JP2002315863A - Reel rotating type game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a player hardly feel fatigue even after long-time play by devising the locations of a display producing device and a reel rotating device. SOLUTION: Since a display producing device 104 is located almost on the central part of the front face of a pachinko-slot machine 1, information on a game is displayed at the ordinary glance position of the player, frequency to conventionally turn a glance to an upper part during play is reduced and the feelings of fatigue can be reduced. Further, since the display area of the display producing device 104 is made wider than the area of the front view of a reel rotating device 150, production information is extremely easily grasped.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention comprises a rotating body device provided with a plurality of rotatable rotating bodies, and a display device for notifying information relating to a game, wherein identification information displayed on each rotating body is provided. The present invention relates to a spinning-type gaming machine configured to control the operation of a gaming machine so that when a combination becomes a specific combination on a hit line, the operation of the gaming machine is controlled to be advantageous.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, games using a gaming machine called a pachislot machine have been actively performed. The front view of this gaming machine is shown in FIG.
It is as shown in. Three drums 800, 80
A rotating body device 1500 in which the first and second rotating units 802 are rotatable is provided at the center thereof. Then, this turning device 150
A display effect device 104 having a display area smaller than the area of the torso device 1500 in front view is disposed at the upper part of the display effect device 0. On both sides of the display effect device 104, the type of a role, the number of payout medals for the role, etc. Is drawn.

[0003] In actual play, the start lever 2
04 to start the rotation operation of each drum 800, 801 and 802, the first button 205, the second button 206,
When the third button 207 is pressed in an appropriate order, the respective drums 800, 801 and 802 are controlled to stop at a corresponding timing. Then, when a predetermined combination is formed on the winning effective line drawn on the transparent display window 600 provided on the front side of the turning device 1500 and the symbol is stopped, a big hit state is established, and a medal is received in the medal receiving unit 1100. At the same time as paying out, the speaker 1000 and the lamp display device 114 provided at the upper front part are driven and controlled to perform a hit effect sound and a hit lighting control, thereby exerting an effect.

The display effect device 104 performs various effect displays according to the game state while the game is in progress. For example, a message display for notifying a big hit or a battle between characters is performed. Is displayed to notify the possibility of a big hit.

As described above, since information necessary for a game, such as whether or not a big hit is to be displayed, is displayed on the display effect device 104, the player can use each of the drums 800, 801, The player plays the game while watching the effect display contents rather than the rotation state of 802 or the like. For this reason, the player's line of sight is directed to the upper part of the gaming machine for most of the period, and in a long-time game, fatigue may be felt.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-38287 discloses that
A pachinko machine has also been proposed in which an effect display device is provided at the lower part of a variable display device comprising a display device for variably displaying symbols, and this is provided at the center of the game board surface. Unlike the symbol display on the drum where the symbols are not easily grasped from to the stop, the scenes where the information on the lottery result is displayed easily in the temporary stop display and the re-lottery etc. often come,
Even with such pachinko machines, most of the time during the game,
The line of sight is pointed upward.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a conventional problem. In the case of a spinning-type gaming machine, the display effect device and the spinning device are arranged to improve the long-time game. The purpose is to reduce fatigue.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises a turning device having a plurality of rotatable rotating members, and a display device for notifying information relating to a game, In the turning-type gaming machine configured to control the operation of the gaming machine so that the combination of the identification information displayed on each rotating body becomes a state advantageous to the player when the combination becomes a specific combination on the hit line, The display device is arranged substantially at the center of the front of the gaming machine.

In the present invention, since the display device is arranged substantially at the center of the front of the gaming machine, information on the game is displayed at the normal line-of-sight position of the player. Feeling can be reduced.

[0008] The turning device may be arranged at an upper portion or a lower portion near the display device. It is preferable that the display area of the display device is made larger than the area of the turning device in front view.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In order to facilitate understanding of the present invention, an outline of the operation of the pachislot machine 1 will be described first, and then the features of the present invention will be described.

