JP2001017614A - Combination type game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the amusement of a game by storing a plurality of identifying information tables which includes a plurality piece of identifying information to be an opportunity to generate a prize state which is advantageous to a game player, selecting the identifying information table by means of prescribed number of unit games and displaying it in a variable display means. SOLUTION: When the hit ball passes through a gate 32 or 33, three-digit patterns to be displayed in a pattern display device 31 are changed for a prescribed time. When the combination of the stopped patterns becomes a 'bit hit' state, a special game operation port 314 is opened. When the hit ball enters the opened port 34, numerical patterns on a 4×4 matrix liquid crystal display screen 30 are turned on at four places. In this case, a random number is increased. When a random number value is >='5', for example, a processing for returning the random number to zero is executed. Besides, when the hit ball passes through the gate 32 or 33, the random number value is stored in a RAM, the value of a numerical pattern table corresponding to the random number value is read and it is displayed on the liquid crystal display screen as the numerical pattern.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display device which emits a predetermined number of game balls to establish one game and turns on when the shot game balls enter. The present invention relates to a combination-type gaming machine that gives a score corresponding to a combination when is established.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional combination type gaming machine, 16 entrances are arranged in a row at the lower edge of a game board, and a 4.times.4 matrix winning display lamp is provided at the center of the game board surface. Are known. In this combination type gaming machine, when a game ball enters the entrance, a prize display lamp corresponding to the entrance is lit, and the lit state of the prize display lamp is to emit 16 game balls. A predetermined score is given when the game is aligned vertically, horizontally, or diagonally during the game, and after the game is over, a prize ball according to the score is paid out. In addition, a row of prize indicator lamps are provided below the 16 ball entrances in a row at the lower edge of the game board, and a score is given when four of the prize indicator lamps are turned on adjacent to each other. There is also known a combination type gaming machine. As an invention related to this combination-type gaming machine, a "Pachinko-type game machine" disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. Hei 4-23552 is known.

[0003]

The combination type gaming machine is different from a normal pachinko machine in that not only a game ball is simply put into a ball entrance but also a game ball is made to enter a ball entrance by one game. There is an interest in scoring as high as possible. However, it has been determined in advance that which of the entrance holes will be turned on, which of the prize display lamps will be lit, and there has been a problem that the establishment of the combination is simple. In view of this problem, the combination gaming machine of the present invention has been made to provide a more interesting combination gaming machine.

[0004]

A combination gaming machine according to the present invention displays identification information relating to a manner of entering a plurality of entry areas in a unit game, and determines a prize mode based on a combination of the identification information. In the combination gaming machine to be determined, a plurality of identification information tables including a plurality of the identification information are stored, the identification information table is selected for each of a predetermined number of the unit games and displayed on the variable display means, and the identification information table is It is characterized by including a combination of the identification information that triggers the occurrence of the prize mode advantageous to the player. Here, the variable display means is:
Any type of display may be used as long as the identification information is displayed in response to a ball entering a plurality of ball entry areas below the game board, and various displays and lamps such as a liquid crystal display, a fluorescent lamp, a CRT display, an LED, and a lamp. It is conceivable to use a configuration such as
Further, the selection of the identification information table is performed every time a predetermined number of games elapse, and the table displayed on the variable display means is selected.
The display means is configured in a matrix form, and the numerical symbols arranged in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line are changed and displayed every time a predetermined game elapses, and the numerical symbols for fixing the displayed numeric symbols to form a combination are different. It is conceivable to display in color and change the display location every time a predetermined game elapses.

