Patent ID: 8167699

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: plural stations each of which determines a game result and executes a game independently; and a processor which executes: (a) a process to execute a base game independently at each station; (b) a process to accept each station's entry to an event game executed in common to the plural stations and consisting of a plural number of unit games when a predetermined condition is satisfied; (c) a process to collect an entry fee in exchange for the entry to the event game when accepting the entry to the event game; (d) a process to collect a game charge in exchange for an execution of a unit game by each start of the unit games which compose the event game, from a station of which entry to the event game has been accepted; (e) a process to accumulatively add part of the collected game charge to event game payout to be awarded at the event game as often as collecting a game charge in exchange for an execution of the unit game; (f) a process to execute a unit game included in the event game in a station of which game charge has been collected; (g) a process to identify a station entitled to receive the event game payout at a moment of finishing the event game, based on an event game result of each station that has participated to the event game when the event game is finished with execution of the plural number of unit games; and (h) a process to award to the station currently identified the event game payout obtained at a moment of finishing the event game.