Abstract: A gaming system includes a computerized control unit, a wagering apparatus, and a display. The control unit generates random events in a plurality of prior plays of a wagering game. The wagering apparatus receives a wager for each of the prior plays. The display depicts, in a display image available to a player, history information relating to outcomes of the random events that were generated in the plurality of prior plays. The history information may, for example, include time interval information showing an amount of time elapsed since a particular game outcome last occurred, and/or frequency information showing a frequency of occurrence of a particular game outcome.

Abstract: A gaming machine for conducting a wagering game includes a controller for selecting a game outcome from a plurality of game outcomes and a persistence-of-vision display for displaying the game outcome. The wagering game may, for example, be slots, poker, keno, bingo, blackjack, or roulette, and may be a basic game or a bonus game. The POV display may, for example, be a 360 degree display or a display employing a rapidly moving structure such as a wand, a hoop, a fan, or a disc. A 360 degree display is shaped generally like a cylinder and displays the game outcome with 2D imagery that is generated by selectively illuminating LEDs spinning in a circular direction about a surface of the cylinder. A display employing a rapidly moving structure has disposed about the periphery of the structure a plurality of LEDs that are selectively illuminated as the structure is moved in a direction that is cyclical, orbital, horizontal, vertical, arced, circular, or rotational.