JP2000254279A - Board game device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a board game device for easily handling game elements and simply managing itself while partially using actual game elements for actual feeling. SOLUTION: At least a delivery part 3 and an operation part 5 in front of a board game base are made as real materials and others are formed with an image screen 2. A delivery means delivers the real materials Br of game elements to the delivery part 3 and an image control means for controlling an image on the image screen 2 moves and displays an image Bi of the game elements on the image screen 2 of a game board.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an on-board game device for moving a game element such as a pachinko ball or a medal on a game board by using an image screen such as a liquid crystal display or a CRT on the front of an on-board game table.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional pachinko gaming machine in an on-board game machine has a difficulty in managing a game due to clogging of balls or the like during a game.

Therefore, in recent years, a digital pachinko machine which displays an image in which an image of a pachinko ball falls down like a real pachinko ball on a liquid crystal panel surface formed of a liquid crystal screen without using an actual pachinko ball (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-305169). Gazette)
But it is spreading.

[0004] The digital pachinko machine does not handle actual pachinko balls, so that there is no clogging of balls and the game management is simple.

[0005]

However, since the image of the pachinko ball simply moves without using a real pachinko ball,
There is a problem that a player lacks a sense of realism and lacks a sense of realism in playing, and the fun is reduced by half.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and an object thereof is to partially use an actual game element and provide a feeling of realization. In providing the upper game device.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, at least the payout unit and the operation unit on the front surface of the on-board game console are made real, and the others are constituted by video screens. The payout means pays out the actual game element to the payout section, and the image control means for controlling the image on the video screen is an on-board game device for moving and displaying the image of the game element on the video screen of the game board.

[0008] In addition to being able to form an extremely free and varied image on the video screen, the payout portion of the board of the on-board game table is actually used, and the actual game elements such as pachinko balls and medals are paid out. The player acquires a real game child, the play has a real feeling, and the interest in the play is further promoted. In addition, by using a video screen other than the payout means, clogging of balls and the like can be avoided as much as possible, and the handling of game elements is easy and game management is easy.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the game board of the on-board game console is composed of a video board surface consisting of a video screen and a real board surface, and a real game element moves on the real board surface, and an image of the video board surface is displayed. Is an on-board game device, characterized in that image control means for controlling the movement of the game player image on the video board surface.

[0010] Of the front of the on-board game table, the game board is composed of an image board surface and a real board surface, and the actual game player moves on the real board surface. The image of the game element is moved and displayed, and the movement of the game element can be continuously shown without giving any unnaturalness. Balls are prevented from being clogged on the video screen, and the handling of the game element is easy and the management is easy. .

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the on-board game device according to the second aspect, a real game element dropped on an upper edge of the video board surface which is in contact with the real board surface from below is taken into the back side of the video board surface. An intake is provided, and a detecting means for detecting a falling state of the actual game element is provided at the intake, and the image control means temporarily displays an image of the actual game element based on the detection result of the detecting means. A trajectory when falling on the screen is calculated, and an image of the game element is moved and displayed along the trajectory.

The actual game element that has fallen to the upper edge of the video board surface is taken into the intake port, shifted to the image of the game element on the video screen, and moved and displayed along the calculated trajectory. The player can eliminate unnaturalness in which the game elements appear to be moving continuously, and the game elements disappear suddenly. Further, since the real game elements do not pass on the video board surface, it is possible to prevent the video screen from being damaged.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the on-board game device according to the third aspect, the actual game player taken into the intake port is provided on an upper edge of the real board surface in contact with the video board surface from below. A discharge port is provided on the front side of the actual board for discharging.

