game payout and the resultant amount of event game payout to be awarded to the payout object station.