Patent ID: 8192273

Claim:
A gaming system, comprising: a plurality of game machines, each of which: is brought into a status enabling start of a game based on an amount of deposited coins or a given credit number, makes a payout according to a result of the game, and sends game information associated with play of the game on the game machine; and a game server having a processor programmed to: collectively control the plurality of game machines, judge, based on the game information, excluding information associated with a game result, sent from one of the plurality of game machines, whether a cumulative credit consumption, corresponding to the amount of coins deposited or the credit number bet and consumed by only one player continuously playing or assumed to be continuously playing the game on the one game machine has reached a preset upper limit value not based on an amount of the payout irrespective of the game result for the one game machine, and send, based on the judgment, a control signal to the one game machine for executing a return to the one player after the cumulative credit consumption has reached the preset upper limit value, wherein, the cumulative credit consumption data is reset at the end of the game by the player, and the number of inserted coins or credit number is added to the cumulative credit consumption data, which is data of cumulative consumption of coins or credit number.