Patent ID: 8388453

Claim:
A gaming system, comprising: a plurality of gaming machines, each including an image display and an input device for input and being capable of executing an independent game; a control device; a single pedestal including said control device therein, and an upper surface for installing said plurality of gaming machines thereon; a common image display being supported at a position above the upper surfaces of said gaming machines; a supporting member including a first end and a second end, said supporting member being provided such that the first end of the supporting member is supported by said pedestal and the second end of the supporting member supports said common image display; a flow channel included in said supporting member that communicates with openings provided at respective ends of said supporting member so as to allow external air flowed into said pedestal to be ejected through said common image display, said flow channel being longer than the height of the gaming machine; and communication cables for communication between said plurality of gaming machines and said control device; wherein said control device comprises a processor, and said processor is programmed to execute the processing of (A) executing a normal game independently in the respective gaming machines connected through said communication cables, (B) determining whether or not to execute a common game which is simultaneously executed in all the gaming machines connected through said communication cables, (C) determining for each of the gaming machines whether or not a normal game in execution has ended, when determining in said processing (B) that a common game is to be executed, (D) canceling, when determining in said processing (C) that the normal game in execution has ended in any of the gaming machines, start of a new normal game in this gaming machine, (E) determining whether or not the normal game in execution has ended in all the gaming machines connected through said communication cables, (F) executing a common game in all the gaming machines connected through said communication cables, when determining in said processing (E) that the normal game in execution has ended in all the gaming machines, and (G) displaying to said common image display a game image of the common game executed in said processing (F).