By discharging the actual game element taken into the inlet to the front side of the board, the image is shifted to the image of the video screen once and the image of the moved and displayed game element is shifted to the actual game element again. The player can be made to fall, so that the player can be seen as if the player is continuously falling, so that unnaturalness can be prevented.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a game board comprising a video screen surface comprising a video screen and a real board surface, and a falling space defining member having a translucent property for defining a falling space of a game element in front of the game board. A game element inlet provided at an upper portion of the video board to take in a game element falling in the falling space; and a game element provided at a lower portion of the video board to discharge a game element taken in from the game element inlet. A game child discharge port, and an image control means for calculating a trajectory from when the game child is taken into the game child intake port until the game child is discharged at the game child discharge port, and displaying the calculated trajectory on a video screen. Is an on-board game device comprising:

The image of the game element is moved and displayed on the image screen along the calculated locus on the image screen instead of the actual game element taken into the game element intake, and the image is shifted to the image of the image screen once. The moving and displayed image of the game element is transferred to the actual game element again and the physical board surface is dropped, so that the player can be seen as if the game element is continuously falling, giving unnaturalness. Can not be.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a game board comprising an image board surface comprising an image screen and a real board surface, and a fall space defining member having a light transmitting property for defining a fall space of a game element in front of the game board. A game element inlet provided at an upper portion of the video board to take in a game element falling in the falling space; and a game element provided at a lower portion of the video board to discharge a game element taken in from the game element inlet. A plurality of game element discharge ports, a selection means for selecting one game element discharge port from the plurality of game element discharge ports, and a guide means for guiding a game element to the game element discharge port selected by the selection means And an image control means for displaying an image in accordance with a result of the selection by the selection means on the image board.

The game elements taken into the game element inlet are guided by the guide means and are discharged from the game element discharge port selected by the selection means. Can freely display an image in accordance with the selection result, which can be varied and interesting.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the on-board game device according to the sixth aspect, a storage means for storing game elements taken in from the game element intake port, and a game element stored in the storage means. And drop control means for dropping one by one onto the guide means.

The stored game elements are dropped one by one into the guide means, and are discharged from the game element discharge port selected by the guide means. be able to.

[0021]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko gaming machine 1 according to the present embodiment.

On the front of the pachinko gaming machine 1, a rectangular game board is entirely composed of a liquid crystal board 2 composed of a liquid crystal screen, and a horizontal left and right real ball supply tray 3 protrudes below the liquid crystal board 2. Further, a real surplus ball tray 4 protrudes therebelow, and a real operation handle 5 is disposed on the right side of the surplus ball tray 4. In addition, there is a coin slot 6 and the like.

The liquid crystal panel surface 2 which forms the entire game board has a rail 1
1, the nail 12, the windmill 15, the winning opening 16, the out ball entrance 17 and other objects and the board design are all displayed as images, and the pachinko ball Bi of the image is displayed in a moving manner.

When the actual pachinko ball Br is dispensed from the ball payout port 3a to the actual hitting ball supply tray 3, and the hitting ball supply tray 3 is filled with the premium pachinko ball Br, the surplus balls go to the surplus payout port 4a. It is guided and paid out to the surplus ball tray 4. That is, except that the entire game board is the liquid crystal board surface 2, there are prize ball payout means such as the actual hitting ball supply tray 3, the surplus ball receiving tray 4, etc., and the real operation handle 17.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a control system of the pachinko gaming machine 1. The computer 20 is controlled by the computer 20. The computer 20 includes a detection signal of a coin insertion sensor 21 for detecting a coin inserted into the coin insertion slot 6, and a hit ball for detecting a real pachinko ball Br supplied from the hit ball supply tray 3. The detection signal of the detection sensor 22, the operation signal of the operation handle 17, and the like are input.

The hit ball collecting means 25 for collecting the pachinko balls Br supplied from the hit ball supply tray 3, the prize ball payout means 26 for discharging the pachinko balls Br, which are prize balls, from the ball payout port 3a to the hit ball supply tray 3, and surplus. A control signal is output from the computer 20 to each of the surplus ball dispensing means 27 that discharges the surplus pachinko balls Br from the dispensing port 4a to the surplus ball tray 4, and is driven and controlled.

Further, the computer 20 outputs an image control signal to the image processing means 28, and causes the image processing means 28 to form an image on the liquid crystal panel 2.

A schematic control procedure by the control system will be described with reference to a flowchart of FIG. First, it is determined whether or not a coin has been inserted by the coin insertion sensor 21 (step 1). If a coin has been inserted, the process proceeds to step 2 and the number of initial real pachinko balls B corresponding to the value of the inserted coin is determined.
r is paid out to the hit ball supply tray 3.

