JP2002066077A - Game hall managing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a right and fair game hall managing system in which a consumption tax or the like paid by a player is fairly paid by a game hall side with responsibility. SOLUTION: This game hall system is provided with plural game machines 1 and 2 for playing a game with game media and the game media are lent by a prepaid card purchased by the player with a prescribed money amount. Then, the prepaid card is purchased at a card vending machine 21 and a money amount for which the tax to be collected from the player at a game hall is added is fed at the time.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system in a game hall in which a game machine typified by a ball game machine such as a pachinko game machine and a rotary game machine such as a slot machine are installed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A business form in a gaming hall in which a gaming machine such as a pachinko gaming machine is installed is as follows.

[0003] That is, a game medium is lent to a player by paying a predetermined amount to a game hall. The player enjoys playing the game on the gaming machine based on the loaned medium. Further, in a game using a gaming machine, a possibility of acquiring a prize medium is obtained by executing a predetermined special game. Here, in the case of trying to end the game while securing the prize media, or in the case where the prize media must be returned once according to the agreement of the gaming hall, the player will be rewarded with the prizes etc. provided in the gaming hall. It is exchanged, and in some cases, so-called storage for returning to the game hall once for the next game is performed.

Conventionally, as a form of lending game media, it has been general to obtain a game medium corresponding to the amount by putting a predetermined amount into a cash sand placed on a side of the game machine. However, in recent years, once a card of a predetermined amount has been purchased at a card vending machine installed in a gaming hall, and then the card is inserted into a card sand provided on a side of the gaming machine to obtain a predetermined gaming medium. Is becoming commonplace.

[0005] The game medium is usually a game ball used for a pachinko game machine or a game coin used for a torso type game machine.

[0006] Here, at present, when a game ball is used as a game medium, at present, 25 game balls are lent per 100 yen. In addition, in the case of using game coins as game media, 5 yen per 100 yen
The game coins are lent out.

[0007] On the other hand, when exchanging prizes after the end of a game or the like, it is general that the prizes are exchanged for a predetermined prize at an exchange rate taking a consumption tax into account.

[0008]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional system, the sales of a game hall are generated by lending game media in principle, so the consumption tax should be recorded at the time of lending. In this case, the consumption tax was collected only at the time of exchange for a predetermined prize after the game was over.

[0009] Therefore, the consumption tax that the player should pay is originally imposed only on the player who exchanged the prize, and not imposed on the player who has used up all the game media and ended the game.

[0010] In such a system, not only does the gaming hall need to pay the consumption tax that the player should originally pay, but the gaming hall must pay the consumption tax.
There is a possibility that tax-unclear accounting treatment may be performed, and this may hinder the sound and equal playing style of the game hall.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides a game hall system which can be modified to a preferable system such as a consumption tax which is originally paid by a player and paid by the game hall responsibly. The main purpose is to

[0012]

Means for Solving the Problems Hereinafter, means suitable for solving the above-mentioned objects and the like will be described separately. In addition, a function and effect specific to the corresponding means will be added as necessary.

Means 1. In a game hall system in which a plurality of gaming machines in which a game is played by a game medium are provided, and the game medium is lent by a prepaid medium purchased by a player for a predetermined amount, the prepaid medium is provided in a game hall. A game hall system characterized in that a tax to be collected from a player is taken into account and purchased by either an external tax system or an internal tax system.

According to the means 1, the player purchases a prepaid medium before playing a game on the gaming machine. Of course, as a form of the game hall, a prepaid medium may be required only in some of the game machines. As the prepaid medium, for example, there is a card type. Then, when the player purchases the prepaid medium, the system pays the amount of the prepaid medium plus the tax to be collected from the player at the gaming hall. As a result, the gaming hall does not take over the tax that the player should originally pay, and the unfairness of each player is eliminated as compared with the case where the tax is added when the premium is exchanged.

Means 2. The gaming hall system according to claim 1, wherein the prepaid medium is purchased by a vending machine provided in the gaming hall.

