Patent ID: 8267776

Claim:
A gaming machine capable of running a base game configured to award a payout according to a predetermined winning and a bonus game configured to award a bonus payout, comprising: a plurality of gaming terminals, each including a terminal controller programmed to perform operations (c1) and (c2); a bonus payout indicator that displays the bonus payout; a plurality of paths, respectively corresponding to the gaming terminals, each path including a plurality of light emitting portions arranged to foam a channel extending from a corresponding one of the gaming terminals to the bonus payout indicator; and a center controller programmed to perform operations (d1) through (d3), the terminal controller in each gaming terminal (c1) running the base game independently from the other gaming terminals and awarding the payout according to a predetermined winning, and (c2) awarding the bonus payout based on an instruction from the center controller, and the center controller (d1) running the bonus game in each gaming terminal based on a predetermined condition, and awarding to any of the gaming terminals a light emitting portion activating condition for activating a random number of the light emitting portions in a corresponding one of the paths, wherein the random number is determined such that each gaming terminal needs the same number of light emitting portion activating conditions to activate all of the light emitting portions in its corresponding path, (d2) activating the random number of the light emitting portions toward the bonus payout indicator in a path corresponding to a gaming terminal to which the light emitting portion activating condition is awarded, and (d3) instructing the terminal controller of the gaming terminal, corresponding to a path in which all the light emitting portions are turned active, to award the bonus payout.