Patent ID: 7766738

Claim:
A gaming machine of the type wherein a large number of players participate in a game, the gaming machine comprising: a plurality of game terminals each including an operation section accepting operation of a player, an acceptance unit accepting game medium, and an image display unit displaying a predetermined image; a plurality of cumulative storage units each cumulatively storing a predetermined value of the game medium out of a value of the medium accepted by the acceptance unit and further cumulatively storing different ratios of the predetermined values of the medium to the values of the game medium accepted by the acceptance unit; a game control unit controlling a game based on a base game or a bonus game having a different game mode from the base game; a first lottery unit performing a lottery as to whether or not the bonus game is generated for each of the plurality of game terminals; a second lottery unit performing a lottery as to whether or not game medium of the cumulative predetermined value stored in any of the plurality of cumulative storage units are paid out for each game terminal when the bonus game is generated according to the lottery result of the first lottery unit; and a cumulative game medium paying configured to pay out the game medium of the cumulative predetermined value cumulatively stored in a first cumulative storage unit determined based on the lottery result of the second lottery unit to the determined game terminal as a first payout according to the lottery result of the second lottery unit and a condition that a predetermined award of the base game is not exceeded in the base game result, and the cumulative game medium payout unit further paying out the game medium of the cumulative higher predetermined value cumulatively stored in a second cumulative storage unit determined based on the lottery result of the second lottery unit to the determined game terminal as a second payout according to the second lottery result and a condition that the predetermined award of the base game is exceeded in the base game result.