(Outline of Operation) FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a control block for explaining an outline of operation of the pachislot machine 1. The main control unit 200 is equipped with a microprocessor having a built-in CPU, has a table area 215 described below, and stores a control program and control data describing a series of control procedures. RAM where 216 and various work areas are formed
202 are provided as an integrated one-chip microcomputer. The counter area 216 is located in the RAM 202
Instead, a register group (not shown) inside the CPU may be used.

A pulse generator 209 is connected to the main controller 200 via an input port 203. The pulse generator 209 includes a start lever 204, a first button 2205, a second button 206, and a third button 20.
7 is connected, and is configured to transmit a rectangular pulse to the main control unit 200 side in response to operation of these levers and buttons.

The main control unit 200 has an output port 2
08, a display effect device 104 for displaying information related to the game, and three drive sources for rotating and driving three drums, which are rotating bodies to which symbol data composed of symbols and symbols are pasted. A certain motor 300, 3
01, 302, a lamp display device 114 for performing a lighting effect,
A sound effect output device 211 for producing an effect with sound effect output and a medal payout mechanism 310 for paying medals to a medal receiving unit at a big hit or the like are connected, and the main control unit 200 can control these devices. . The main control unit 200 is connected to a power supply circuit 212 for supplying power, and receives power supply.

FIG. 3 shows a counter area 216 of the RAM 202.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a big hit determination random number counter 400 formed in FIG. The big hit determination random number counter 400 sequentially counts up one by one in a predetermined cycle (for example, 4 msec) from an initial value “0” to a final value “299”. In this case, the count operation is repeated using a so-called infinite loop counter which is cleared by an initial value "0" and the count operation is repeated. The count operation of these infinite loop counters is controlled by the main control unit 200.

The big hit determination random number counter 400 is a counter used to determine whether or not a big hit state is generated. For example, a big hit state is generated when the counter value is "7". Does not create a jackpot situation.

FIG. 4 shows the table area 21 of the ROM 201.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a part of a command data table 410 stored in No. 5; This command data table 410
The command and the effect pattern are stored in association with each other.
After selecting the effect pattern, the main control unit 200 refers to the command data table 410 and transmits a command corresponding to the selected effect pattern to the display effect device 104 side. The display device 104 that has received the command performs a display effect according to the command. In addition, FIG.
Although the commands for the display effect device 104 are shown, the operation is controlled by transmitting the commands to other peripheral devices such as the lamp display device 114 and the sound effect output device 211.

FIG. 6 is a schematic explanatory view of the turning device of the pachislot machine 1 as viewed from the front, in which a display window 600 made of a transparent material is arranged at the foremost side. Drums 800, 801 and 802 as rotating bodies are configured to be rotatable in the direction X. Each drum 800,
801 and 802 are disc-shaped members in side view,
These are connected to the motor 30 directly or through a power transmission mechanism.
It is configured to be rotatable by the driving forces of 0, 301, and 302. Further, a symbol data 70 as shown in FIG.
0, 701, 702 are depicted. Each design data 70
0, 701 and 702 are plums 705 and cherries 70
6, symbols "7" 707, other types of numbers "7" 708, etc.
The symbol arrangement order in 702 is different.

When the start lever 204 is operated, the motors 300, 301 and 302 are driven and controlled, and
00, 801 and 802 are rotated. And the first
In response to the operation of the button 205, the second button 206, and the third button 207, each of the drums 800, 801, 8
Stop control is performed so that the rotation of No. 02 stops. At this time, the combination of the symbols of the drums 800, 801 and 802 is shown in FIG.
When a specific combination such as “777” is formed on the winning effective line of a to e shown in FIG. 7, a big hit occurs and the medal payout mechanism 310 is controlled to perform a medal payout operation. The effective hit lines are one (a), three (a, b, c), five (a, b, c, d, e) for insertion of one, two and three coins. ) Is set to increase.

