Patent ID: 7740540

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a display unit including a game display region, in which a game image used in a game played on the gaming machine is displayed, and a plurality of country-specific display regions, in which country-specific data is displayed; an image data storage unit that stores common image data that is common to a plurality of user countries in which the gaming machine is used, and individual image data that differ from user country to user country; a position changing unit that selects one of the country-specific display regions for displaying country-specific data and that changes position on the display unit of the game display region, on a per user country basis, based on the country in which the gaming machine is to be played, using the common image data and a selected one of the individual image data stored in the image data storage unit: and a reading unit that reads user country codes identifying each of the user countries and that reads a specific country code from an external storage medium storing the specific user country storage medium being supplied to the reading unit, wherein the position changing unit sets the display position of the game display region based on the specific user country code read by the reading unit, and the position changing unit changes the display position of the game display region, on a per user country basis, using the common image data stored in the e image data storage unit and the one of the individual image data corresponding to the specific user country code read by the reading unit.