Then, in the next step 3, it is determined whether or not the operation handle 17 is operated. If the operation handle 17 is operated and the operation is performed, the process proceeds to step 4, where the pachinko ball Br is present in the hit ball supply tray 3. It is determined based on the detection signal of the hit ball detection sensor 22 whether or not this is the case.

If there is no pachinko ball Br to be hit, the play ends, and if the pachinko ball Br is in the hitting supply tray 3, the process proceeds to step 5 and the actual pachinko ball Br is collected by the hit ball collecting means 25 without being actually hit. Instead, in step 6, an image is displayed in which the pachinko ball Bi of the image is launched and moves on the liquid crystal panel surface 2.

On the liquid crystal panel 2, the pattern of the imaged panel changes partially, and the pachinko ball Bi of the projected image is changed.
Is moved and displayed as if it were falling while hitting an obstacle such as a nail. Then, when the pachinko ball Bi enters the winning opening of the image, a winning is achieved.

In the next step 7, it is determined whether or not there is a prize.
When there is a prize, the process proceeds to step 8, and the real ball pachinko ball Br is paid out to the hit ball supply plate 3 by the premium ball payout means 26,
Return to step 3.

If the operation handle 17 is still operated in step 3, as long as the pachinko ball Br is present in the hitting ball supply tray 3 (step 4), the actual pachinko ball Br is collected (step 5), and the pachinko ball of the image is collected. Bi is launched and moved and displayed (step 6).

As described above, since the game board is entirely constituted by the liquid crystal board 2, the game board can be represented by a variety of extremely free images. Since the ball is not clogged on the game board of the liquid crystal panel 2 and the actual pachinko ball Br can be paid out and collected to the hitting ball supply tray 3, the actual pachinko ball Br can be easily handled and the game management can be performed. Easy.

Since the actual pachinko ball Br is paid out to the hitting ball supply tray 3, the player obtains the actual pachinko ball Br, and the play becomes more real and the interest in the play is further promoted.

Next, a pachinko gaming machine according to another embodiment.
30 will be described with reference to FIGS. The components other than the gaming board are the same as those of the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to the embodiment, and the same members are denoted by the same reference numerals.

In the game board, a large liquid crystal board surface 32 is formed in the center of the real board surface 31 in a horizontally long rectangular shape, and the real board surface 31 and the liquid crystal board surface 32 are formed.
It is composed of On the actual board surface 31 around the liquid crystal board surface 32, there are provided real rails 33, a number of nails 34, a windmill 35, a winning opening 36, and an out ball entrance 37 for guiding a real pachinko ball Br that has been punched out.

Various images such as a combination of symbols are displayed on the liquid crystal panel 32, and the pachinko balls Bi of the images are moved and displayed. 5 and 6 show the structure near the liquid crystal panel surface 32. FIG.

As shown in the sectional view of FIG. 5, a transparent glass plate 40 is stretched in front of the liquid crystal panel surface 32 and the actual panel surface 31, and a space through which the pachinko ball Br passes is formed between the transparent panel 40 and the actual panel surface 31. ing.

The liquid crystal panel 32a has a front liquid crystal panel surface 32 made of a glass plate.
40, a portion of the rear real board surface 31 facing the liquid crystal panel 32a is opened, and the guide plate 41 is fitted with a predetermined gap between the liquid crystal panel 32a and the pachinko ball Br is A space passing through the back side of the liquid crystal panel 32a is formed.

A guide plate 42 paired with the upper end of the guide plate 41 is also provided on the upper edge of the liquid crystal panel 32a.
An intake port 43 for taking in the pachinko ball Br is formed between 1 and 42. An outlet 44 is formed between the lower edge of the liquid crystal panel 32a and the lower end portion of the guide plate 41 bent forward.

That is, the pachinko ball Br that has fallen from the real board surface 31 to the upper edge of the liquid crystal board 32a is taken into the intake port 43, guided by the guide plate 41, bypassed the back side of the liquid crystal board 32a, and discharged to the discharge port 44. Appears on the physical board surface 31 below and falls.
Therefore, looking at the front of the game board from the front,
The actual pachinko ball Br that has fallen on the 32
At the upper edge of the liquid crystal panel 32, it disappears.

