An apparatus and method for quickly and easily providing desired paytable
information to a player of a gaming device. The invention utilizes the
game's display device containing a plurality of game generated symbols as
an index of symbols from which a player can choose a desired symbol. The
present invention enables a player to touch or otherwise select the
desired symbol and produce desired paytable information, which includes a
plurality of different types of information. Touching a desired symbol is
simple, interactive and entertaining. Such features are not inherent in
the existing methods. The invention contemplates the game maintaining one
or more databases for every single symbol. Alternatively, the game can
maintain one or more databases having information on all the symbols of
the gaming device and immediately scroll to the desired symbol upon the
player's selection.