JP2000140265A - Pachinko game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pachinko game machine that can leave players continuing to play in unbroken tensional hope or enjoying its attraction fully even after the stage of jackpots. SOLUTION: This pachinko game machine, which uses a motor-flipped general winning hole 23 adapted to open when a play ball passing either pass-through gates 20 and 21 on a playing board 1 activates a general picture display 22 and the scrolling display thereof stops at a preset picture, adopts an extension mode wherein the motor-flipped general winning hole 23 is extended on opening time after each jackpot that is ensured by particular matching of stopped pictures on a special picture display 25 actuated for scrolling motion by a play ball put in the motor-flipped general winning hole 23. The extension mode is ended at an unspecified time when the special picture display 25 typically shows a character or changes the background to indicate that the extension mode will end.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a special symbol display which displays a plurality of symbols such as numbers and symbols in a fluctuating manner when a game ball enters, and a big hit state occurs when the fluctuation is stopped in a specific symbol. The present invention relates to a pachinko gaming machine configured such that an electric opening / closing big winning opening is continuously opened to make it easy to win a game ball.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, a first-class pachinko game machine called a "fever machine" is composed of a normal symbol display having a seven-segment light-emitting display on a game board, a color liquid crystal display, a CRT and the like. A special symbol display is provided,
When the game ball passes through the passing gate, a numeral (hereinafter, referred to as a symbol) is displayed on the ordinary symbol display, for example, 4 → 6 → 8 →
It is displayed in the order of 3 → 5 → 7. After a few seconds, it stops at one of the symbols 3 to 7, and if the stopped symbol becomes 3 or 7 by chance with a certain probability, it is called a tulip. When the normal electric opening and closing winning opening is opened for a short time (for example, about 0.7 seconds), a game ball can easily enter the ordinary electric opening and closing winning opening. The symbols are variably displayed in three columns so that numbers 1 to 9 and symbols such as ☆ ◆ ◎ ▽ (hereinafter referred to as symbols) flow from the top to the bottom on the special symbol display, respectively. After a few seconds, they stop sequentially, and the stopped symbol has a probability of 1/200 to 300 by chance. For example, “777”, “☆☆☆”, etc. If the fluctuation stops, the jackpot will be The opening and closing door of the big winning opening is continuously opened by the operation of the electric opening and closing device, so that game balls are extremely easy to enter, so that a large amount of prize balls can be acquired and a lot of profits are brought to the player. It is configured.

However, when the big hit state ends and the game returns to the normal game state, it is not easy to bring the big hit state again, and the prize ball may be driven again during the meantime. Therefore, conventionally, a so-called probability-variable pachinko machine in which once a jackpot state has been reached and the jackpot state ends, the probability of the jackpot being set high thereafter has been put to practical use.

[0004] However, conventional stochastic fluctuating pachinko machines,
Once the jackpot has been achieved, the advantage after that is almost guaranteed, so if a jackpot occurs, the number of prize balls obtained after that is roughly determined and there is a drawback that interest is reduced by half, There is also a problem that once a jackpot occurs, a large amount of prize balls are always released, so that only gambling is excessively stimulated.

[0005] Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.
In the pachinko gaming machine disclosed in the publication of -332265, it is proposed that the opening time of the ordinary electric opening / closing winning port is extended to a predetermined number of times or to a predetermined time after the end of the big hit. In Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-155018, a lottery is performed at the end of the big hit to determine whether or not the extension can be performed, and as a result, the opening time of the normal electric opening / closing winning port is extended.

However, even in the pachinko gaming machine described in the above-mentioned publication, the extension time and the number of times of opening are predetermined or substantially guarantee the occurrence of the next big hit. However, there is no great difference in the results predicted by this, and there is no element that makes the player nervous or throbbing, and the game lacks in game characteristics.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and allows a player to continue a game while maintaining a sense of expectation and nervousness and to enjoy the real pleasure of pachinko even when a jackpot state ends. The aim is to provide a pachinko machine that can be used.