At the lower end of the actual board surface 31 in contact with the intake port 43 of the pachinko ball Br, a large number of light receiving elements 45 are arranged in two rows vertically and horizontally. When each of the light receiving elements 45 is shielded from light by the pachinko ball Br passing thereover, it detects this and outputs a detection signal to the computer.

When the pachinko ball Br falls on the upper edge of the liquid crystal panel 32, the light-receiving element in the middle of the passage of the pachinko ball Br
45 detects light blocking by the pachinko ball Br, and the computer can calculate the approximate trajectory when the pachinko ball Br falls on the liquid crystal panel 32 from the arrangement of the light receiving element 45 that has detected the light blocking.

The computer outputs a control signal to the image processing means to move and display the pachinko ball Bi of the image on the liquid crystal panel 32 along the calculated trajectory. Therefore, the pachinko ball B of the image is displayed on the liquid crystal panel 32 by the image processing means.
i is moved and displayed along the calculated trajectory.

As shown in FIG. 6, the liquid crystal panel is
The pachinko ball Br that has fallen on the upper edge of the 32a
The pachinko ball Bi of the image is moved and displayed on the liquid crystal panel 32a along the calculated trajectory instead of passing around the back side of a. When the pachinko ball Bi of the image reaches the lower edge of the liquid crystal panel 32a and disappears, at the same time, the actual pachinko ball Br that has bypassed the back side of the liquid crystal panel 32a appears from the lower edge of the liquid crystal panel 32 and falls on the real panel 31. .

Therefore, as long as the player looks at the game board from the front, it appears that the pachinko balls passing through the liquid crystal board surface 32 are continuously falling. There is no unnaturalness that the pachinko ball disappears suddenly.

On the liquid crystal panel surface 32, a real pachinko ball Br
Since the liquid crystal does not pass through, it is possible to prevent the liquid crystal screen from being damaged. The liquid crystal panel surface 32 occupying a large proportion of the game board can be represented by an extremely free and varied image, which can attract the player's interest.

It is also conceivable to change the discharge location where the actual pachinko sphere is discharged to the real disk surface after the real pachinko sphere is captured on the back side of the liquid crystal disk surface. FIG. 7 shows a mechanism in that case. A rotating body 62 protrudes from a side of a vertical passage of a funnel-shaped guide plate 61 to regulate a passage, and constitutes a storage device 60 for storing pachinko balls Br.

The rotating body 62 has a circular surface cut out in four arcs at the diameter of the pachinko sphere Br, and the pachinko sphere Br, which has fallen from above and has been fitted into the notch, is approximately the same as the rotating body 62. It is dropped downward by 90 degree rotation. Therefore, the pachinko balls Br accumulated above the rotating body 62 fall one by one by rotating the rotating body 62 at every 90 degrees.

At the lower end of the vertical passage of the guide plate 61, a pair of left and right orbit changing plates 63, 63 are suspended so as to be swingable left and right. An outlet 65 is provided. The orbit changing plates 63, 63 are swung toward any one of the four outlets 65, and a passage leading to one outlet 65 is formed.

The discharge location can be changed by changing the falling trajectory of the pachinko ball Br that has fallen in this way. The computer selects which of the four outlets 65 is used to discharge the pachinko ball Br, and the rotating body 62 and the orbit change plates 63, 63 are driven by the computer, and the selected outlet 65 is selected. The pachinko ball Br is discharged from the.

On the liquid crystal panel on the front side, the selected outlet 65
Is displayed in such a manner that the pachinko ball Bi of the image falls. Therefore, there is a great change in the movement of the pachinko ball to the left and right, which can greatly interest the player.

A winning opening is arranged below a certain outlet 65,
The pachinko ball Br discharged from the discharge port 65 can be set so as to increase the probability of winning, and can be made more interesting.

On the liquid crystal panel, the pachinko ball Bi of the image is displayed.
Can be variously displayed, for example, by displaying another image such as Amida lottery while moving or not displaying.

The proportion and location of the liquid crystal panel surface in the game panel can be set variously. For example, if the lower half of the game board is the liquid crystal panel surface, the pachinko balls captured on the back side at the upper edge of the liquid crystal panel surface will not be discharged to the front side again, so it is only necessary to collect them immediately, and the handling of pachinko balls is easy. It will be easier.

