JP2002253740A - Reel type slot machine and its production display method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To give internal prize-winning information without obstructing the player of a reel type slot machine. SOLUTION: When a game is started, the blank or the internal prize winning of a prize-winning bonus point is decided electronically. When a prescribed number of rotation reels are stopped by pressing of respective stop buttons and the prescribed number of patterns stopped on a prize-winning line T correspond to the prize-winning bonus point, a dividend value fixed to this prize- winning bonus point is put out. The reel type slot machine like this displays information on an internal prize-winning (a big bonus BB, a regular bonus RB, a small bonus or blank) on a liquid crystal display device in the operation timing of a specific button. Since the internal prize-winning information is displayed in the timing desired by the player, the information is given without obstructing the player.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a turning-type slot machine, and more particularly to a turning-type slot machine for displaying an internal hit state and a method for displaying the effect.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A spinning-type slot machine installed in a game center, a pachinko parlor, or the like has three rows of rotating reels (rotating drums) having various designs printed on a surface thereof, and each of them has a reel driving motor ( When the player presses the stop button corresponding to the reel, the reels rotated by the stepping motor are stopped at the timing when the player presses a stop button corresponding to the reels. For example, when three winning symbols shown in FIG. This is a game machine that refunds a certain number of medals (payout medals) and grants a bonus game right.

[0003] The above-mentioned spinning-type slot machine is electronically controlled. When a medal is inserted and a start lever is operated, the spinning reel starts spinning, and at the same time, whether the current game is a losing or a winning (winning role). , And the hit is a big hit (hereinafter, "BB" indicating a big bonus)
That. ) Or a middle hit (hereinafter referred to as “RB” indicating a regular bonus) or a small win or a small win in a single winning prize, or replay (replay)
It is determined in advance as a random number (this is called "internal hit").

[0004] However, even if the player wins inside the BB, RB, small role, or single winning small portion, if the player cannot operate the stop button to align the role symbols shown in FIG. Will be lost. For this reason, the player operates the stop button while watching the symbol on the surface of the rotating reel, but in the spinning slot machine, a predetermined number of symbols passing through the stop line from the moment the stop button is pressed, For example, when there is a symbol constituting a winning symbol among the four symbols, the rotating reel is controlled so that the symbol stops on the stop line.

[0005] Further, since the turning-type slot machine is provided with means for informing the player whether or not the inside has hit, for example, a speaker, a lamp, a liquid crystal display device, etc. If you have the skill to stop the winning symbol, you can get the payout medal when you win inside.

FIG. 7 is a view showing an example of an effect display screen normally displayed on the liquid crystal display device when the player hits the inside of the rotary type slot machine. In this example, when the start lever is operated and the reels start spinning, a screen a in which the baseball ground is viewed from above is displayed, and a transition is made on this screen a to a screen b in which the batter hits the ball thrown by the pitcher. And
When the internal hit is BB, a home run is performed (screen c). When the internal hit is RB, a hit is performed (screen d). By looking at which of the screens c to e, the player can guess whether or not an internal hit has occurred and what the hit has been.

[0007]

When the cycle from coin insertion (or betting) to the end of the game by pressing three stop buttons becomes shorter and shorter, the player becomes accustomed to the operation of the spinning slot machine game. The effect display shown in FIG. 7 cannot be performed from the beginning to the end in one game. Since it is not always possible to continue the effect display of the internal hit of the previous game until during the current game, the effect display is canceled in a state where the above cycle becomes short and the effect display becomes impossible.

A skilled player having a short cycle described above often concentrates his or her gaze on the symbol of the rotating reel, and does not always see the effect display of the inside hit. Therefore, there is no problem even if the effect display is canceled. For the skilled player, it is easy to stop the spinning reel by putting the role symbols in the above four symbols, so the information required for them is a staging display with high expectations of BB and RB winning,
Frequently shifting the line of sight to the normal effect display only hinders the game for the player.

The BB and RB can be carried over from the next time onward.
Once B hits inside, his right is held until the symbols are actually aligned. ) And these BB and RB
Is designed so that when the pattern is lost, the alignment of the symbols becomes a specific loss pattern called a so-called reach eye, so simply looking at this specific pattern, BB or R
B can be inferred to have hit the inside, and there is no need to see the effect display on the liquid crystal screen for the inside.

