Patent ID: 8197332

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a plurality of gaming terminals each having an input device capable of receiving an external input, a storage device storing various types of bet amount data, and a terminal controller programmed to carryout the steps (a1) to (a6) below in order to individually run a base game, and to run a common game executed at the gaming terminals; and a center controller connected in communication with the gaming terminals, and programmed to carry out the steps (b1) to (b4) in order to execute a common game run at the gaming terminals, wherein the terminal controller carries out the steps of: (a1) accepting a bet input through the input device, the bet input relative to a bet amount corresponding to bet amount data stored in the storage device, the bet amount data indicating a bet amount bettable on a base game; (a2) running a base game after a bet input through the input device is completed, and outputting, to the center controller, bet amount information based on a bet amount bet on the base game for each unit base game; (a3) running a common game in response to a game start command from the center controller; (a4) when it is determined that the gaming terminal is designated to be a shooter based on a shooter command from the center controller, enabling a roll operation command output to the center controller; (a5) accepting a bet input through the input device, the bet input relative to abet amount corresponding to common game bet amount data stored in the storage device, the bet amount data indicating a bet amount bettable on a common game; and (a6) awarding a payout in accordance with a game result of the step (b4) below, based on the bet amount on the common game, and wherein the center controller carries out the steps of: (b1) when a common game start condition has been met based on an accumulated value relative to bet amount information transmitted for each unit base game in the above (a1), outputting a game start command to the gaming terminals; (b2) selecting a specific gaming terminal from among the gaming terminals, and outputting a shooter command signal to the specific gaming terminal; (b3) transmitting, to the specific gaming terminal before the common game begins, bet amount data of a special bet amount in order to cumulatively store in the common game bet amount data stored in the storage device, the special bet amount bettable on the common game; and (b4) determining a game result of the common game based on the roll operation command from the specific gaming terminal.