Patent ID: 8323090

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming machines each including a controller; a control device including a common display capable of displaying an image and a processor; a network enabling communication between said plurality of gaming machines and said control device; a reach portion indicative of a target position to reach; and a plurality of coupling illuminated lines respectively provided for said gaming machines, each coupling illuminated line including a plurality of illuminants arranged from said reach portion to a corresponding gaming machine, wherein at least a part of said plurality of coupling illuminated lines are different in a number of the illuminants provided, wherein said controller is programmed to execute processing of (a) accepting a bet of a game medium, and (b) transmitting number-of-game-media information indicative of a number of betted game media as the bet accepted in said processing (a) to said control device, said processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) cumulatively counting a part of the number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on said number-of-game-media information received from said gaming machine, and (B) transmitting a common-game execution signal to said gaming machine, when said cumulative value has reached a predetermined value, said controller is further programmed to execute processing of (c) executing a common game after receiving the common-game execution signal transmitted in said processing (B) from said control device, and (d) transmitting common-game result information determined based on a result of the common game executed in said processing (c) to said control device, and said processor is further programmed to execute processing of (C) lighting said plurality of illuminants included in said coupling illuminated line provided for the gaming machine as a transmission source of the common-game result information in an order starting from said illuminant provided at a position closest to the gaming machine towards the reach portion corresponding to the gaming machine, based on the common-game result information transmitted in said processing (d), (D) determining whether or not the coupling illuminated line with all of said illuminants having been lighted in said processing (C) is present, and (E) paying out the game media in number based on said cumulative value, when determining that the coupling illuminated line with all of said illuminants having been lighted is present in said processing (D), to said gaming machine provided with the coupling illuminated line, as well as displaying a numeral image corresponding to said cumulative value to said common display.