US 7,601,063 B2
Game system including slot machines and game control method thereof
Kazuo Okada, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, Nev. (US)
Filed on Dec. 08, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/635,513.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/836402, filed on Aug. 09, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2008/0039172 A1, Feb. 14, 2008
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 463—20 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A game system comprising:
a slot machine which includes a controller for controlling a basic game, and which has a function whereby, in a case that a predetermined condition has been satisfied, a switching signal is transmitted for switching the basic game to a second game that differs from the basic game;
a second game device which is a separate device from said slot machine, and which executes the second game;
a display which displays an image corresponding to a status of the second game executed by said second game device, and which allows a player who is playing the second game at said slot machine to visually confirm the image; and
a central controller which has a function of communicating with said slot machine, said second game device, and said display, and which transmits a start signal for starting the second game, which is executed by said second game device according to the switching signal thus received,
wherein said slot machine and a seat provided near said slot machine for the player are installed on a movable floor,
and wherein said controller raises said movable floor upward according to the switching signal thus received.