Gaming apparatus

Abstract

A gaming apparatus control part is provided with an external output control circuit, configured in such a manner that gaming information can be output and gaming data sent from each gaming machine is collected in a management server in order to solve the issue that internal winning attraction is limited to each gaming apparatus and a player concentrates only on the gaming apparatus to which he is playing. The management server comprises a link attraction lottery table to determine attraction mode based on sent gaming information and link attraction transmission unit lottery table to determine a destination gaming apparatus of link attraction, determines a link attraction and attraction transmission destination, and sends an attraction data with a predetermined timing on the condition that internal winning data is sent from a gaming apparatus.

1 . A gaming system comprising: 
 a plurality of gaming apparatuses, each of which has a display device and pays what is earned to a player when a prize is generated;    a control and management device which determines a link attraction based on gaming information sent from each of the plurality of gaming apparatuses, wherein    the control and management device is operative to (i) identify a target gaming apparatus in which a prize is generated and at least one neighboring gaming apparatus disposed in the vicinity of the target gaming apparatus from among the plurality of gaming apparatuses, based on the gaming information, and (ii) to transmit the determined link attraction with an identifier of the target gaming apparatus and the at least one neighboring gaming apparatus; and    the display device of each of the target gaming apparatus and the at least one neighboring gaming apparatus is operative to display the transmitted link attraction.    
   
   
       2 . A gaming system as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein 
 the display device of each of the target gaming apparatus and the at least one neighboring gaming apparatus is operative to display a predetermined character after receiving the link attraction, in such a manner that the predetermined character moves from the display device of one of the at least one of the neighboring gaming apparatus toward the target gaming apparatus.