Patent ID: 8591328

Claim:
A gaming machine configured to present a wagering game including a randomly selected game outcome, the gaming machine comprising: one or more input devices; one or more video display devices; one or more processors; and one or more memory devices, at least one of the one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the gaming machine to: receive an input from a player indicative of a wager to initiate the wagering game; receive, into at least one of the one or more memory devices, mechanical reel instructions for positioning at least one of a plurality of mechanical reels so that the plurality of mechanical reels will display the randomly selected game outcome as an array of reel symbols; convert the mechanical reel instructions into one or more identifiers corresponding to respective video sequences of a plurality of video sequences stored on at least one of the one or more memory devices, the plurality of video sequences including at least one video representation of a reel symbol; and display the corresponding video sequences identified by the one or more identifiers to provide a video representation of the plurality of mechanical reels displaying the randomly selected game outcome.