Patent ID: 8092295

Claim:
A game system, comprising: a plurality of monitors installed in a plurality of gaming facilities for relaying a variety of events; a plurality of gaming machines installed in the gaming facilities; a bookmaker terminal for generating odds information associated with the variety of events, the bookmaker terminal including: an odds control section having a CPU to perform arithmetic processing based on an amount-of-money information, the amount-of-money being of a predetermined computation program and bet on one of the gaming machines, the odds control section distributing an updated odds information to all of the gaming machines; and a communication means for distributing the odds information from the bookmaker terminal to the gaming machines, each of the gaming machines comprising: an operating section including a change button for switching between a screen of a bookgame and a screen of a game played at the gaming machine; a game control section with a CPU for performing control operation in accordance with a preset program to control acceptance or payout of gaming media associated with a game processing operation of the game based on an operation of the operating section; a bookgame control section for receiving the odds information from the bookmaker terminal and for accepting a bet by the operation of the operating section; a ticketing device controlled by the bookgame control section to drive and issue the bet placed by the operation of the operating section; an image display device operated by the operating section for interchangeably displaying on the image display device (i) the screen of the bookgame with the odds information associated with the variety of events and (ii) the screen of the game; and an image control section for controlling an image to be displayed on the image display device based on a command from the game control section.