JP2003111923A - Pachinko game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase amusement in pachinko games by varying the number of prize balls obtained by big-win operation and playing games full of variety. SOLUTION: After a plurality of rows of patterns such as numbers and symbols are each varied and displayed on a pattern varying display 2 in such a way as to flow in dynamic images by the prize-winning of a hit ball in an actuating prize-winning opening 5, the variation of the display rows are each halted with time differences. In the case that the patterns halted in the display rows are all the same after a state (a ready-to-win state in the following) in which the other display rows are already halted in the same patterns while only the last one row is still varying, a big win is achieved to bring a variable prize-winning device 7 into a continuous open state. The continuous open state is repeated until a predetermined final round is reached under condition that hit balls win prizes in a continuous prize-winning opening 9 provided in the variable prize-winning device in the pachinko game machine. A round number (a maximum round number in the following) by which the variable prize- winning device can be continuously open is displayed on the pattern varying display 2, etc., so that a game player sees it, and the maximum round number is changed in the case that all the patterns halted after the ready-to-win state are not the same.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention variably displays a symbol on a symbol variation display by hitting a starting winning opening and a special symbol is given to generate a jackpot to continuously open a variable winning device. It relates to a pachinko machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, first-class pachinko game machines are
The game board is provided with a pattern variable display consisting of a color liquid crystal display, and when the starting winning hole is hit, the numbers 1-8 and symbols such as ☆ ◆ ◎ or characters (hereinafter,
The symbol) is displayed in three columns as if it fluctuates up and down or left and right, and the display variation stops after a few seconds, and the stop symbol has a predetermined probability (for example, 1/300), for example, "777", ""☆☆☆" is a big hit when all three rows have the same pattern, and the variable winning device (big winning opening) is configured to be opened by the operation of the electric opening / closing device, and the variable winning in the opened state When a predetermined number (usually 10) of hit balls enter the device or when a predetermined time limit (usually 30 seconds) elapses in the open state, the so-called first
After the round is over, the variable winning device is closed once,
During the first round, if a hit ball enters a continuous winning opening (called a V zone) provided in the variable winning device, the second round begins and the variable winning device is opened again. When a predetermined number of hit balls enter the open state variable winning device again, or when a predetermined time limit elapses in the open state, the second round ends and the variable winning device closes again, but the second round. When a ball hits the continuous winning opening provided in the variable winning device, the variable winning device is opened again immediately after the third round starts, and thus the continuous winning opening is hit during each round. The variable winning device is continuously opened until the final round (for example, the 15th round) is reached on condition that the player has won the prize.
In this way, during the period of the specific game state, the opening and closing door of the variable winning device is continuously opened up to the predetermined maximum number of rounds and the situation where the hit ball is extremely easy to enter continues, so once a jackpot occurs, many players will be hit. Prize balls will be paid out.

Further, the variable display of the above-mentioned symbol variable display is
Normally, the left row, the right row, and the middle row are stopped in that order, but if the left row and the right row are stopped with the same design, even if the middle row is temporarily stopped with a different design, it will flow in the opposite direction again, etc. Are all displayed with the same symbol and a big hit, or are displayed only with different symbols (generally called "reach state"). In other words, by giving a unique variation mode of the symbol like this reach state,
The player's expectation for a big hit is increased to entertain the player.

[0004]

However, in the conventional pachinko game machine of this type, the maximum number of rounds is always 1 for example.
It was set to 5 rounds and did not change.
For this reason, the number of prize balls obtained by the jackpot motion was almost constant, and the change was scarce. Therefore, the pachinko gaming machine of the present invention is intended to increase its interest by changing the maximum number of rounds whenever a reach state occurs and avoiding monotonousness.

[0005]

To this end, the present invention provides a variable display such that numbers, symbols and the like flow in a plurality of rows in a moving image on the variable pattern display by hitting a starting winning opening. After that, the fluctuation of each display row is stopped with a time difference, and only the last one row is still changing and the other display rows are already stopped with the same symbol (hereinafter, referred to as reach state) When all the symbols stopped in each display row are the same, it becomes a big hit and the variable winning device is continuously opened, and the hit ball is won in the continuous winning opening provided in the variable winning device. In the pachinko gaming machine, where this continuous open state is repeated until the predetermined final round is reached, the number of rounds (hereinafter referred to as the maximum round number) at which the variable winning device can be continuously opened is seen by the player. And displays the symbol variation display or the like as, is characterized in that so as to vary the number of the maximum round when stopped symbols via a reach state is not all the same. Further, the present invention is characterized in that, in the pachinko gaming machine, the maximum round number is randomly changed. Further, the present invention is characterized in that, in the pachinko gaming machine, the maximum number of rounds is changed according to the number of times the reach state is generated. Further, the present invention is characterized in that, in the above-mentioned pachinko gaming machine, the maximum number of rounds is changed according to the number of times of variable display of symbols in which a situation in which a big hit does not occur continues. Further, in the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention, when the maximum number of rounds is set small, the probability of generating a jackpot is set to be high, and when the maximum number of rounds is set to be large, the probability of generating a jackpot is set to be low. It is characterized by doing so.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the front of the game board 1 in this pachinko gaming machine. In the figure, 2 is a pattern variation display consisting of a color liquid crystal display provided on the game board 1, 3 and 4 are regular winning openings, 5 Is a tulip-shaped starting winning opening provided with a pair of opening / closing pieces 6. Reference numeral 7 denotes a variable winning device which is provided below the starting winning port 5 and has a large rectangular big winning port. The winning device 7 is provided with a door 8 which opens and closes forward by operating a solenoid. Continuous winning hole 9 in the door 8
Is provided. In addition, reference numeral 10 denotes four holding display lamps which are provided to store the number of hit balls when the prize winning opening 5 is won during the variable display of the pattern change display 2 and hold the start.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an input / output device related to the present invention, which is connected to a control board 15 composed of a CPU, a ROM, a RAM and an I / O. Reference numeral 21 denotes a ball hit at the starting winning opening 5. A start switch for detecting, 22 is a count switch for counting the winning balls to the variable winning device 7, 23
Is a continuation switch for detecting a winning ball to the continuous winning opening 9. Further, on the control board 15, the symbol variation display 2, the hold display lamp 10, and the variable winning device 7
A solenoid 24 and the like for opening and closing the door 8 are connected.

