JP2005066173A5 - - Google Patents

Claims (5)

A storage unit for storing game balls, a payout device for paying out game balls to the storage unit, and a receiving device for receiving game balls from the storage unit, the game device based on receiving the game medium by the receiving device In gaming machines that are designed to perform
Virtual game ball storage means for storing game balls as virtual game balls;
Operation means operated to pay out the virtual game balls stored in the virtual game ball storage means to the storage unit;
When there is a virtual game ball stored in the virtual game ball storage means, a first game mode in which a game is played using the virtual game ball preferentially and a second game is executed using all real game balls. Mode setting means for alternatively setting a game mode;
Mode switching means for switching between the first game mode and the second game mode in accordance with an operation of the operation means;
A gaming machine characterized by comprising: A storage unit for storing game balls, a payout device for paying out game balls to the storage unit, and a receiving device for receiving game balls from the storage unit, the game device based on receiving the game medium by the receiving device In gaming machines that are designed to perform
  Virtual game ball storage means for storing game balls as virtual game balls;
  Operation means operated to pay out the virtual game balls stored in the virtual game ball storage means to the storage unit;
  When there is a virtual game ball stored in the virtual game ball storage means, a first game mode in which a game is played using the virtual game ball preferentially, and a second game is executed using all real game balls. Mode setting means for alternatively setting a game mode;
  Game ball automatic receiving means for automatically receiving at least the number of game balls necessary for the next game round by driving the receiving device;
  Mode switching means for switching between the first game mode and the second game mode in accordance with an operation of the operation means, and not automatically accepting game balls by the game ball automatic accepting means in accordance with the mode switching. When,
A gaming machine characterized by comprising: The game medium automatic receiving means stores at least the number of game media necessary for the next game round as virtual game media in the virtual game medium storage means, and then performs the bet number setting operation by the bet number setting means. The gaming machine according to claim 2, wherein the game machine is an acceptance process. 4. The mode switching unit according to claim 1, wherein the mode switching unit switches the game mode after the virtual game medium has been paid out when the virtual game ball is paid out in accordance with the operation of the operation unit. Gaming machine. Memory ball number display means for displaying the number of virtual game balls stored in the virtual game ball memory means, and the memory ball number display means in a display state under the setting of the first game mode and the second game mode. 5. The gaming machine according to claim 1, further comprising display switching means for setting the memory ball number display means to a non-display state under the setting.