Patent ID: 8062125

Claim:
A system for enhancing game play on networked gaming machines, each networked gaming machine comprising a central processor and a memory, a reader and a writer operatively coupled to the processor, and further comprising program logic stored in the memory usable to play at least one base game in exchange for a wager, the system comprising: a plurality of gaming machines; a back-end database connected to each of the networked gaming machines by a network; a writer operatively coupled to the processor of a first networked gaming machine, the writer configured to provide a Newprom instrument associated with a Newprom award issued to a player at the first gaming machine, wherein the central processor of the first gaming machine is configured to store the Newprom award in the back-end database; a reader operatively coupled to the processor of a second networked gaming machine, the reader configured to receive the Newprom instrument from the player, wherein the central processor of the second gaming machine is configured to retrieve the Newprom award associated with the Newprom instrument from the back-end database and determine whether the Newprom award is applicable to the at least one base game on the second gaming machine; and, if applicable, to execute program logic stored in the memory of the second gaming machine to alter the at least one base game on the second gaming machine to an enhanced base game state in response to the Newprom award, wherein the Newprom award is configured to add one or more game play enhancements available to the player only by way of the Newprom award to the at least one base game, thereby altering the at least one base game to the enhanced base game state so that the at least one base game is playable with the one or more game play enhancements, wherein the game play enhancements comprise additional pay lines to the at least one base game, additional winning indicia for the at least one base game, a change in a game play of the at least one base game to a different game play or any combination thereof.