Patent ID: 7624426

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a gaming machine main body that plays a game with a predetermined game medium; one or more decoration members, each having identification information memorized therein; mounting means mounted to the gaming machine main body, the one or more decoration members being detachably mounted thereto; special gaming state determining means for determining a special gaming state as a gaming state of when the big win gaming state, which is advantageous to a player, is over, the special gaming state having a high probability that it will be made a big win gaming state next time, effect data memorizing means for memorizing plural sets of effect data, each of which sets corresponds to the identification information of a predetermined decoration member in the one or more decoration members, and includes first effect data including effect information related to the predetermined decoration member and second effect data not including the effect information related to the predetermined decoration member; identification information reading out means for reading out the identification information from a decoration member in the one or more decoration members, when the decoration member is mounted to the mounting means; effect data selecting means for selecting, from the plural sets of effect data memorized in the effect data memorizing means, the first effect data corresponding to the identification information read out by the identification information reading out means in a high probability, as compared to the second effect data, when it is determined that the gaming state is shifted to the special gaming state by the special gaming state determining means; and effect means for carrying out an effect, based on the effect data selected by the effect data selecting means.