Next, the operation of this pachinko gaming machine will be described with reference to the flow charts of FIGS. FIG. 3 shows a jackpot determination routine. When it is detected in step 1 that a hit ball has entered the starting winning opening 5, a random number is acquired in step 2, and in step 3, the random number acquired here is a predetermined number. It is determined whether it is a reach random number, and if it is a reach random number, 1 to 8 on the symbol variation display 2 in step 4.
Numbers and symbols such as ☆ ◆ ◎ or symbols such as characters are variably displayed in 3 columns so that they flow from top to bottom, and after reaching the reach state, the variation is stopped, and if it is not a reach random number, step 5 1 to 8 on the pattern variation display 2
The numbers and symbols such as ☆ ◆ ◎ or symbols or characters are displayed in a three-column manner so as to flow downward, and then the variation is stopped. Then, in step 7, it is determined whether the random number acquired in step 2 is a specific number, and if it is not the specific number, the display of the loss is displayed in step 9, and the maximum round number S is displayed in step 10. Update. This maximum round number S is randomly selected within the range of 10 to 18 times and is displayed on a part of the symbol variation display 2 as illustrated in FIG. If it is determined in step 7 that the random number is the specific number, the jackpot is displayed in step 11, and the process moves to step 12 to perform the jackpot operation. Therefore, by determining the reach random number or the specific number in advance, the reach state or the jackpot can be generated with a predetermined probability.

In the jackpot operation routine shown in FIG. 4, after the number of rounds R is initialized in step a, the solenoid 24 is operated in step b to open the variable winning device 7 and then step c. At, the count C of the winning balls that have won the variable winning device 7 is initialized, and at step d, the storage of the presence or absence of winning at the continuous winning opening 9 is initialized. Then, each time a winning ball hit by the variable winning device 7 is detected within 30 seconds by the circle of steps e and f, the winning ball is added to the count number C in step g, and steps h and i are added. If there is a ball hitting the continuous winning hole 9, it is stored, and step j
Then, when the count number C reaches 10, the process proceeds to step k to close the variable winning device 7.

Then, in step l, it is determined whether or not there is a hit at the continuous winning opening 9, and if the continuous winning opening 9 is won, the number of rounds R reaches the maximum number of rounds S in step m. It is determined whether or not it has been reached, and if it has not reached, after adding the number of rounds R in step n, the process returns to step b and the variable winning device 7 is opened again. Further, when the continuous winning opening 9 has not been won, and when the number of rounds R has reached the maximum number of rounds S, the process moves to step o and the jackpot end display is displayed on the symbol variation display 2 to end the jackpot operation. .

In this pachinko gaming machine, as shown in the transition of the display of the symbol variation display 2 in FIG. 5, when the symbols stopped after the reach state are not all the same and a big hit does not occur, that is, The maximum number of rounds changes randomly if the reach is lost. And when a big hit occurs, the variable winning device 7 is this symbol variation display device 2.
The maximum number of rounds displayed in will be the limit and the open state will be repeated.

On the other hand, FIG. 6 shows a routine for setting the maximum round number S to a predetermined number in advance according to the number of times the reach state occurs, as described in claim 3. In the figure,
Step A shifts to step B only when the variable display of the symbol variable display 2 is accompanied by the reach state, and the reach number R is added. When it is determined in step C that the reach number R is 10 or less, “10” is stored as the maximum round number S in step D,
If it is determined in step E that the reach count R is 11 to 19 times, "15" is stored as the maximum round count S in step F, and the reach count R is 20 to 49 times in step G. If it is determined that there is a step H
"18" is stored as the maximum number of rounds S at, and if the number of reach R is 50 or more, "20" is stored as the maximum number of rounds S at step I. The display is updated in step 10 of 3. When a big hit occurs, the reach count R is initialized. As described above, in this embodiment, when the jackpot occurs after the reach loss continues, the maximum number of rounds of the jackpot becomes larger, so that the loss of the player caused by the absence of the jackpot for a long time is reduced. It becomes possible to fill.
The reach number R can be displayed so that the player can understand it.