[0005] In the combination type gaming machine of the present invention having the above-described configuration, for example, a predetermined position of the display means is turned on when a shot game ball enters a plurality of ball entry areas below the game board, and the predetermined position is lit. When the combination is established, a score is given and the game ball is paid out, but the combination for giving the score is changed every time a predetermined number of games elapse. Thereby, even if the ball enters the same ball entry area, the predetermined position of the display means that is turned on works as an element of a different combination.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Next, in order to further clarify the present invention, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to some preferred embodiments. (Embodiment 1) As shown in FIG. 1, a game board 2 on which various parts for a game are mounted is mounted on an upper portion of an opening of a main body frame 1, and a glass front is attached to one end of a front surface of the main body frame 1. The metal frame 3 in which is inserted and the front plate 4 are vertically mounted adjacent to each other so as to be able to rotate forward. An upper ball tray 5 for receiving a game ball and a premium ball paid out in the game is attached to the front surface of the front plate 4, and a prize overflowing from above the upper ball tray 5 on the front surface near the lower end of the main body frame 1. A lower ball tray 6 for receiving a ball is attached, and upper and lower ball trays 5 and 6 have a ball release lever 5a for taking out a prize ball.
And 6a are respectively provided. At the upper right end of the upper ball tray 5, a fired number indicator 7 for displaying the number of game balls fired on the game board 2 is provided. An overload indicator 8 that lights up when the ball is full is embedded. When the handle 9 is operated, the game ball is launched on the game board 2 and the score indicator 10
Indicates the score obtained when a combination of symbols is established. A 16 consecutive entry port 11 is arranged at the bottom of the game board 2, and a prize symbol display 12 is provided below the 16 consecutive entry port 11.
Is provided, and the number of the number corresponding to the entrance of the 16 consecutive entrances 11 into which the game balls enter is turned on. The 16 consecutive ball entrances 11 have 16 winning detection switches 11 for detecting a ball entry.
a to 11p, and the handle 9 has a built-in touch switch 9a for detecting that the player is touching.

On the back side of the main body frame 1, as shown in FIG.
An electronic control unit 20 for controlling various operations throughout the game, such as starting and ending a game, controlling the launch of a game ball, calculating the number of effective launch balls, displaying a winning, calculating a winning score, and paying out a prize ball; , And an excess amount detection switch 22 for detecting that the prize ball discharged to the player has filled the gutter.

As shown in FIG. 3, on the game board 2, as shown in FIG. 3, a liquid crystal display screen 30 is provided at the upper part of the center of the board, and a symbol display device 31 composed of three 7-segment LEDs below the same. Two gates 32 and 33 on the left and right of 31,
The accessory operation port 34 and the accessory operation port 3 below the symbol display device 31
4. Two entrances 35 and 36 on the left and right of 4, and liquid crystal display screen 3
Two lamp windmills 37 and 38 are provided on the left and right of 0, two windmills 39 and 40 are provided on the left and right ends of the board surface, and a number of obstacle nails 41 partially shown are provided. The liquid crystal display screen 31 is configured in a matrix of 16 squares of 4 × 4 in length and width, and as will be described in detail later, 16 types of numeral patterns 1 to 16 are displayed on these 16 squares. The game balls that pass or enter the gates 32 and 33, the accessory operation port 34, and the entrance ports 35 and 36, respectively, are ball detection switches 32a,
33a, 34a, 35a and 36a respectively.

[0009] As shown in FIG.
The CPU 20a, the ROM 20b, the RAM 20c,
The external input circuit 20d, the external output circuit 20e, and the liquid crystal controller 20f are configured as a logical operation circuit in which they are interconnected by a bus 20g. This electronic control unit 20
The external input circuit 20d includes the touch switch 9 described above.
a, winning detection switches 11a to 11p, ball out detection switch 21, excess amount detection switch 22, and ball detection switches 32a to 36a are also connected. External output circuit 2
At 0e, the number-of-firings indicator 7, the score indicator 10, the winning symbol indicator 12, the symbol indicator 31, the electromagnetic solenoid 34b for opening and closing the accessory opening 34, the lamp windmills 37 and 38, and the like are also provided. Each is connected. Further, a liquid crystal display screen 30 is connected to the liquid crystal controller 20f. In the present embodiment, when a game ball passes through the gate 32 or 33, the three-digit symbol displayed on the symbol display device 31 fluctuates for a predetermined time, and when the stopped symbols are the same three digits, a so-called "big hit" state is established. The object working port 34 is opened,
When a game ball enters the opened accessory operation port 34, the predetermined numeral pattern on the liquid crystal display screen 30 is illuminated in four places. However, since this technique is well known in the related art, it will not be described in detail.

Next, the operation of this embodiment having the above configuration will be described.
The description will be made mainly on the control of the liquid crystal display screen 30 according to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, 9 and 10.
The processing shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, 9 and 10 represents only processing related to control of the liquid crystal display screen 30 among various processings performed by the electronic control device 20.
It is periodically executed by a method such as a hardware interrupt. Here, first, a "winning symbol random number updating routine" shown in FIG.
Will be described. When the process executed by the CPU 20a shifts to this routine, the value of the random number Rd is incremented (step S100), and subsequently, it is determined whether or not the incremented value of the random number Rd is "5" or more (step S110). Here, when an affirmative judgment of “5” or more is made, a process of returning the value of the random number Rd to zero is performed (step S120), and thereafter or in step S120.
If a negative determination is made in step 110 that the value of the random number Rd is less than “5”, the process goes to “return”. By executing the processing shown in the processing steps S100 to S120, the value of the random number Rd repeatedly generates five types of values 0 to 4 for each interrupt. The value of the random number Rd is cleared to zero in an initial state such as when the power is turned on.