According to the means 2, since the prepaid medium is sold to the vending machine and the tax is collected at the time of the purchase at the vending machine, the tax can be collected without fail, and The connection with the hall management computer enables comprehensive management of sales and taxes.

Means 3. The gaming hall system according to claim 2, wherein the vending machine sells the prepaid medium at an amount obtained by adding a tax to be collected from the player to the amount of the prepaid medium.

According to the means 3, by adding the tax amount to the amount of the prepaid medium, the value of the prepaid medium can be kept unchanged and the confusion of the player can be prevented. Alternatively, there is no need to change the payout device for the game medium on the gaming machine side.

Means 4. The gaming hall system according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the added amount of the tax in the vending machine can be changed and set.

According to the means 4, even if the tax rate is changed in accordance with the revision of the law, it is possible to withstand the change without replacing the vending machine, which leads to a reduction in the burden on the game hall.

Means 5. 3. The gaming hall system according to claim 2, wherein the vending machine is set so that an amount obtained by adding a tax to be collected from the player to the amount of the prepaid medium is 1000 yen or a natural multiple thereof. .

According to the means 5, since the prepaid medium can be purchased at a sharp amount of money such as 1000 yen or 2000 yen regardless of the tax rate, it is possible to maintain the advantage that the prepaid medium can be purchased only with banknotes. The tax can be collected. However, in this case, even if the prepaid medium is purchased for 1,000 yen, its value is 100.
It is not equivalent to 0 yen. For example, if the tax rate is 5%, 952.
Since the value is 38 yen, it is necessary to change the method of lending the game medium via the prepaid medium from the conventional method.

Means 6. The gaming hall system according to any one of means 1 to 5, wherein the sales amount of the prepaid medium and the tax amount can be managed by a hall management computer in an identifiable state.

According to the means 6, the sales of the prepaid medium and the tax are distinguished from each other by, for example, being stored individually in the hall management computer, etc. You can easily know the amount of the tax you have.

Means 7. 7. The game hall system according to claim 6, wherein the information on the sales of the prepaid medium is transmitted from a hall management computer to an external general management organization.

According to the means 7, since the information on the sales of the prepaid media in the game hall is transmitted to the external general management organization, the tax-unclear accounting processing in the game hall is eliminated, The sound and equal business of the game hall can be realized.

[0027]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a schematic configuration of a gaming hall in which a plurality of gaming machines such as pachinko gaming machines 1, 1,.

As is well known, the pachinko gaming machine 1 fires the game balls stored in the upper plate 3 to a predetermined game area 5 by operating the operation handle 4, and to various winning ports installed in the game area 5. , A predetermined prize ball is paid out to the upper plate 3 by winning. The type of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is typically provided with a symbol display means called a so-called digi-pachi and an operating port for starting the display change, but it is also possible to use other types of pachinko gaming machines. Not even. The pachinko gaming machine 1 includes a main control board (not shown), a power supply board, a payout control board, a display control board, a voice control board, and the like. The main control board controls the game content of the pachinko gaming machine 1 and the like. I have. Other payout control boards and the like receive control signals from the main control board and control the individually assigned devices. For example, the payout control board receives a prize detection from the main control board and drives a payout device (not shown) to pay out the prize balls and pay out the lending balls.

A card sand 10 is provided on the side of the pachinko gaming machine 1. The card sand 10 is provided in one-to-one correspondence with the pachinko gaming machine 1, and a card insertion slot 11 is provided. A prepaid card is inserted into the card insertion slot 11, and a lending switch 6 provided on the upper plate 3, for example, of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is operated thereon.
Only five are paid out and the balance of the prepaid card is rewritten. When the ejection switch 7 is operated, the prepaid card is ejected.