Although not shown, medals are not inserted one by one, but a predetermined number of medals, for example, fifty medals, are secured (credited) ahead of a plurality of medals, and a predetermined number is set in response to the operation of the start lever 204. The number of secured lines can be reduced by several sheets, or the number of hit effective lines can be set with other operation buttons (not shown), and the number of secured lines is reduced according to the set number of effective lines per hit. ing.
In this case, the main control unit 200 also lights up a lighting unit (not shown) provided near one end of the set winning effective line so that the setting state of the winning effective line can be grasped. Have been.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the display effect device 104. The display effect device 104 includes a CPU 500.
A program ROM 510 as a recording medium on which an operation program and the like are recorded, and a RAM 52 as a work area
0, a command receiving unit 530 for receiving a command from the main control unit 200, an image data ROM 540 storing image data for effect display, and an LCD 550 comprising a liquid crystal display device. When a command from the main control unit 200 is received by the command receiving unit 530, the command is passed to the CPU 500, and the CPU 500 executes an operation according to the passed command. At this time, the CPU 500
However, a display effect is performed by fetching necessary image data from the image ROM 540 and displaying it on the display screen 551 of the LCD 550.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of an example of the display screen 551 of the LCD panel 550. If the character A and the character B compete against each other as shown in FIG. 10A and the character A wins, it is displayed that there is a high possibility that a big hit will come. Like "CHA
"NCE" or other message 1200
Is displayed on the display screen 551. In addition, information on various games is displayed and produced. In this way, the player's line of sight is directed to the display effect device 104 so that the information necessary for the game is displayed and effected.

An outline of the operation will be described with reference to FIG. First, when a coin is inserted and the start lever 204 is operated, the pulse generation unit 209 outputs a start pulse to the main control unit 20.
0, the main control unit 200 receives the start pulse and triggers the first motor 300 and the second motor 3
01, the driving of the third motor 302 is started, and each drum 80 is started.
The rotation operations of 0, 801 and 802 are started. Then
In step S800, the counter value of the big hit determination random number counter 400 is obtained, and if the obtained counter value is the big hit value (Yes), the process proceeds to step S830. Shifts to step S810.

In step S810, the first button 20
5. It is determined whether all of the second button 206 and the third button 207 have been operated, that is, whether or not all the operation pulses for the respective operations have been received from the pulse generator 209. If all the operation pulses have not been received (no), the wait state is set in step S810. On the other hand, if all the operation pulses have been received (Yes), the process shifts to step S830, where the main control unit is operated. 200 is the first motor 8
00, the driving of the second motor 801 and the third motor 802 is stopped, and the drums 800, 801 and 802 are stopped. At this time, the main control unit 200 controls the stop of each of the drums 800, 801 and 802 such that the winning symbols are not aligned on any of the winning effective lines.

On the other hand, also in step S830, the first
Button 205, second button 206, third button 207
Are operated, that is, whether or not all operation pulses for each operation have been received from the pulse generator 209. If all the operation pulses have not been received (no), a wait state is set in step S830. On the other hand, if all the operation pulses have been received (Yes).
In step S840, it is determined whether or not the pull-in control for stopping and controlling each of the drums 800, 801 and 802 is possible so that a hit is made on the hit effective line.

For example, taking the symbol data 701 as an example, if the button operation timing is to instruct a stop at the symbol 709 as indicated by the symbol A in FIG. The pull-in control can be performed such that the "7" 710 is forcibly hit and stopped on the activated line. On the other hand, when the button operation timing is to instruct the stop at the symbol 711 as shown by the symbol B in FIG. Means that the pull-in control cannot be performed so that the hit symbol "7" 710 within three symbols is forcibly stopped on the hit effective line.

As described above, only when each button operation timing hits and the symbol can be pulled in and controlled, step S85 is performed.
Move to 0. If the pull-in control is not possible, the process proceeds to step S870, where the drums 800, 801 and 802 are stopped at the timing corresponding to the button operation, and a symbol corresponding to the stop mode appears. Even in this case, if the symbol combination on the winning line becomes a winning combination, the medal payout mechanism 3 is set as a big hit.
10 is driven to pay out medals to the medal receiving unit 1100.

On the other hand, if the pull-in control is possible, the flow shifts to step S850, the pull-in control is performed so that the combination of symbols on the winning effective line becomes the hit combination, and the flow shifts to step S860, where the medal payout mechanism is set. By driving 310, medals are paid out to the medal receiving unit 1100. It should be noted that the pull-in control may be performed for any one of the drums, and there may be a drum for which the pull-in control is not performed as long as a hit point can appear.