In the "display random number storage routine" shown in FIG. 6, the CPU 20a first executes a process of scanning the input states of the ball detection switches 32a and 33a via the external input circuit 20d (step S150). When the scanning process makes an affirmative determination that the game ball has passed the gate 32 or 33 on the game board 2 (step S1).
60: YES), the above-described process of storing the value of the random number Rd as the memory M1 in the RAM 20c is performed (Step S).
170) After this, or if a negative determination is made in step S160 that the game ball has not passed at the gate 32 or 33, the process goes to "RETURN" to end the processing of this routine. By executing the processing shown in steps S150 to S170, the game ball is moved to the gate 32 or 3
The value of the random number Rd, which is constantly updated, is stored in the RAM 20c as the memory M1 every time the signal passes through No. 3. still,
Each of the processes shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 is periodically executed every 2.048 ms in the present embodiment.

Next, a "numerical symbol display routine" shown in FIG.
When the processing executed by the CPU 20a shifts to the first step, it is first determined whether or not the game is over (step S20).
0). In the combination type game machine, 16 game balls are played on the game board 2
A game is established by firing on the
After executing processing such as firing of a plurality of game balls and paying out a prize ball corresponding to the score obtained in one game, the process proceeds to the next game. It is determined in step S200 whether or not it is immediately before shifting to the next game. Here, if a positive judgment is made that the game is final,
In the following step S210, a process of reading the value of the numerical symbol table corresponding to the value of the stored random number Rd in the memory M1 is performed. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 8, when the value of the random number Rd stored in the memory M1 is zero, Table 1 is used. When the value of the random number Rd is 1, Table 2 is used. In the case of Table 3, random number Rd
Is 3, the value of the table 4 is read, and when the value of the random number Rd is 4, the value of the table 5 is read. The tables 1 to 5 having four columns and four rows correspond to the liquid crystal display screen 30 configured in the 4 × 4 matrix described above.
The figures shown in the table are figures displayed on the liquid crystal display screen 30 as they are. When the values of any one of the tables 1 to 5 are read in the step S210, the CPU 20a performs a process of displaying the read numeric symbols on the liquid crystal display screen 30 by the liquid crystal controller 20f (step S220). Thereafter, or if a negative determination is made in step S200 that the game is not the final game, the process directly goes to "return".

In the "winning symbol lighting routine" shown in FIG. 9, the CPU 20a constantly scans the 16 winning detection switches 11a to 11p (step S250). If there is a winning ball, it is displayed on the winning symbol display 12. Numerical symbols on the LCD screen 30 corresponding to the numbers to be displayed are highlighted (lit)
Is performed (step S260). The CPU 20a executes the processes shown in the above-described routines at every interruption.
Each processing shown in the "score calculation routine" shown in FIG.

Here, it is determined that the game is over (see FIG. 1).
0: Step S300), which is immediately after the sixteenth game ball is detected by the winning detection switches 11a to 11p, unlike the last of the game described in the “numerical symbol display routine” of FIG. If an affirmative determination is made in step S300 that the game is over, it is next determined whether or not any of the vertical or horizontal numeric symbols are lit up side by side (step S310). When the affirmative determination is made that all the lamps are lit, a process of adding the score T by one for each of the lit columns is performed (step S32).
0). In other words, the score T is +2 if the number of columns in which all the numeric symbols in the vertical or horizontal rows are lit is two, and +5 if the number is five. In the following step S330, it is determined whether or not all the numeric symbols in the diagonal rows are lined up, and if an affirmative determination is made that they are lit, the score T is incremented by three by the number of the lit columns. The adding process is performed (step S340). In other words, the score T is increased by +3 when all the diagonal right or left diagonal numerical symbols are lit up side by side, and the score T is increased by 6 when all the rows are illuminated side by side. In this embodiment, the highest score in one game is 10
A limiting process is performed in which no addition is made even if there is more lighting. After executing the process shown in the "score calculation routine" of FIG. 10, the CPU 20a outputs the prize ball corresponding to the score to the external output circuit 20 to pay out the prize ball to the player.
A process for driving the solenoid via e to shift to the next game is executed.

