JP2003169920A - Game-controlling device for pachinko game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the game property by reflecting the intention of a game player to the advancing of a game status being advantageous to the game player. <P>SOLUTION: A control device 11 interrupts the opening/closing motion of an opening/closing body 7 when determined patterns by a pattern-displaying device 5 are gathered with a winning pattern. When the game player operates a game-advancing mechanism 3, the control device 11 opens/closes the opening/ closing body 7 for a specified period of time or a specified number of times, and a big jackpot game is advanced, and a game status being advantageous to the game player is presented. In the meantime, when the game player does not operate the game-advancing mechanism 3 because remaining balls to be shot in a tray device are less or none, the control device 11 keeps the opening/ closing body 7 closed. Thus, the advancing of the big jackpot game is interrupted, and the game status being advantageous to the game player is kept under a reserved state. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game control device for a pachinko machine that creates a game situation that is advantageous to a player by winning a start prize.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The game control device for a pachinko machine disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-303733 stops after starting the symbol fluctuation of the symbol display device triggered by a start winning, and the stopped definite symbol is a winning symbol. When aligned, a variable winning device is opened to create a favorable game situation for the player.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, the time from the symbol determination by the symbol display device to the opening of the variable winning device is lengthened, and the determined symbol stop by the symbol display device is operated by the player within the period. Either the display state is released, or because the structure is such that the opening time is temporarily delayed by the player's operation, the time from the symbol determination to opening and closing passes, or the player does not know the function, If the delay operation is not performed, the jackpot game in which the variable winning device is opened and closed progresses. Therefore, there is a problem that the jackpot game starts before the player newly borrows the ball when the balls to be shot are exactly gone when the confirmed symbols are arranged in the winning symbol.

Therefore, the present invention provides a game control device for a pachinko machine which can improve the game playability by reflecting the player's intention in the progress of a game situation advantageous to the player.

[0005]

According to the present invention, by providing a game progress operation mechanism that influences the progress of the game before a game situation advantageous to the player is created, a game accompanying a start winning prize is provided. The intention of the player can be reflected in the progress of the game situation that is advantageous to the player. Further, in the present invention,
If the starting means for advancing the game situation advantageous to the player by the operation of the game advancing operation mechanism is provided, the progress of the game situation advantageous to the player can be appropriately interrupted unless the player operates the starting means. it can. Further, in the present invention, if the interrupting means for interrupting the game situation advantageous to the player by operating the game advancing operation mechanism is provided, the interrupting means may be operated only when the player wants to interrupt, Operation becomes easy.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION FIG. 1 schematically shows a game control device for a pachinko machine according to a first embodiment. The game control device is a start winning device 1, a ball detector 2, a game progression operating mechanism 3, an operation switch 4, a symbol display device 5, a variable winning device 6, an opening / closing drive source 8, an alarm device 9, a message display device 10 and a control device. 11 is provided. The starting winning device 1, the sphere detector 2, the symbol display device 5, and the variable winning device 6 are provided in the inner game area surrounded by the guide rails on the design board surface of the game board (not shown).
The game progress operation mechanism 3 is provided on the front surface of a game machine frame (not shown) in which the game board is stored. Sphere detector 2 and operation switch 4
Is an input device of the control device 11, the ball detector 2 outputs to the control device 11 a start winning detection signal which detects a ball that has won the starting winning device 1 from the design board surface of the game board, and the operation switch 4 causes the game. When the advancing operation mechanism 3 is operated by the player, it is turned on and outputs an operation signal to the control device 11.