[0008]

For this purpose, the present invention provides a general electric opening / closing prize port when a game ball passes through a pass gate provided on a game board and a normal symbol display fluctuates and stops at a predetermined symbol. Is released, and when a game ball wins in the regular electric opening and closing winning opening, the special symbol display is displayed in a variable manner, and if the fluctuation stops at a specific symbol, it becomes a big hit state, and the opening time of the normal electric opening and closing winning opening is extended after the end of the big hit In a pachinko gaming machine equipped with an extended mode, the extended mode is terminated by displaying a special symbol display on the special symbol display during the extended mode at an unspecified time to indicate the end of the extended mode. An extension mode ending means is provided. Further, the present invention is characterized in that in the above-mentioned pachinko machine, the extension mode is terminated after a display for notifying the termination of the extension mode is made a predetermined number of times. Further, the present invention is characterized in that the pachinko machine is provided with extension mode continuation frequency setting means for randomly setting the extension mode continuation frequency after the end of the big hit.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of a pachinko machine according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the front of a game board 1 of this pachinko machine. In the figure, reference numeral 2 denotes a winning opening, 3 denotes an upper left winning opening, 4 denotes an upper right winning opening, 5 denotes a lower left winning opening, and 6 denotes a lower right winning opening. Each time a prize is won, a certain number of prize balls are paid out to the player. 7, 8, 9 and 10 are windmills, 11 and 12 are decorative lamps, and 15 is an out hole.

Reference numerals 20 and 21 denote pass gates for outputting an electric signal by operating a sensor when a game ball falling on the surface of the game board 1 passes through the inside, and 22 denotes a normal symbol display comprising a 7-segment light-emitting display. , 23 are a pair of wing pieces 24, 2
4 is a normal electric opening and closing winning opening which is opened and closed by the operation of a solenoid, 25 is a special symbol display made of a color liquid crystal display, 26 is a game ball which is extremely opened by opening a rectangular door plate 27 forward by the operation of the solenoid. A special winning opening 28 called a V zone is further provided at the center of the inside of the winning opening 26. .., 29, 29...
1 is a ball passage storage display lamp for storing that a game ball has passed and displaying the fact by lighting up the lamps. It is a ball winning memory display lamp.

As shown in the block diagram of FIG. 2, each device provided on the game board 1 has a CPU, an RA,
It is connected to a microcomputer consisting of M, ROM and I / O. That is, a sensor for detecting that a game ball has passed through the passage gates 20 and 21;
3, a winning ball sensor at the motorized opening / closing large winning opening 26, a solenoid for opening and closing the ordinary symbol display 22 and the ordinary motorized opening / closing winning opening 23, and a special symbol display 2
5. A solenoid or the like for opening and closing the motorized open / close winning port 26 is connected.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a routine for opening and closing the ordinary electric winning opening 23 in the pachinko gaming machine, and the operation will be described with reference to FIG. When a hit ball passes through the passing gate 20 or the passing gate 21, the symbol (number) displayed on the symbol display 22 usually fluctuates at a high speed in the order of 4 → 6 → 8 → 3 → 5 → 7, and after several seconds, the symbol (number) becomes 3-8. Stop at any unspecified symbol. And the stop symbol happens to be 3 or 7
If it is, it is determined whether or not the mode is the extension mode by the value of the extension mode continuation number N described later, and the wing pieces 24, 24 of the normal electric opening / closing winning opening 23 are moved for 0.5 seconds or 5 seconds.
Open for a second. In the initial state, N = 1 and the normal electric opening / closing winning port 23 is opened for only 0.5 second.

Therefore, according to the flowchart of the jackpot generating routine shown in FIG. 4, when it is detected in step a that a game ball has won the ordinary electric opening / closing winning opening 23, N> 1? Is determined, and if N> 1, N-1 is executed in step c, and then steps d to g are performed.
Are displayed on the special symbol display 25 in accordance with the numerical values of N through steps h to k. That is, when N> 3, a character as shown in FIG. 5 appears and the extension mode is continued, and when N = 3, the extension mode is performed twice more by the character as shown in FIG. Is displayed. When N = 2, a similar character is used to display an advance notice indicating that the extension mode is completed one more time. When N = 1, an advance notice is displayed using a character as shown in FIG. The mode end is displayed.

At step l, a special symbol display 25
The numbers 0 to 9 and symbols such as ☆ ◆ ◎ （(hereinafter referred to as symbols) are displayed in three columns so as to flow from top to bottom, and the display changes after a few seconds in the left column, right column, Stop in the order of the center row, and as shown in FIG. 1, when the stopped symbol happens to be a specific symbol such as “777” in which the same symbol is aligned in a horizontal line with a probability of several hundredths (step m) and a jackpot process is executed. Then, at step n, the door plate 27 of the special winning opening 26 is opened by the operation of the solenoid, so that a situation in which a hit ball is extremely easy to enter the special winning opening 26 is obtained, and at the same time, the decorative lamps 11 and 12 are opened.
Blinks, a sound effect is emitted from a speaker (not shown), and a jackpot process such as displaying a jackpot celebration on the special symbol display 25 is executed. When 10 hit balls enter the special winning opening 26 or 29 seconds have passed, the door plate 27
Is closed, but during that time, when it is detected that a hit ball has entered the specific winning opening 28, the door plate 27 is opened again to make it easier to enter the hit ball again. Such opening and closing of the door plate 27 is repeated up to 16 times. Therefore, the player can obtain many prize balls at one time of the jackpot state. In addition,
If no big hit is found in step m, the process returns to step a.

