Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
Patent
1995-08-23
1997-07-08
Harrison, Jessica
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
A63F 924
Patent
active
056454864
ABSTRACT:
A progressive gaming system pays out a progressively increasing bonus to a player who wins a game with a predetermined winning combination. The progressive gaming system includes a plurality of gaming controllers which detect when a player gets one of a plurality of predetermined winning combinations and pays out a predetermined number of coins or tokens according to the winning combination. Each of the gaming controllers counts coins or tokens bet by the player before the game is started and outputs an indication signal of the amount of the bet coins or tokens. The progressive gaming system further includes an master controller operatively connected to the plurality of gaming controllers, which adds a predetermined percentage of the bet coins or tokens reported by each of the gaming controllers to a bonus value, performs a lottery when the player gets a predetermined winning combination, and controls each of the gaming controllers to pay out coins or tokens corresponding to a predetermined reward for the predetermined winning combination and saved bonus value.
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Nagao Yuji
Yano Keiji
Harrison Jessica
O'Neill Michael
Sega Enterprises Ltd.
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