However, even a skilled player cannot remember the rules of the above-mentioned specific pattern, and may not notice the bonus winning. Further, there is a case where it is desired to confirm whether the internal hit is BB or RB between games. However, according to the conventional method of displaying the internal hitting effect of the spinning type slot machine, the effect display is performed only at a predetermined timing during the game, and the effect display is canceled without permission on the game machine side. Therefore, there is a problem that the internal hit cannot be confirmed at the timing intended by the player.

An object of the present invention is to provide a spinning-type slot machine and an effect display method capable of notifying a display of an internal hit effect at a timing intended by a player.

[0012]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The object of the present invention is to, when a game is started, electronically determine one internal hit selected from a losing or a winning combination, and a predetermined number of rotating reels are pressed by pressing a stop button. When stopping, when the combination of symbols of the predetermined number of rotating reels stopped on the pay line corresponds to the winning combination that has been hit inside, a spinning-type slot for paying out a payout value determined for the winning combination. In the machine, when a specific operating device is operated, any one information is selected from an information group including the information directly corresponding to the one internal hit and the other information directly corresponding to the other internal hit. This is achieved by providing effect display means for effect displaying the one piece of information under predetermined conditions.

[0013] Preferably, in the above, the specific operation device is a predetermined operation button among the existing operation buttons, and the effect display means displays the information of the inside hit as an image, The image is an image that indirectly expresses the information of the inside hit.

The above object is also achieved in that when a game is started, one internal hit selected from a losing or a winning combination is electronically determined, and when a predetermined number of rotating reels are stopped by pressing a stop button, respectively. An effect display method of a spinning-type slot machine that pays out a payout value determined for a winning combination when the combination of symbols for stopping the predetermined number of rotating reels stopped on the winning line corresponds to the winning combination that has been hit inside. In, select any one information from an information group including information directly corresponding to the one internal hit and other information directly corresponding to the other internal hit, and, under a predetermined condition, the one information This is achieved by displaying at the timing when the specific operating device is operated.

The internal hit information is normally displayed only at a timing set in advance on the game machine, but in the present invention, the information is also displayed at a timing when the player operates a specific operation device. With the configuration, even if the normal effect display is missed, it is possible to confirm the state of the internal hit at a timing desired by the player. Further, even if the player operates the specific operation device, the effect display is not necessarily started, and the effect display may be started under predetermined conditions. For example, if the internal hit is a loss, even if the player operates the specific operation device, it is possible to set such that no effect display is started under certain conditions.

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a turning type slot machine according to one embodiment of the present invention. Slot machine 1
On the front of the vehicle, the viewing windows 2a, 2b, 2 of the three rows of rotating reels.
The liquid crystal display device 3 as a sub-display device and the illuminations 4a and 4b are installed on the upper part of the liquid crystal display device c. Under the viewing windows 2a to 2c of the slot machine 1, there are provided stop buttons 5a, 5b, 5c corresponding to rotating reels, a start lever 6, a bet button 7, and a medal insertion slot 8. A medal tray 10 for storing payout medals discharged from the medal discharge port 9 is provided.

On the surface of the viewing windows 2a to 2c of the three rows of rotating reels, a total of five stop lines (winning lines) T1 to T5 of three horizontal lines, right diagonal lines and left diagonal lines are provided. The number of effective stop lines can be increased according to the number (the number of bets).

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a control device provided inside the slot machine 1. The slot machine control device is divided into a main board 20 and a sub board 40, and the main board 20 shares only the progress control of the slot game, and the sub board 40 is based on data acquired from the main board 20. The effect display control on the liquid crystal display device 3 and the sound output control synchronized with the effect display are performed.

On the main board 20, a main CPU 21 for executing arithmetic processing for game progress control, a clock generator 22 connected to the CPU 21, a ROM 23 storing a game program, and a RAM 24 storing various data are connected.
, A random number generator 25, an input port 26, an output port 27, and a data transmission circuit 28, and the data transmission timing of the data
A timing control circuit 29 is provided for controlling independently of U21.

The input port 26 has a start lever 6, a bet button 7, three stop buttons 5a, 5b, 5c shown in FIG. 1, and medals for detecting inserted medals, paid out medals, and the like. The sensor 30 is connected to a reel sensor 31 for detecting the position of the rotating spinning reel, and is also connected to other buttons and switches operated by the player of the slot machine 1.

The output port 27 has three reel drive motors 32, a medal payout motor 33, and illuminations 4a,
4b, and various lamps attached to the slot machine 1 are connected.

The sub-substrate 40 stores a sub-CPU 41 for performing processing for effect display and sound effect control, a clock generator 42 connected to the CPU 41, a control program, various video data, audio data and the like. A memory 43;
A data input circuit 44 for receiving data sent from the main board 20 side, a display control circuit 45, and a sound output circuit 46 are provided. The liquid crystal display device 3 is connected to the display control circuit 45, and the sound output circuit Speaker 47 at 46
Is connected.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the main board 20 when playing a game with the slot machine having the above-described configuration. When the player inserts a medal through the medal slot 8 in FIG. 1 or presses the bet button 7,
If the decision result in the step S1 is YES, a step S1 is reached.
Proceed to 2 and wait for the operation of the start lever 6. When the start lever 6 is operated by the player, step S
The process proceeds from Step 2 to Step S3.

In step S3, the main CPU 21 performs an internal lottery on what to win the current game. In other words, in this internal lottery, the main CPU 21 determines whether the current game is lost or the winning combination is BB, RB, or small combination shown in FIG. 6 by the output of the random number generator 25 shown in FIG. Is determined in advance based on In this determination, for example, the probability of occurrence of BB is set to about 1/300, the probability of occurrence of RB is set to about 1/250, and the probability of occurrence of small combination is set to about 1/15, but these probabilities can be changed. .

Since the probability of occurrence of BB and RB is small,
Once this is won internally, the right will be carried over until the player can arrange the BB or RB symbols (Three '7' or Three 'BAR': see Figure 6). ing. For this reason, when the process proceeds to step S3 in a state where the BB or RB has been carried over from the previous time, the internal lottery is not performed again, and the previous winning contents B
B or RB is used.

When the internal lottery in step S3 is completed, next, in step S4, three motors are driven to rotate the respective rotating reels. Then, in step S5, the stop processing of the corresponding rotating reel is performed in accordance with the timing of pressing the three stop buttons 5a, 5b, 5c. At this time, the stop line T
If there is a symbol that constitutes a winning symbol among the four symbols that continuously pass through, the symbol is stopped on the stop line.

When the three spinning reels are stopped and three symbols are aligned, it is determined whether or not the three symbols have the role symbols shown in FIG. 6, that is, whether or not a medal payout or prize has been won (step S1). S6) If there is a prize, the next step S7
, And then proceeds to step S8. If no prize has been won, the process skips step S7 and proceeds to step S8.

In step S8, it is determined whether or not a winning has been achieved but the replay winning symbol is present. If the symbol is a replay winning symbol, the process returns to step S2 to turn on the replay lamp and notify the player of the replay. At the same time, it waits for the start lever operation again. If it is not a replay winning, the current game processing is ended.

In the above-described game processing using the main board 20, event occurrence data such as pressing of the bet button 7 and the stop buttons 5a, 5b, 5c connected to the main board 20 and internal hit data are shown in FIG. The data is sent from the data sending circuit 28 to the data input circuit 44 of the sub-board 40. This data transmission is performed at substantially the same time as each button press, internal lottery, etc., but the timing is slightly shifted by the timing control circuit 29 so as not to be completely synchronized with the game progress timing.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the procedure of the effect display process performed by the sub CPU 41 of the sub board 40 that has received the data from the main board 20. The sub CPU 41 waits until a specific button is pressed (step S1).
1). Usually, three types of bet buttons, one bet button, two bet buttons, and a MAX bet button, are prepared, but since the two bet buttons are used less frequently, In the embodiment, the two-sheet bet button is also used as a specific bet button, that is, an “internal hit effect display button”.
Is started.

