Patent ID: 8388439

Claim:
A gaming system, comprising: a plurality of gaming terminals; a common display; and a progressive bonus counter, wherein each of the gaming terminals includes: a terminal display that displays thereon an image regarding a progress of a game; and a controller configured to: execute the game by receiving a bet, and accumulate a part of the bet in the progressive bonus counter; determine a number of the plurality of gaming terminals which the game is being executed in; display an image on the common display and execute an event game which the plurality of gaming terminals participate in when the game is being executed in at least two of the plurality of gaming terminals and an accumulated count value of the progressive bonus counter has reached a predetermined value; end the event game when a time duration of the event game reaches an event game execution time; provide an award corresponding to a part or entirety of the accumulated count value to a specific gaming terminal that has won the event game; and execute a bonus game different from the event game when the game is executed only one of the plurality of gaming terminals and the accumulated count value of the progressive bonus counter has reached the predetermined value, and provide an award corresponding to a part or entirety of the accumulated count value to the one of the plurality of gaming terminals in which the bonus game is executed.