Patent ID: 7175527

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a display for displaying images associated with a game played on the gaming machine, the images including a plurality of credit meters, each of the credit meters being associated with one of a plurality of players who are playing the game, the game being one in which one or more random events are caused to be displayed on the display and, if a predefined winning event results, a prize is awarded; a game controller arranged to control the images displayed on the display, the game controller being arranged to, in response to at least one of the players wagering a credit amount, play the game; a credit acceptor for accepting credit deposited by the players; a credit allocator for, allocating credit to any one of the plurality of credit meters to thereby enable each of the plurality of credit meters to be credited with a credit amount selected by the player associated with that credit meter, irrespective of the credit amounts credited to any of the other credit meters.