When the specific button is pressed, the process proceeds from step S11 to step S12, and first, a screen A shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the liquid crystal display device 3 (FIG. 1). Then, in the next step S13, it is determined whether or not the internal hit is a big hit (BB). If it is a BB, the process proceeds from step S13 to step S14, and the screen A is replaced with the screen A in FIG.
Is displayed on the screen. On this screen B, a home run has been hit, and by looking at this, it can be inferred that the player has hit the inside of the BB.

If the result of the determination in step S13 is not BB, the process proceeds to step S15, and it is determined whether or not the internal hit is a medium hit (RB). If it is RB, the process proceeds from step S15 to step S16, and a screen C shown in FIG. This screen C
In this example, a hit has been hit, and by looking at this, the player can infer that the player has hit the RB internally.

If the result of the determination in step S15 is not RB, the process proceeds to step S17, and it is determined whether or not the internal hit is a small role or a loss. In the case of a small role or a loss, the process proceeds from step S17 to step S18, and a screen D shown in FIG. This screen D is a strikeout, and by looking at the screen D, the player can guess that the small role or loss has hit inside.

As described above, in the slot machine of the present embodiment, the player can display an internal hit state on the liquid crystal display device at the timing intended by the player (that is, the timing at which the specific button is pressed). Therefore, necessary information can be transmitted without disturbing the player.

In this embodiment, the effect display is performed on the liquid crystal display device at an arbitrary timing. However, the display of the internal contact state is not limited to the liquid crystal display device.
It is also possible to effect display by changing the lighting timing of a, 4b or the like. Although the existing two-bet button is also used as the specific button, a dedicated button may be separately provided.

Further, in the present embodiment, the indirect image obtained by tracing the internal hit information to baseball on the effect display screen is used to give the player a sense of expectation.
A screen for directly displaying BB or RB may be used. In this indirect effect display or direct effect display, with a 100% probability, instead of displaying the effect of the small role when hitting the small role and not displaying the effect of the BB when hitting the BB, With the required probability, when a small role is won, the player plays a role such as BB, or even plays a role, but plays a losing effect. Performance can be improved.

[0038]

According to the present invention, the information on the inside hit can be displayed to the player without disturbing the player, since the information on the inside hit is displayed at a timing desired by the player.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a turning type slot machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a control device of the turning-type slot machine shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a control processing procedure of a main CPU shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a control processing procedure of a sub CPU illustrated in FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an effect display screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 shows a general winning combination of a slot machine.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an effect display screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 time slot machine 2a, 2b, 2c Peep window of rotating reel 3 Liquid crystal display 5a, 5b, 5c Stop button 6 Start lever 7 Bet button 8 Coin slot T1 to T5 Winning line (stop line)

Claims (5)

[Claims] When a game starts, an internal hit selected from a losing or a winning combination is electronically determined, and when a predetermined number of rotating reels are stopped by pressing a stop button, a winning line is determined. When the combination of the stopped symbols of the predetermined number of rotating reels corresponding to the winning combination corresponding to the internal winning corresponds to the winning combination, the specific operating device is operated by the payout slot machine that pays out a payout value determined for the winning combination. Then, any one information is selected from an information group including the information directly corresponding to the one internal hit and the other information directly corresponding to the other internal hit, and the one information is determined as a predetermined one. A slot-type slot machine comprising an effect display means for effect display under the following conditions: 2. The specific operation device according to claim 1,
A spinning-type slot machine characterized in that predetermined operation buttons are used among existing operation buttons. 3. The slot machine according to claim 1, wherein the effect display means includes a liquid crystal display device that displays the information of the inside hit as an image. 4. The slot machine according to claim 3, wherein the image is an image that indirectly represents the internal hit information. 5. When a game is started, an internal hit selected from a losing or a winning combination is electronically determined, and when a predetermined number of rotating reels are stopped by pressing a stop button, a winning line is determined. In the effect display method of the spinning-type slot machine for paying out a payout value determined for the winning combination when the combination of the stopped symbols of the predetermined number of rotating reels stopped corresponds to the winning combination winning inside, An arbitrary information is selected from an information group including information directly corresponding to one internal hit and other information directly corresponding to the other internal hit, and the one information is subjected to a specific operation under predetermined conditions. The effect display method of the turning-type slot machine, wherein the display is performed at a timing when the container is operated.