Patent ID: 8298072

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a symbol display which is able to variably display plural symbols; and a controller programmed to execute the following processes of: (b1) after a game medium whose number is smaller than a predetermined maximum bet amount is bet, running a game in which the plural symbols are variably displayed on the symbol display and the symbols are stopped, and a predetermined number of game media are paid out according to the stopped symbols or a combination of the stopped symbols; (b2) on condition that a predetermined number of game media, which is not smaller than a minimum bet amount and not larger than the maximum predetermined bet amount, are inserted in (b1), automatically shifting from a non-rescue mode to a rescue mode without an additional input from a game player after insertion of the game media, and on condition that the predetermined number of game media are not inserted in (b1), maintaining the non-rescue mode; (b3) if automatic shifting to the rescue mode is carried out in (b2), displaying a meter table which is divided into a predetermined number of blocks; (b4) determining by lottery a rescue achieving game number; (b5) counting the number games run in the rescue mode; (b6) displaying, by the number of blocks turned on the meter table, the number of games counted in (b5); (b7) awarding a predetermined benefit when the number of games counted in (b5) reaches the rescue achieving game number determined in (b4); and (b8) if the predetermined benefit is awarded in (b7) or if a game resulting in payout of a predetermined number of game media is run in (b1) before the number of games counted reaches the rescue achieving game number, initializing the rescue achieving game number determined in (b4) and the number of games counted in (b5).