The symbol display device 5, the variable winning device 6, the opening / closing drive source 8, the alarm device 9 and the message display device 10 are output devices of the control device 11, and the symbol display device 5 is a symbol matching game accompanying the starting winning prize. The variable winning a prize device 6 displays a big hit game accompanied by the winning of the symbol matching game and creates a game situation advantageous to the player. The alarm device 9 notifies a game store or a clerk that the game interruption situation is long. Message display 10
Notifies the player of operation information for starting a game situation advantageous to the interrupted player. The control device 11 is provided on the back side of the game board or the back side of the game machine frame, and the starting means 12, the timer 13, and the long-term judgment value 1 stored in the control device 11 are stored.
4 is embodied by a microcomputer incorporated in the control device 11 executing control processing according to a program. The starting means 12 determines whether to open or close the operation of opening the opening / closing body 7 of the variable winning a prize device 6 which is a jackpot for creating a game situation advantageous to the player, depending on the presence or absence of the operation signal from the operation switch 4, The timer 13 measures the elapsed time from the interruption of the opening / closing operation of the opening / closing body 7. The long-term determination value 14 is a reference value for determining whether or not the opening / closing operation interruption time of the opening / closing body 7 is long.

The operation of this embodiment will be described. In a state where the control device 11 is activated, the player operates a ball launching operation mechanism (not shown) provided on the front surface of the game machine frame, and a game area is provided from a ball launching mechanism (not shown) provided inside the game machine frame. The ball that was fired at the start wins the winning device 1, and the ball detector 2
Since the start winning award detection signal is input to the control device 11 and the control device 11 detects the input of the starting award signal, if the step 101 is YES, the control device 11 causes the prize winning payout process based on the starting award detection signal. And the symbol matching game process is started. By the prize ball payout process, the control device 11 drives a ball payout mechanism (not shown) provided on the back side of the game machine frame, and the ball payout mechanism provides a predetermined number of prize balls on the front side of the game machine frame (not shown). Pay out to the dish device. With the start of the symbol matching game process, the control device 11 executes a lottery process, a symbol variation process according to the result of the lottery process, and a jackpot process according to the result of the lottery process.

In the lottery process, the winning due to the variation in the design depending on the input timing of the start winning detection signal in the control device 11
The missed lottery is executed and the lottery result is stored. In the symbol variation process, the control device 11 drives the symbol display device 5 as follows. If the winning is stored as a lottery result,
After the control device 11 starts the symbol variation of the symbol display device 5, it stops so as to align with the winning symbol (the stopped definite symbols are aligned with the winning symbol). When the deviation is stored as the lottery result, the control device 11 starts to change the symbol of the symbol display device 5 and then stops so as to be aligned with the deviation symbol (the stopped definite symbol becomes a symbol other than the winning symbol). The jackpot process is executed by the control device 11 only after the winning is determined as a result of the lottery process, after the symbol variation by the symbol display device 5 is stopped. In the jackpot processing, the above symbol display device 5
The control device 11 controls the opening / closing drive source 8 after the confirmed symbols of No. 3 have been hit and arranged, and the opening / closing drive source 8 opens / closes the opening / closing body 7 of the variable winning device 6 for a predetermined time or a predetermined number of times.

In the first embodiment, in the game situation where the determined symbols are hit and the symbols are aligned, if the player does not operate the game progression operation mechanism 3, the opening / closing operation of the opening / closing body 7 that follows is interrupted. For example, when the symbol display device 5 hits the fixed symbols after the symbol variation and the symbols are aligned, the opening / closing operation of the opening / closing body 7 is interrupted (a state in which the opening / closing body 7 is never opened / closed) while displaying a message in step 102 Execute the process. According to the message display process, the control device 11 operates “the game progress operation mechanism 3 if there is a ball to be fired in the dish device, and operates the game progress operation mechanism 3 if there is no ball to be fired in the dish device. Please output the operation information such as "Please borrow the ball from the store without doing it" to the message display 10,
The message display 10 displays the operation information from the control device 11 to notify the player. Then, the player decides whether to operate the game progression operation mechanism 3 by looking at the operation information of the message display device 10 and the amount of the ball to be hit by the dish device,
For example, since there is a ball to be hit in the dish device, the player has operated the game progression operation mechanism 3, and therefore step 10
If 3 is YES, the control device 11 executes the game progress processing shown in step 104. As a result, the control device 11 controls the opening / closing drive source 8, and the opening / closing drive source 8 opens and closes the opening / closing body 7.
The jackpot game progresses by opening and closing for a predetermined time or a predetermined number of times, and a game situation that is advantageous to the player is created.