As is well known, the spinning-type gaming machine 2 is provided with a plurality of reels 1 by operating a start lever 12 after inserting a predetermined number (for example, an arbitrary number up to three) of game coins.
By rotating the reels 3 and operating the stop switches 14 corresponding to the respective reels 13, the reels 13 are stopped, and a game corresponding to the symbol at the time of the stop is executed. At that time, if the predetermined symbol stops on the activated line, a prize coin is paid out. In this embodiment, the spinning-type gaming machine 2 is also provided with a lending switch 15 and a discharging switch 16 for the card sand 10, and by operating the lending switch 15, a lending coin for a predetermined amount is paid out. From 10
Only 5 coins are paid out per 0 yen, the balance of the prepaid card is rewritten, and when the ejection switch 16 is operated, the prepaid card is ejected.

The prepaid card used in the card sand 10 is sold at a card vending machine 21 installed in a game hall. The card vending machine 21 is provided with a money insertion slot 22. Further, a plurality of types of prepaid card samples having different amounts are displayed and the amounts are displayed. A selection switch 23 is provided immediately below the samples. It is provided corresponding to each. Further, a discharge port 24, a currency return port (not shown), and the like are provided. Therefore, the player inserts bills or the like into the card
After being inserted, the selection switch 23 corresponding to a desired prepaid card sample can be selected and operated, whereby the prepaid card is discharged from the discharge port 24.

In the present embodiment, when the player purchases a prepaid card at the card vending machine 21, the consumption tax is set as an external tax so that the consumption tax corresponding to the sales can be collected from the player. Is required. For example,
For a prepaid card of 1000 yen, an insertion of 1050 yen is required, and for a prepaid card of 2000 yen, an insertion of 2100 yen is required. Input port 22
For example, both bills and money can be inserted, but bills and money may be inserted from different slots. In addition, in order to cope with a change in the consumption tax rate, a display may be provided in the card vending machine 21 so that the amount of money including the consumption tax is displayed so as to be changeable for the convenience of the user.

In the management room of the game hall, a hall management computer 31 is provided. The hall management computer 31 is connected to all devices in the gaming hall, such as the gaming machines 1 and 2, the card sand 10, the card vending machine 21, and other security cameras and counters. Hall management computer 3
1 is provided with a control computer unit such as an input unit, a calculation unit, a storage unit, a processing unit, a setting unit, a command unit, an output unit, etc., and a display unit such as a display and an operation unit such as a keyboard. . And the hall management computer 3
The device 1 grasps the operating status and the like of each device based on the detection signals from the various devices, and transmits a control signal to the various devices to control the devices under certain conditions.

In the present embodiment, the number of cards sold according to the type of prepaid card is transmitted from the card vending machine 21 to the hole management computer 31, and the hole management computer 31 can know the number of cards sold for each type of prepaid card. it can. On the other hand, in the hall management computer 31, the amount per one card is stored in the storage unit for each type of prepaid card, and the consumption tax rate can be set by the setting unit. For example, if the consumption tax rate is 5%, if "5" is entered in the tax rate input field, the consumption tax amount as a foreign tax is automatically determined. By outputting the tax rate change signal to the card vending machine 21 to automatically change and display the required amount of the consumption tax in the card vending machine 21, a large-sized card having a large number of card vending machines 21. The change setting of all the card vending machines 21 can be easily and reliably performed in the game hall.

The hall management computer 31 accumulates, for example, the number of prepaid cards sold from the card vending machine 21, the amount per card, and the consumption tax amount, and thereby, by type, all sales, all types, and all The sales amount, type, and all consumption tax amounts are stored. With these, sales management of the prepaid card is performed.

In this embodiment, the hall management computer 31 and the external management computer 41 are communicably connected. The external management computer 41 is a computer possessed by an administrator who manages each game hall in an integrated manner. In the present embodiment, the external management computer 41 is possessed by an external management organization for ensuring sound business of each game hall. . Therefore, the sales management result of the prepaid card is transmitted from the hall management computer 31 to the external management computer 4.
1 can be checked for a mismatch between the management data among them.

In this embodiment, the card vending machine 2
In item 1, when purchasing a prepaid card of 1,000 yen, an amount of 1050 yen is required. That is, the sum of the card purchase amount and the consumption tax is displayed as the required amount. Although the consumption tax is recorded as 5% of the sales amount in the present embodiment, it can be changed as appropriate according to the change of the consumption tax rate. The request amount at 21 is set to be changed.

