Abstract: The powered retractable ship ladder replaces the current technology of manually-lowered ship ladders. The powered ladder includes powered extension and retraction, with the added capability of being able to lift a user during ladder retraction. The ladder is formed from a collection of links. The links only permit the ladder to bend in one direction, thus keeping the extended ladder against the side of the ship, rather than swinging toward and away from the ship.

Abstract: A method of gaming includes rotating a plurality of mechanical reels mounted to a cabinet to a stopping position, each mechanical reel carrying a plurality of symbols at a plurality of symbol display positions arranged around the outer periphery of the mechanical reel, such that a selected subset of the symbol display positions of each mechanical reel are viewable by a player when the reels are stopped; controlling at least one video display adjacent to the mechanical reels to display at least one additional symbol of the symbols of at least one reel as a video symbol at a video symbol display position adjacent one of the viewable symbol display positions of the respective mechanical reel; and evaluating the symbols of the subsets and the at least one video symbol to determine whether to make an award.