According to the present embodiment described in detail above, the combination of the numerical symbols for achieving the score changes for each game. Thereby, even if a ball entry port that is easy to enter the ball 16 or a ball entry port that is difficult to enter the ball is determined by the disposition of the obstacle nails on the game panel 2 during one game. In this case, the score obtained for each game varies in a variety of games, and an excellent effect of making the combination-type gaming machine more interesting is achieved. Moreover, in the present embodiment, since the combination of the numeral symbols is determined by random numbers, there is an effect that the player can have a further sense of expectation. In the present embodiment, the combination of the numerical symbols for achieving the score according to the random numbers is changed for each game. However, the configuration may be changed without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, when the so-called "big hit symbol" of the same three digits is displayed on the symbol display device 31 in which the symbol displayed by passing through the gate 32 or 33 is changed, a score is established only during a predetermined number of games. It is also conceivable to display a combination of easy-to-use numeric symbols on the liquid crystal display screen 30.

(Embodiment 2) Next, an embodiment 2 in which numerical symbols are displayed in a 3 × 3 matrix will be described. As shown in FIG. 11, the combination game machine of the second embodiment assigns numbers 1 to 9 to the winning symbol display 50, that is, the same as the predetermined entrance of the 16 consecutive entrances 11 The liquid crystal display screen 51 is arranged in a matrix of 3 × 3 in length and width, and the combination of numeral patterns displayed on the liquid crystal display screen is changed for each game. The configuration is the same as that of the first embodiment. Example 2
In the combination type gaming machine, since the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal rows are composed of three numeral symbols, the same effects as those of the first embodiment can be obtained, and the effect that the score can be more easily established can be obtained. Have.

(Embodiment 3) Next, an embodiment 3 in which one game is established with nine game balls will be described. As shown in FIG. 12, the combination game machine according to the third embodiment is configured such that nine game balls are fired and one game ball is fired with nine lower ball entrances 60 of the game board 2 as nine consecutive entrances. Numbers 1 to 9 are assigned to the winning symbol display 61, and the liquid crystal display screen 62 is displayed vertically and horizontally.
The configuration is such that the combination of numeric symbols displayed on the liquid crystal display screen is changed for each game as a × 3 matrix, and other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment. In the combination game machine of the third embodiment, similar to the second embodiment, in addition to the effect of facilitating the achievement of the score, the excellent effect of shortening the elapsed time of one game to speed up the progress of the game. To play.

[0018]

According to the combination type gaming machine of the present invention, the combination of numeral symbols for achieving a score changes for each game. As a result, even if the ball enters the same entrance, the score obtained during one game changes variously for each game, and an excellent effect of making the combination type gaming machine more interesting is exhibited.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a combination game machine according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the combination gaming machine of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a game board of the combination game machine according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an electronic control unit of the combination gaming machine according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a winning symbol random number updating routine.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a display random number storage routine.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a numeral symbol display routine.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a correspondence relationship between a value of a random number and a table of numeric symbols.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a winning symbol lighting routine.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a score calculation routine.

FIG. 11 is a front view of a game board according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a front view of the game board according to the third embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 gaming board 11 16 consecutive entrances 12 winning symbol display 20 electronic control device 30 liquid crystal display screen 31 symbol display device 32, 33 gate

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A combination gaming machine for displaying identification information relating to a ball entry mode in a plurality of entry areas in a unit game and determining a prize mode based on a combination of the identification information, wherein: A plurality of identification information tables are stored, and the identification information table is selected for each of a predetermined number of the unit games and displayed on the variable display means. The identification information table is a trigger for generating the prize mode advantageous to the player. A combination gaming machine comprising a combination of the identification information. 2. A combination type gaming machine which displays a symbol related to a manner of entering a plurality of entrances in one game and enables a score to be established based on a combination of the symbols, wherein the symbol includes a plurality of the symbols. A combination game wherein a plurality of tables are stored, and the symbol table is selected for each predetermined number of games and displayed on a variable display means, and the symbol table includes a combination of the symbols that can easily achieve the score. Machine. 3. A plurality of entrances are provided below the game board,
The electric variable display means is turned on in response to the ball entering the entrance, and a predetermined score is given when the lighted electric variable display means establishes a predetermined combination, and a predetermined number of games are played. In a combination game machine in which one game is established by firing a ball on a game board surface, a plurality of tables defining the arrangement of the predetermined combination are stored, and the table is selected for each predetermined number of games, and A combination game machine displayed on a variable display means, wherein the table includes the predetermined combination that facilitates achieving the score.