On the other hand, the hall management computer 31 stores the sales amount and the consumption tax separately in the storage unit while associating the sales amount with the consumption tax. Therefore, the sales amount and the consumption tax amount in the game hall are clearly grasped. Further, the sales amount and the consumption tax amount are also transmitted to the external management computer 41, where they are also managed collectively, so that fraud in tax processing at a later date can be prevented.

Of course, each gaming hall can be managed by an external management organization in an integrated manner. For example, the hall management computer 31 and the general management computer 51 of the external management organization
May be connected through a communication line such as a telephone line to transmit data for identifying the sales amount and the consumption tax.

Incidentally, the present invention is not limited to the contents described in the above embodiment, but may be carried out, for example, as follows.

(A) In the above embodiment, the card vending machine 21 is configured so that the consumption tax is collected as a foreign tax when the player purchases the prepaid card at the card vending machine 21. You may make it collect as internal tax. For example, the purchase price of a prepaid card is 1000
If you have a card with a consumption tax of 5% and a charge of 1,000 yen
The loan amount is 952.38 yen and the consumption tax is 47.6.
It can be 2 yen. And the loan amount is 95
If it is 2.38 yen, the number of game media to be lent will be a fraction, but the card sand 10 will be rounded up and lent.
Alternatively, if the gaming machines 1 and 2 are set, there is no disadvantage to the player. According to such a configuration, the player does not need to pay a fraction such as 50 yen for the consumption tax,
There is an advantage that the convenience of the player is improved.

(B) In the above embodiment, the card vending machine 21 is configured so that the consumption tax is collected as a foreign tax when the player purchases the prepaid card at the card vending machine 21. May be reduced. For example, conventionally 25 game balls are lent per 100 yen, but it is possible to rent 24 balls and deduct one as the consumption tax. This can be realized by changing the payout devices and the payout control boards of the gaming machines 1 and 2. Of course, the number of payout units by the payout devices of the gaming machines 1 and 2 can be changed to withstand future changes in the consumption tax rate, etc., or to withstand the business form of the gaming hall that does not collect consumption tax. It is better to

(C) Each of the card vending machines 21 is provided with a consumption tax setting operation section, and the setting operation section is used to change the consumption tax rate, change the setting of the internal tax or the foreign tax, and set whether or not to collect the consumption tax. May be performed.
By adding such a function, it is possible to flexibly cope with the business mode of the game hall and easily cope with a change in the tax rate.

(D) In the above embodiment, a prepaid card is used as an example of a prepaid medium. However, the present invention is not limited to a card, but may be another recording medium such as an IC chip.

(E) In the above embodiment, the prepaid card is sold by the card vending machine 21, but the function may be added to the card sand 10. Specifically, the card sand 10 is provided with an insertion slot for bills and the like, and when a bill or the like is inserted, a prepaid card is ejected from the ejection slot. The game is immediately played by pushing the purchased prepaid card into the ejection slot as it is. This is a method in which media is lent. According to such a configuration, the player can use the gaming machines 1 and 2
The prepaid card can be purchased on the spot, and if the prepaid card is used up on the spot, the recorded content of the prepaid card can be reused by appropriately rewriting the recorded contents, which is advantageous in terms of cost.

[0046]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide a game hall system which can be modified to a preferable system such as a consumption tax which is originally paid by the player and paid by the game hall responsibly.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a schematic configuration inside a game hall according to an embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1. Pachinko game machine as a game machine, 2. Spindle type game machine as a game machine, 10. Card sand as a vending machine,
21: card vending machine as vending machine, 31: hall management computer, 41: external management computer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A game hall system in which a plurality of gaming machines in which a game is played by a game medium are provided, wherein the game medium is lent by a prepaid medium purchased by a player for a predetermined amount. A game hall system characterized in that a tax to be collected from a player at a game hall is taken into account and purchased by either an external tax system or an internal tax system.