Then, when the above-mentioned jackpot state is over, in step o, the numerical value of the extension mode continuation number N is randomly selected from an appropriate number such as 10, 30, 50, 200 times, for example. The special symbol display 25 indicates that the mode has shifted to the extension mode in step p.

Thus, the value of the extension mode continuation number N is 1
When the transition to the extension mode is made with the above integers, when the stop symbol of the ordinary symbol display 22 becomes 3 or 7 in the ordinary electric accessory routine of FIG. 3, the time during which the ordinary electric open / close winning device 23 is in the open state is 0. .5 seconds to 5 seconds. Then, every time a game ball wins in the ordinary electric open / close winning device 23, N-1 is made in step c. Therefore, after the jackpot is over, for a while, the extended mode in which the open time of the ordinary electric open / close prize device 23 is extended is set, so that the game balls can easily win.
Since the period is randomly selected and determined in step o, when N = 3, an extension mode end notice is displayed as shown in FIG. 6, and when N = 1, as shown in FIG. An extension mode end display is made and the extension mode is ended, and the opening time of the ordinary electric opening / closing winning device 23 is returned to 0.5 seconds.

As described above, in the present invention, the extension mode continuation frequency setting means for randomly setting the extension mode continuation frequency after the end of the big hit is provided, and the time when the extension mode is terminated is not constant, and the character is displayed on the special symbol display. Appears and a display indicating that the extension mode ends is made, so that the extension mode is terminated, so that the player does not know when the extension mode ends even during the extension mode, so it is not a jackpot state At times, the game can be continued while maintaining tension and nervousness.

In addition, the extension mode end display and the extension mode end notice display indicate the appearance of a character as described above, as well as the appearance of a character during the fluctuation display of the special symbol display as shown in FIG. Or suggest
Alternatively, the background may be displayed by making the color of the background significantly different from the normal time, or by blinking the background.

[0019]

As described above, the pachinko gaming machine of the present invention is
When the game ball passes through the passage gate provided on the game board, the normal symbol display fluctuates and the normal electric opening and closing winning opening is opened when stopping at a predetermined symbol, and when the game ball wins the ordinary electric opening and closing winning opening. When the special symbol display is displayed in a fluctuating manner and the fluctuation is stopped at a specific symbol, the jackpot will be in a jackpot state and after the jackpot ends, the opening time of the normal electric opening and closing winning port will be extended, and in the pachinko gaming machine equipped with the extension mode, during the extension mode The special symbol display is provided with an extension mode ending means for ending the extension mode by giving a display indicating the end of the extension mode at an unspecified time due to the appearance of a character or a change in the background. Can not continue when the extended mode, which is advantageous to the player, will end, so the game can be continued with expectation and tension. There is an effect of increasing the game of the game.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a gaming board showing a pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a game control system of the pachinko gaming machine of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a control system of an ordinary electric accessory of the pachinko gaming machine of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a control system of a jackpot generating process of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a display example of a special symbol display of the pachinko machine of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a display example diagram of a special symbol display of the pachinko machine of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a display example diagram of a special symbol display of the pachinko machine of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a display example of a special symbol display of the pachinko machine of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game board 20 and 21 Passing gate 22 Ordinary symbol display 23 Ordinary electric opening and closing prize opening 25 Special symbol display 26 Electric opening and closing big winning prize

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. When a game ball passes through a pass gate provided on a game board, a normal symbol display fluctuates and is displayed when it stops at a predetermined symbol. When a game ball wins, a special symbol display is displayed in a fluctuating manner, and if the fluctuation stops in a specific symbol, it becomes a big hit state, and after the big hit ends, the pachinko game machine with an extension mode in which the opening time of the normal electric opening and closing winning port is extended An extension mode ending means for terminating the extension mode by giving a display indicating the end of the extension mode at an unspecified time due to the appearance of a character or a change in the background on the special symbol display during the extension mode. Pachinko machine. 2. The pachinko game machine according to claim 1, wherein the extension mode is terminated after a display for notifying the termination of the extension mode is made a predetermined number of times. 3. The pachinko gaming machine according to claim 1, further comprising extension mode continuation number setting means for randomly setting the extension mode continuation number after the end of the big hit.