Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can maintain expectation in a game in which a prize is selectively granted to a player and continue the game. The gaming machine includes a display that displays a video reel having a plurality of symbols including a predetermined symbol and a plurality of cells, to each of which a prize is allocated and a controller that executes a base game in which a bet is necessary and the plurality of symbols are rearranged after scrolling of the video reel, when the predetermined symbol is rearranged in the base game, displays content of a prize of a cell in which the content of the prize is not displayed, when contents of prizes of all of the plurality of cells are displayed, selects one cell from the plurality of cells by lottery, and, when content of a prize allocated to the one cell is a transition to a bonus game more advantageous than the base game, transitions the base game to the bonus game.

Abstract: A management database stores data about a game session expressed in terms of reference time, and data about time differences between the reference time and the standard times of each country or region. The indication of each of game-playing time-periods collected from game machines which are located at random in various countries or regions, is converted from the standard time to the reference time. The game-playing time-period indicated in the reference time is compared with the game session data written on the basis of the reference time in order to determine whether or not the game-playing time-period is within the game session. Then based on the data regarding the play results within the game session, the game ranking is determined.

Abstract: A playing machine making a player feel as if a car is running by moving a mobile body modeling a car shape on the surface of a circulating endless belt, wherein front wheels mounted on the mobile body are turned in a moving direction by a relatively simple mechanism. The mobile body 40 comprises a body 50, the front wheels 43 which are mounted so as to face toward the front both sides of the body 50 and which can swing around steering shafts 70 perpendicular to the obverse surface of the endless belt 20 and a wheel arm 46 to which the both front wheels 43 are connected at positions forward from the steering shafts 70 and which is formed to be movable according to the swing of the front wheels 43 around the steering shafts 70. Moreover, and the obverse-side attraction means 86 is fitted to the wheel arm 46 and is formed to be movable together with the wheel arm 46.

Abstract: In a medal playing machine comprising a playing field which has a side edge at its front side, a gutter-shaped medal inlet device for supplying medals by rolling them onto the playing field, and a medal pusher which moves reciprocatedly on the playing field in a longitudinal direction, in order that the movement pattern of the obstructing means, which obstructs the medals from passing through the medal-passing gate formed in the medal pusher, may be complicated and that difficulty of the game may easily be adjusted, a plurality of vane plates 60 as the obstructing means, which obstruct the medals from passing through by pivoting transversely, are disposed at the medal-passing gate 21 of the medal pusher 10 so that the front ends of the vane plates 60 protrude frontward.

Abstract: A lock mechanism for a hook in which a premium suspended in a hook can be taken out at a predetermined drop position within a casing is provided. The mechanism comprises a base member (40), a hook (10) fixed to the base body (40), and a lock portion (20) for closing an open portion in the hook (10) at the portion other than the predetermined drop position, the lock portion (20) comprises a support point portion (21) axially supported to the base body (40), a rotating piece (22) capable of rotating to both of normal and inverse directions around the support point portion (21) and an operating portion (50) for rotating the rotating piece (22), and the rotating piece (22) is structured such that an end portion thereof is brought into contact with the hook (10) at the position other than the predetermined drop position and at the predetermined position, the rotating piece (22) is rotated so that the premium (60) can move.

Abstract: A self-contained game is provided wherein a player attempts to win one of a plurality of premiums displayed within the game. The game includes a premium-display space surrounded by a first plurality and second plurality of indicators. The indicators may be incandescent lamps. A controller is provided which is configured to sequentially distinguish and extinguish individual indicators comprising said first and second pluralities in a manner to give the appearance of a single indication traveling amongst said first and second plurality of indicators. A player may arrest the apparent motion of said traveling indication by actuating an interface device in an attempt to stop the indication at a selected position corresponding to one of the indicators comprising the second plurality of indicators. The controller is configured to determine which indicator was last distinguished at the time the interface was actuated, and whether the last distinguished indicator is a member of the second plurality.

Abstract: A carousel of rotating arms provides a circular excursion, raising and lowering the arms at fixed locations in the excursion. A target is carried by each arm. A coin chute drops coins at a location where the target passes. The player skill is to roll a coin down a coin chute so that it drops off the end thereof at the instant when a target is positioned to catch it. If desired, the targets may be shaped to require different skill levels by the person who rolls the coin. A microprocessor controls the game machine and pays off according to a programmed schedule. The operational parameters of the game machine may be changed by software adjustments.