Patent ID: 8189814

Claim:
A multiplayer participation type gaming system, comprising: a plurality of gaming machines arranged on a predetermined play area and a sound insulating wall disposed between adjacent gaming machines, wherein the sound insulating wall is composed of a liquid crystal panel whose transparency is controllable between a transparent state and an opaque state, each of the gaming machines comprising: a memory to store a plurality of voice generation original data for generating voice messages based on play history data generated in response to a play of a player, and to store predetermined threshold value data related to the play history data; a speaker mounted on the gaming machine to produce a sound message: and a controller programmed to carry out the following processing of: (a) performing an arithmetic operation, in response to a play of the player, at least on one of an input credit amount, an accumulated input credit amount, a payout amount, an accumulated payout amount, a payout rate, an accumulated play time and an accumulated number of times played, and storing after updating the play history data stored in the memory by using the result of the arithmetic operation; (b) comparing, upon updating the play history data stored in the memory, the updated play history data with the predetermined threshold value data (c) generating, when the result of the comparison in the processing (b) indicates that the play history data exceeds the threshold value data, sound data based on the play history data by using the plurality of voice generating original data stored in the memory; and (d) outputting a sound from the speaker based on the sound data generated in the processing (c), (e) further comparing, in the processing (b), the accumulated payout amount of the updated play history data of the player with an accumulated payout amount of a neighboring player separated by the sound insulating wall; and (f) causing, when it is judged that the difference of the accumulated payout amount of the updated play history data of the player with the accumulated payout amount of the neighboring player exceeds a predetermined value, the sound insulating wall to be opaque.