On the contrary, when the number of balls to be hit on the dish device is low or absent, the player does not operate the game progression operation mechanism 3, so that step 103 is NO.
The control device 11 executes the game interruption process shown in step 105. As a result, the control device 11 does not control the opening / closing drive source 8, the opening / closing body 7 remains closed, the progress of the big hit game is interrupted, and the game situation is put on hold for the advantage of the player. After that, the control device 11 performs the long time determination process shown in step 106. In the long time determination process, the elapsed time from either the timing when the definite symbols after the symbol variation of the symbol display device 5 hits or the timing when the opening / closing operation of the opening / closing member 7 is interrupted is counted up, and the count up progress The time is compared to the long term judgment value 14. If the step 106 is YES because the elapsed time has reached the long-term judgment value 14, the control device 11 gives information indicating that the jackpot operation progress has been interrupted for a long period of time to a hall for managing the alarm device 9 and the store operation. Output to computer. The alarm device 9 which inputs this information emits a sound, voice or light to be notified to the clerk.

In short, in the first embodiment, when the determined symbols by the symbol display device 5 are aligned in the winning symbol, unless the player operates the game progression operation mechanism 3, the advantageous game situation of the following player does not progress. Therefore, if there are few or no balls to hit the dish device, the player may operate the game progress operation mechanism 3 after renting the balls from the store with a sufficient time margin. On the contrary, the advantageous game situation of the player does not progress, and the playability can be improved. In addition, when the fixed symbols are hit and the symbols are arranged, the message display 1 displays operation information that follows.
Since 0 is displayed, even a player with little experience can respond appropriately. Further, when the player does not operate the game progression operation mechanism 3 for a long period of time, the alarm device 9 gives an alarm, so that the problem that one pachinko machine is occupied by a specific player for a long time can be eliminated. You can

FIG. 2 schematically shows a game control device for a pachinko machine according to the second embodiment. In the first embodiment, the advantageous game situation of the player progresses by the operation of the game progress operation mechanism 3, whereas in the second embodiment, the advantageous game situation of the player progresses by the operation of the game progress operation mechanism 3. The matter to be interrupted is different from that of the first embodiment. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the control device 11 includes the interrupting means 15 that replaces the starting means 12 of FIG. 1, while including the step 203 that replaces step 103 of FIG. As a result, in the game situation in which the fixed symbols are aligned with the winning symbol, if the player does not operate the game progression operation mechanism 3, the opening / closing operation of the opening / closing body 7 that follows is proceeded. Therefore, when the player operates the game progress operation mechanism 3 when the determined symbols by the symbol display device 5 are aligned in a winning pattern, the subsequent progress of the advantageous game situation of the player is interrupted, so that the dish device is hit. When there are few or no balls to be played, the player can borrow the ball from the store with a sufficient time after operating the game progression operation mechanism 3, which is advantageous for the player. It is possible to improve the game playability without the progress of various game situations.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the variable winning device 6 is opened and closed depending on the result of the definite symbol of the symbol display device 5 to make the game situation advantageous to the player. The same can be applied even if a game situation that is advantageous to the player is created by opening and closing a variable winning device such as a center accessory provided with a body or a feather. In this case, the variable winning device may include a specific winning opening called a V zone and a normal winning opening called a ten count zone.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a game control device according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a game control device according to a second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 start prize device, 3 game progression operation mechanism, 6 variable prize device, 9 alarm device, 10 message display device, 11
Control device, 12 starting means, 15 interruption means.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A game control device for a pachinko machine that creates a game situation that is advantageous to a player by a start winning, and is provided with a game progress operation mechanism that influences the progress of the game before the game situation that is advantageous to the player is created. A game control device for a pachinko machine, which is characterized in that 2. The game control device for a pachinko machine according to claim 1, further comprising start means for advancing a game situation advantageous to a player by operating a game progression operation mechanism. 3. A game control device for a pachinko machine according to claim 1, further comprising an interruption means for interrupting a game situation advantageous to a player by operating a game progression operation mechanism.