Further, as described in claim 4, it is also possible to change the maximum round number S in accordance with the number of times of variable display of symbols in a situation where a big hit does not occur. To this end, step A shown in FIG. 6 can be implemented by setting the variable display of symbols as a condition.

Further, the present invention can be applied to a so-called probability variation type pachinko gaming machine (also referred to as probability variation) in which the jackpot occurrence probability is set to be higher than that in the normal time after the jackpot operation is completed.

Further, in the present invention, not only is the number of rounds in which the variable winning device can be continuously opened changed as described above, but the jackpot occurrence probability after the jackpot operation is set higher than in the normal time. You can also do so. Further, the number of rounds in which the variable winning device can be continuously opened is changed, and at the same time, the number of prize balls paid out by one winning ball to the variable winning device during the jackpot operation may be changed. . At the same time, the jackpot occurrence probability may be set to be high. Furthermore, these benefits can also be combined appropriately. For that purpose, the contents of steps D, F, H, and I in the flowchart of FIG. 6 can be set according to the contents.

At that time, as described in claim 5,
When the maximum number of rounds is set low, the probability of jackpots is set to be high, and when the maximum number of rounds is set to high, the probability of jackpots is set to be low. Can be suppressed. For example, if the maximum number of rounds is set to 10, the probability is set to 1/150, and if the maximum number of rounds is set to 18, the probability is set to 1/250. Further, the maximum number of rounds may be set to 5 and the probability may be set to 1/75 so that the big hit can be easily generated.

The maximum round number S is displayed on a part or all of the symbol variation display 2, and is also provided on the corner lens display section, ball rental switch display section, between gaming machine bases or on the upper portion of the gaming machine. It can also be displayed on various information display parts.

In the present invention, as described in the above embodiment, as a definition of the reach state, the variation of each display row of the symbol variation display is stopped with a time lag,
Only the last one row is still changing and the other display rows are already stopped with the same symbol, and the condition of the big hit is that the symbols stopped in each display row are all the same, but the big hit occurs Even if the conditions of stop symbols are not all the same, depending on the model, it may be a big hit when certain predetermined symbols are gathered, in which case the reach is reached when the omen of the big hit is shown. It is also possible to change the maximum number of rounds when it is understood that a condition has occurred and, as a result, no jackpot has occurred. It can also be applied to a model that causes a big hit by displaying a predetermined symbol (wild card). As described above, the present invention can be variously modified without departing from the scope of the invention.

Further, the maximum number of rounds does not necessarily have to be changed every time the reach state occurs, and even when the symbols stopped after the reach state are not all the same, the maximum number of rounds may not change. . Alternatively,
The maximum number of rounds may change each time the reach state occurs a predetermined number of times.

[0020]

As described above, the present invention displays the number of rounds in which the variable winning device can be continuously opened on the symbol variation display or the like so that the player can see it, and the symbol stopped after the reach state is displayed. Since the maximum number of rounds is changed when they are not all the same, the number of prize balls obtained by the jackpot movement fluctuates, which allows a variety of games to be played, increasing interest. It has a great effect.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a game board of a pachinko gaming machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a pachinko gaming machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a pachinko gaming machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a pachinko gaming machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a time chart of a pachinko gaming machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a pachinko gaming machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 game board 2 Design change indicator 5 Start winning holes 7 Variable winning device 9 Continuous prize holes 10 Hold display lamp 15 Control board

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. When the hit ball hits the starting winning opening, the symbols such as numbers and symbols are variably displayed in a plurality of columns so as to flow like a moving image, respectively, and then the variations of each of the columns are displayed. Is the one that stops with a time lag, only the last one row is still changing and the other display rows have already stopped with the same symbol (hereinafter referred to as reach state), and then the symbols stopped on each display column When all are the same, it is a big hit and the variable winning device is continuously opened, and this continuous opening state is provided on condition that the hit ball is won in the continuous winning opening provided in the variable winning device. In a pachinko gaming machine that is repeated until a predetermined final round is reached, the number of rounds in which the variable winning device can be continuously opened (hereinafter referred to as the maximum number of rounds) is displayed on the pattern variation display etc. so that the player can see it. In addition, the pachinko machine is characterized by changing the maximum number of rounds when the symbols stopped after the reach state are not all the same. 2. The pachinko gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the maximum round number is randomly changed. 3. The pachinko gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the maximum number of rounds is changed according to the number of times the reach state is generated. 4. The pachinko game machine according to claim 1, wherein the maximum number of rounds is changed according to the number of times of variable display of symbols in a situation where a big hit does not occur. 5. A high jackpot probability is set when the maximum number of rounds is set low, and a high jackpot probability is set low when the maximum number of rounds is set large. The pachinko game machine described in 1 to 4.