In this way, the game in the pachislot machine 1 is continued, and information required at that time is displayed on the display effect device 104.

(Characteristic part) FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view of a front part of a pachislot machine 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The display effect device 104 is disposed substantially at the center of the front surface, and the turning device 1500 in which the three drums 800, 801 and 802 are rotatable is disposed near the upper portion thereof. On both sides of the torso device 1500, the type of combination, the number of payout medals for the combination, and the like are drawn.

The display area of the display effect device 104 is set so as to have a large area when viewed from the front of the torso device 1500 but to be much wider.

Further, a speaker 1000 and a lamp display device 114 are arranged above the turning device 1500. Also, the start lever 204 and the first operation button 20
5, operation units such as a second operation button 206 and a third operation button 207 are arranged below the display effect device 104.
Further, a metal receiving portion 1100 is arranged below these.

Therefore, according to the embodiment of the present invention,
Since the display effect device 104 is arranged substantially at the center of the front of the pachislot machine 1, information about the game is displayed at the normal line-of-sight position of the player. Feeling can be reduced. Further, since the display area of the display effect device 104 is larger than the area of the turning device 1500 in front view, the effect information is very easy to grasp.

FIG. 9 explains another embodiment, and is a schematic explanatory view of the front part of the pachislot machine 1. FIG. In the pachislot machine 1 of this embodiment, the display effect device 104 is disposed substantially at the center of the front, and the display effect device 104 is provided.
The turning device 1500 whose area in front view is much smaller than the display area is disposed near the display effect device 104 and at the lower left side.

Therefore, even in this other embodiment,
Since the display effect device 104 is arranged substantially at the center of the front of the pachislot machine 1, information about the game is displayed at the normal line-of-sight position of the player. Feeling can be reduced. Further, since the display area of the display effect device 104 is larger than the area of the turning device 1500 in front view, the effect information is very easy to grasp.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, various modifications and changes can be made to the above embodiment without departing from the spirit of the present invention. For example, in the embodiment of FIG. 9, the small torso device 1500 is arranged at the lower center of the display effect device 104 instead of the lower left portion, or is arranged on the left or right side of the display effect device 104, or the display effect. It is arranged below the device 104 and on the left or right side of the display effect device 104.

As described above, according to the present invention, since the display device is arranged at the substantially central portion of the front of the gaming machine, information on the game is displayed at the normal line of sight of the player,
During the game, the player is less likely to turn his or her gaze to the upper part, and the effect of reducing the feeling of fatigue can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view of a front portion of a pachislot machine 1. FIG.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a control block of the pachi-slot machine 1.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a big hit determination counter 400.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a command data table 410.

5 is a configuration diagram of the display effect device 104. FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a winning effective line.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of symbol data 700, 701, and 702.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of an operation outline.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of another embodiment.

10 is an explanatory diagram of a display example on the display effect device 104. FIG.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Pachislot machine 104 Display effect device 114 Lamp display device 200 Main control unit 201 ROM 202 RAM 203 Input port 204 Start lever 205 First button 206 Second button 207 Third button 208 Output port 211 Sound effect output device 212 Power supply circuit 300 1 motor 301 second motor 303 third motor 310 medal payout mechanism 400 random number counter for jackpot determination 410 command data table 500 CPU 510 program ROM 520 RAM 530 command receiving unit 540 image data ROM 550 LCD 600 display window 700 design data 701 design data 702 Symbol data 800 Drum 801 Drum 802 Drum 1000 Speaker 1100 Medal receiving unit 1500 times body device

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A rotating body device having a plurality of rotatable rotating bodies, and a display device for notifying game-related information, wherein a combination of identification information displayed on each rotating body is displayed on a hit line. In a turning type gaming machine configured to control the operation of the gaming machine so as to be in an advantageous state for the player when a specific combination is obtained, the display device is arranged at a substantially central portion of the front of the gaming machine. Spinning-type gaming machine. 2. The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the game machine is disposed above or below the display device. 3. The turning-type gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein a display area of the display device is larger than an area of the turning device in front view. A spinning-type gaming machine characterized by the following.