in the form of a card flash drive or any other portable storage medium capable of being read by the reading device a top box 26 may carry artwork 28 including for example pay tables and details of bonus awards and other information or images relating to the game further artwork and or information may be provided on a front panel 29 of the console 12 a coin tray 30 is mounted beneath the front panel 29 for dispensing cash payouts from the gaming machine 10 the display 14 shown in fig2 is in the form of a video display unit particularly a cathode ray tube screen device alternatively the display 14 may be a liquid crystal display plasma screen any other suitable video display unit or the visible portion of an electromechanical device the top box 26 may also include a display for example a video display unit which may be of the same type as the display 14 or of a different type fig3 shows a block diagram of operative components of a typical gaming machine which may be the same as or different to the gaming machine of fig2 the gaming machine 100 includes a game controller 101 having a processor 102 instructions and data to control operation of the processor 102 are stored in a memory 103 which is in data communication with the processor 102 typically the gaming machine 100 will include both volatile and non volatile memory and more than one of each type of memory with such memories being collectively represented by the memory 103 the gaming machine has hardware meters 104 for purposes.