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Gaming machine and program thereof

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-09-22
UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORP
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[0010] According to the configuration of the present invention, directly drawing a magic-circle as the sign on a display screen is an input operation. The gaming machine is configured to collate inputted sign and preliminary stored sign data, and in cases where the inputted data and the stored sign data are collated one another based on the predetermined rule, the gaming machine executes a predetermined gaming process which is associated with the stored sign data. Thus, the player is able to perform desired gaming process by drawing a predetermined magic-circle (sign). Accordingly, the gaming machine is enabled to have amusing capabilities on input operations per se effectuated by the player on the screen, thereby improving amusement of the game.

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Thus, even if the gaming machine includes the touch panel type controller, there is no presence of amusing capabilities in such input operations yet.

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[0037] A first embodiment according to the present invention is described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The presently filed embodiment is described below in connection with a case where the present invention is applied to an arcade gaming machine serving as one type of gaming machines.

[0038] As shown in FIG. 1, a system is mainly comprised of a host computer 11, and a plurality of gaming machines 12 connected to the host computer 11 via communication lines 13 such as the Internet and a LAN network. In FIG. 1, there is shown a system wherein eight gaming machines 12 are connected to the host computer 11. The number of gaming machines 12, to be connected to the host computer 11, is not particularly limited. In a role-playing game system with such a structure, a large number of players associated one another are able to participate in play of a role-playing game (hereinafter referred to as RPG) simultaneously.

[0039] As shown in FIG. 2, with the RPG of the fir...

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Abstract

A gaming machine of the present invention detects positional information that is inputted, recognizes sign information based on detected positional information, makes comparison between at least one preliminarily stored sign data and recognized sign information to discriminate whether or not the sign information and the sign data are correlated, and executes at least one preliminarily stored game processing associated with the sign data when the sign information and the sign data are correlated.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS (FOR USA) [0001] This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from the prior Japanese Patent Applications No. 2004-069469, filed on Mar. 11, 2004; No. 2004-069467, filed on Mar. 11, 2004; No. 2004-069466, filed on Mar. 11, 2004; and No. 2004-069468, filed on Mar. 11, 2004; the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates to a gaming machine and a program thereof. [0004] 2. Description of the Related Art [0005] In recent years, gaming machines, such as slot machines, computer-games for home use / arcade game use, become widely used. These gaming machines generally include a usual controller (keyboard, mouse, game pad and joy stick etc) each with a plurality of buttons. With a player of the gaming machine manipulates the buttons, associated programs thereof are executed, and an object, for instance a character di...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F3/0488G07F17/32
CPCG06F3/04883G07F17/3211G07F17/3209G07F17/32B24B9/16B24B41/06B24B49/04B24B47/04B23Q17/12
Inventor YOSHIZAWA, KAZUMASAKOGO, JUNICHI
Owner UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORP
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