Patent ID: 8177629

Claim:
A game system, comprising: a server; and a plurality of gaming machines connected to the server via a network, each gaming machine having a display device and a storage device storing a game program for controlling a single kind of game, a display program for displaying an image on the display device, and a coin setting program for setting a kind of coin needed per one bet, the plurality of gaming machines running said single kind of game by executing the game program and the coin setting program, wherein the server stores a plurality of game programs for controlling different kinds of games, a plurality of display programs for displaying an image on the display device, and a plurality of coin setting programs for setting different kinds of coin needed per one bet, and at least one of the plurality of gaming machines executes a rewriting process of downloading at least one of the plurality of game programs, the plurality of display programs, and the plurality of coin setting programs from the server based on selection by a player and rewriting the storage device by the downloaded at least one of the programs, if in the rewriting process the game program stored in the storage device is not rewritten whereas the display program is rewritten, said at least one of the plurality of gaming machines runs the single kind of game while changing the image displayed on the display device to an image indicated by the display program thus rewritten but not changing the kind of game, if in the rewriting process the game program stored in the storage device is not rewritten whereas the coin setting program is rewritten, said at least one of the plurality of gaming machines runs the single kind of game while changing the kind of coin needed per one bet based on the coin setting program thus rewritten but not changing the kind of game, each gaming machine includes a determining device which selects a predetermined ratio from among a plurality of ratios according to the kind of coin needed per one bet which is set based on the coin setting program stored in the storage device, and an accumulating device which accumulatively stores a bonus resource in the server, the resource being a part of a bet credit value pooled according to the predetermined ratio selected by the determining device, and the server includes a storage device that collects and accumulatively stores the resource from each gaming machine according to the predetermined ratio set based on the coin setting program stored in the storage device, and an awarding device that awards an amount of resource accumulated by the accumulating device to any of the gaming machines satisfying a predetermined game condition.