Patent 7465226 was granted and assigned to Konami Gaming, Inc. on December, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A multi-station game machine, includes a plurality of reels, each reel having a plurality of symbols, and the reels spinning horizontally around a vertical axis. The reels are arranged coaxially in the vertical direction. Each of the reels has a circumferential length which enables at least two players to play a game on the game machine simultaneously.