The trajectory of the pachinko ball of the image moving and displayed on the liquid crystal panel is free. Therefore, the image of the pachinko ball falling on the pachinko ball while hitting them is displayed by displaying the nail or windmill of the image on the liquid crystal panel. If a prize hole is provided, a prize ball can be paid out.

In the above embodiment, the pachinko ball falls on the game board for the pachinko game machine, but instead of the pachinko ball, a medal such as a coin or the like or a flat plate-shaped game element is used. It can also be applied to on-board gaming machines.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a control system of the pachinko gaming machine.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a control procedure in the control system.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a pachinko gaming machine according to another embodiment.

5 is a sectional view taken along line VV in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a front view of an essential part showing a liquid crystal panel surface and its vicinity.

FIG. 7 is a main part front view of a pachinko gaming machine according to another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

Br: real pachinko sphere, Bi: pachinko sphere of image, 1
... Pachinko machine, 2 ... LCD panel, 3 ... Ball supply tray, 4
… Excess ball tray, 5… Operation handle, 6… Coin slot,
11 ... rail, 12 ... nail, 15 ... windmill, 16 ... winning opening, 17 ... out ball entrance, 20 ... computer, 21 ... coin insertion sensor,
22: hit ball detection sensor, 25: hit ball collecting means, 26: premium ball payout means, 27: surplus ball payout means, 28: image processing means, 30 ...
Pachinko machine, 31 ... actual board surface, 32 ... liquid crystal board surface, 33 ... rail, 34 ... nail, 35 ... windmill, 36 ... winning opening, 37 ... out ball entrance, 40 ... glass plate, 41, 42 ... guide plate, 43 … Intake, 44
... outlet, 45 ... light receiving element, 60 ... storage device, 61 ... guide plate, 62 ... rotating body, 63 ... orbit changing plate, 64 ... partition plate, 65 ... outlet.

Claims (7)

[Claims] At least a payout portion and an operation portion of the front of the on-board game table are real, and the others are constituted by a video screen, and a payout means pays out the actual game element to the payout portion. An on-board game device, wherein the image control means for controlling the movement of the game element is displayed on the video screen of the game board. 2. An image control means for controlling a game board of a game board on a board, comprising a video board surface comprising a video screen and a real board surface, wherein a real game element moves on the real board surface, and controlling an image of the video board surface. Wherein the image of the game player is moved and displayed on the video board. 3. An intake port for taking in the actual game player element falling from the lower edge of the video board surface in contact with the physical board surface from below to the back side of the video board surface is provided. Detecting means for detecting a falling state is provided, and the image control means calculates a trajectory when the actual game element falls on a video screen based on the detection result of the detecting means, and along the trajectory. The on-board game device according to claim 2, wherein the image of the game element is moved and displayed. 4. A discharge port for discharging the actual game element taken into the intake port to the front side of the physical board surface is provided at an upper edge of the physical board surface in contact with the video board surface from below. An on-board game device according to claim 3. 5. A game board comprising a video board surface comprising a video screen and a real board surface; a light-transmissive fall space defining member for defining a fall space of a game element on a front surface of said game board; A game element intake provided at an upper portion to take in a game element falling in the falling space, and a game element exit provided at a lower portion of the video screen to discharge a game element taken in from the game element intake, Image control means for calculating a trajectory from when the game element is taken into the game element intake port to when the game element is discharged at the game element discharge port, and which displays the calculated path on a video screen. On-board game device. 6. A game board comprising a video board surface comprising a video screen and a real board surface; a light-transmissive fall space defining member for defining a fall space for a game element on a front surface of said game board; A game element inlet provided at an upper portion for taking in a game element falling in the falling space; and a plurality of game element outlets provided at a lower portion of the video board surface for discharging game elements taken in from the game element inlet. Selecting means for selecting one game element discharge port from the plurality of game element discharge ports; guiding means for guiding a game element to the game element discharge port selected by the selection means; An on-board game device, comprising: image control means for displaying an image according to a selection result of the selection means. 7. A storage means for storing game elements taken in from the game element intake port, and a drop control means for dropping the game elements stored in the storage means one by one to the guide means. 7. The on-board game device according to claim 6, wherein: