A gaming machine has a main display and a touch panel. In the gaming machine, a CPU measures the time period elapsed from the time when a player can perform a progress operation input for proceeding with a game using the touch panel, to the time when the progress operation input is actually performed, determines whether or not the elapsed time period is within a predetermined set time, and, when determining that the elapsed time period is within the set time, provides a bonus, which is beneficial in proceeding with the game, to the player.