GAME MACHINE, CONTROLLING METHOD OF GAME MACHINE, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM CAPABLE OF EXECUTING THE METHOD AND SERVER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which can give a player the pleasure of estimating the time when the next big hit state of a game is expected to be provided, on the occasion when the player chooses the game machine. SOLUTION: In the game machine wherein patterns are displayed repeatedly in a variation-and-stop cycle in a display part and the big hit state of the game is brought about when the patterns stop in a prescribed combination, a background image sectioned into a plurality of regions is displayed in a part or the whole of the area of the display part, while image pieces of a display color discernible from the background image are displayed and combined so that they are inlaid in sections, and after the prescribed image pieces are combined and displayed in all the sections, the patterns stop in the prescribed combination and shift to the big hit state of the game. Thus the image pieces function as big hit information display means which are displayed in the display part of the game machine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO