JP2007300999A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To add the depth to the operation by a player by announcing the degree of expectancy for a jackpot according to the timing when it becomes possible for the player to operate a button, etc. <P>SOLUTION: When a specific kind of presentation is determined, one event pattern, in which timing T1 for making the player's operation effective is set, is selected from a group of event patterns corresponding to the specific kind of presentation, and the operation by the player is permitted based on the selected event pattern. The timing of operation of the button is changed according to the number of event patterns included in the event pattern group, and various timing can be set for the player to participate in the presentation of the same kind. In this way, the possibility of establishment of a special game can be discriminated according to the difference in the timing of the player's participation in one presentation. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a pachinko machine, an arrangement ball game machine, a ball ball game machine, a spinning-reel game machine, a slot machine, an arcade game machine, and the like, and more particularly, to the establishment of special games such as jackpots and big bonuses. The present invention relates to a gaming machine that derives the result of an internal lottery through symbol variation or the like in an effect device such as a liquid crystal display.

When this type of gaming machine develops into a so-called reach in which the left and right symbols are aligned in the middle of the symbol variation for deriving the jackpot lottery result, as described in Patent Document 1, for example, a button operation by the player is performed. In response to the acceptance of the button and the repeated hitting of the buttons, the movement of the character displayed on the liquid crystal display is changed, and a player-participation-type production is incorporated. The effective period of the button operation starts when reaching reach and continues for a set time, or is changed according to the type of reach (paragraph 0007).
JP 2005-143819 A

  However, in the document described above, the reach operation and the effective timing of the button operation completely correspond to each other. Eventually, the player wins a big hit based on the type of reach, that is, the change of the image displayed on the liquid crystal display. It can only detect the degree of reliability and expectation. For this reason, even if the same kind of reach production comes out and button operation becomes possible, as long as there is no difference as a change in the image, it is not possible to determine the difference between the previous and current game situations, etc. The operation was solely responsible for boosting reach production.

  The present invention provides a gaming machine capable of notifying the jackpot expectation level according to the timing at which the player can operate the buttons and the like, giving depth to the operation by the player, and further enhancing the fun The task is to do.

  The invention according to claim 1 appears in the effect device 70 in the process of deriving the lottery result and the lottery result deriving means X for causing the effect device 70 to derive the result of the lottery related to the establishment of the special game, as illustrated in the drawings. In a gaming machine having a control device CN including an effect determining means Y for determining an effect to be performed and a player operation intervention means Z for intervening the operation of the player operation switch 30 during the determined specific type of effect. The device CN selects an event pattern selecting means P for selecting one event pattern that sets a timing at which the operation of the player operation intervention means Z is valid from an event pattern group corresponding to each of the specific types of effects, and a selection And the operation permission means W for permitting the operation of the player operation intervention means Z based on the event pattern.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the event pattern included in the event pattern group corresponding to the highly reliable performance leading to the establishment of the special game is the event pattern included in the event pattern group corresponding to the low-confidence performance. It has a specific item that sets a timing that tends to be more delayed than the pattern.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the event pattern has a specific matter including a setting of no timing at which the operation of the player operation intervention means is not effective.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the event pattern in which the timing is set has a specific matter that also sets a period during which the operation of the player operation intervention means Z is effectively continued.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the period during which the operation of the player operation intervention means Z is effectively continued has a specific item that is set longer when a timing later than the earlier timing is set.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, a specific type of effect is determined by the effect determining means, and the action of the player operation intervention means is effective from the event pattern group corresponding to each specific type of effect by the event pattern selecting means. One event pattern having a set timing is selected, and the operation of the player operation intervention means is permitted based on the event pattern by the operation permission means. Therefore, the timing at which the operation of the player operation intervention means becomes effective can be changed according to the number of event patterns included in the event pattern group, and various times at which the player operation can intervene with respect to the same type of production are set. be able to. In this way, in one production, depending on the difference in actual experience such as early and late intervention of the player operation, it is possible to distinguish the magnitude of the possibility of special game establishment, and the expectation for special game etc. Can be notified. Therefore, the operation by the player can be deep and the interest can be effectively enhanced.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, if the intervention time of the player operation is late, the possibility of reaching a special game is increased, so that it is possible to attract interest to the production until the end.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, it is possible to notify the degree of expectation for a special game, etc., depending on the difference between the presence and absence of the player operation intervention time.

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to further notify the degree of expectation and the like according to the length of the period during which the player operation can be intervened.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the longer intervention time is secured when the player operation intervention time is late, it is possible to prevent the opportunity for the operation from being inadvertently lost.

  FIG. 1 shows a pachinko gaming machine 1 to which the present invention is applied, and a game frame 10 supports a main body 11 so that the door can be opened. A front door 14 in which a glass 13 is fitted to a round window 12 is provided at the upper front portion of the main body 11, and the game board 2 is provided inside the front door 14. The lower part of the front surface of the main body 11 is provided with an upper plate 31 for receiving a rented ball and a prize ball, a lower plate 32 for receiving a ball overflowing inward, a launching handle 4 for hitting the ball on the game board 2 and sound effects. Right and left speakers 51 and 52 are provided. The upper plate 31 includes a player operation switch 30 including left, middle, and right buttons 3L, 3C, and 3R for intervening player operations during the game. Reference numerals 33 and 34 denote convex inter-switch separators. The front door 14 includes lamps 61 to 65 used for decoration and various state displays.

The game board 2 includes the following game parts 1) to 6).
1) Center unit 7
This unit 7 derives the result of the internal lottery related to the establishment of the jackpot as a special game that is activated by the start winning at the start opening 81, 82 in the center of the decorative frame 71 through a predetermined effect. A display effect device 70 is provided. This effect device 70 includes an image effect element 7A composed of a color liquid crystal display, and an actual operation effect element 7B having a movable pistol gear 7p and a rotary mini drum 7r. The image effect element 7A fluctuates or stops the left, middle, and right symbol images DL, DC, and DR together with the background moving image. The pistol gear 7p in the actual operation effect element 7B is rotated by a predetermined angle around the drive shaft 7d from the state accommodated in the gun belt 7b under a predetermined effect condition, and the mini drum 7r is rotated in a lateral direction with a slightly oblique posture. .

2) Upper start port 81, lower start port 82
A predetermined number, for example, three prize balls for each starting prize by entering the upper starting hole 81, and a predetermined number, for example, four prize balls for each starting prize by entering the lower starting opening 82 are paid out. For example, for each starting winning prize within a range not exceeding the upper limit of four reserved balls, one random number listed in the following a) to c) is obtained from the software or hard random number warehouse, and the main control section described later Store in the RAM of the MC. The random numbers of a) and c) may be shared.
A) For example, a random number for lottery lottery that is updated at a high speed within a range of 0 to 760 b) A random number for an upper limit round lottery that is updated at a high speed within a range of 0 to 100 c) The number of games lottery random numbers Note that the jackpot is established when the acquired jackpot lottery random number matches one of the two types of winning numbers, and the jackpot probability is 2/761 = 0.00262812.

  The lower start port 82 is normally in a state in which no ball can be entered by the upper start port 81, and can be entered by opening the petals 82a and 82b of the electric tulip 820 associated with the ordinary electric accessory. In addition, under the laws and regulations related to the Wind Management Law, a character means a special device that facilitates winning a prize (Article 7 Pachinko Gaming Machine No. 5 of the Wind Law Enforcement Regulations). The concept is to enlarge the entrance, etc., and is a concept that is distinguished from a special electric accessory that enlarges the entrance of the special prize opening.

3) Grand prize opening 8 related to special electric equipment
When the big hit game is derived after the big hit, the ball receiving member 80 that covers the front is tilted forward to open the big winning opening 8 to make it easy to win the game ball. A predetermined number, for example, 15 prize balls are paid out for each winning prize. For example, a maximum of, for example, 9 winnings are allowed for every round of 30 seconds. When there is one or more winnings, the ball receiving member 80 is temporarily closed at the end of one round, and then opened again after a predetermined interval of 2 to 3 seconds. In one big hit, according to the random number for the upper limit round lottery acquired at the time of winning the winning prize, for example, 15 rounds with a 70/101 allocation rate and 5 rounds with a 31/101 allocation rate are continued at each upper limit. .

4) Gate 9 as a chance to change normal symbols
By passing the ball to the gate 9, a random number for normal symbol lottery different from the random numbers listed above is acquired and stored in the RAM of the main control unit MC. For example, when the winning game is derived after a change in the regular symbol over 1 second for a time-reducing game (hereinafter referred to as “short time”), for example, 30 seconds for a normal time that is not a short time, after the big hit game, the petal of the electric tulip 820 82a and 82b are opened in a predetermined manner. For example, when the time is short, the release of 1.6 seconds is repeated three times, and during the normal time, the release of 0.3 seconds is performed only once. The opening operation based on the winning of one normal symbol is interrupted when there is a maximum of 10 winnings, for example.

5) 7-segment LED display board 90
Three special symbol displays C, F, G, and special symbols waiting to be changed, which are linked to variations in the symbol images DL, DC, and DR in the image rendering element 7A in the rendering device 70 and variably display the special symbol related to the jackpot. Special figure hold number display H that displays the number of reserved balls, normal symbol display I that displays normal symbols variably, universal figure hold number display J that displays the number of held pass balls waiting for fluctuation of normal symbols, jackpot game Two round number displays K and M for displaying the number of rounds of the hour, and three short time number displays N, Q and T for displaying the number of short times after the big hit game are provided.

  The number of time reductions is, for example, 100 times with a 73/101 allocation rate and 90, 80, 70, 60 for each 4/101 allocation rate according to the random number for time-saving game number lottery acquired at the time of winning the winning prize. , 50 times, and 40, 30, 20, 10 times with a distribution ratio of 2/101 each. In addition, after the jackpot game, for example, the winning value which was two in normal times is increased by 7 times, and the probability change (hereinafter referred to as probability change) game in which the winning probability is increased by 7 times is entered. This probability change game is released irregularly when a fall is selected by a fall lottery for each symbol variation based on the start winning, and returns to a normal winning probability.

6) Other General winning ports 23 to 26 for paying out a predetermined number of, for example, 13 prize balls for each prize, a rail 21 that divides a substantially circular game area 20 and guides a ball to be launched by the firing handle 4, and a ball stopper 22 , An out port 29 for discharging the ball that missed the winning prize is provided. Although not shown, the game area 20 has a number of game nails struck according to a unique gauge.

  FIG. 2 shows a control device CN of the gaming machine. A main control unit MC including a CPU, a ROM, and a RAM, and first and second peripheral control units SC1 and SC2 are provided. The main control unit MC includes a winning switch 81S for the upper starting port 81, a winning switch 82S for the lower starting port 82, a winning switch 8S for the large winning port 8, a ball passing switch 9S for the gate 9, and a winning for the general winning ports 23 to 26. The switches 23S to 26S are input. The first peripheral control unit SC1 is input with left, middle and right buttons 3L, 3C and 3R constituting the player operation switch 30.

  From the main control unit MC to the peripheral control units SC1 and SC2, the direction command generated based on various lottery results in the main control unit MC, such as the big lottery internal lottery result, is sent in a one-way direction. The control units SC1 and SC2 receive a command instructed to be transmitted from the main control unit MC, and exclusively handle production control according to the command. In the main control unit MC, the elapse of the production time specified by the transmission command is managed by a timer, and the end of the symbol variation is falsely recognized. Further, bidirectional data transmission / reception is possible between the peripheral control units SC1 and SC2 as necessary.

  The ROM of the main control unit MC stores a game program responsible for main control of the game such as a jackpot internal lottery process. The main control unit MC controls the solenoid SL1 for opening and closing the ball receiving member 80 of the prize winning port 8, the solenoid SL2 for opening and closing the petals 82a and 82b of the electric tulips, and various indicators on the 7-segment LED display board 90. Yes.

  From the first peripheral control unit SC1, a drive source 7m such as a stepping motor for driving the pistol figure gear 7p and a drive source 7n such as a stepping motor for driving the mini drum 7r in the image effect element 7A and the actual operation effect element 7B are controlled. In addition, the color LED lamps EL, EC, ER, E3, E4 built in the buttons 3L, 3C, 3R and the separators 33, 34 are controlled. The left and right speakers 51 and 52 and the lamps 61 to 65 are controlled from the second peripheral control unit SC2.

  The ROM of the first peripheral control unit SC1 stores an effect program that receives a transmission command from the main control unit MC and performs effect control. A lottery result deriving means X for deriving the jackpot internal lottery result to the effect device 70 by the game program of the main control unit MC and the effect program of the first peripheral control unit SC1, and an effect to appear on the effect device 70 in the derivation process An effect determining means Y for determining a pattern is constructed.

  Further, according to the production program of the first peripheral control unit SC1, the player operation intervention means Z for intervening the operation of the player operation switch 30 during the production by the specific type of production pattern, and the specific type of each production pattern are made to correspond. The event pattern selection means P for selecting one event pattern that sets the timing at which the operation of the player operation intervention means Z becomes valid from the event pattern group, and the operation of the player operation intervention means Z based on the selected event pattern The operation permission means W for permitting the operation is constructed.

  As shown in FIG. 3, in the symbol variation command processing in the main control unit MC, when there is an unprocessed jackpot lottery random number stored in the RAM at the time of starting winning (S1), the random number is read from the RAM (S2), Whether or not the jackpot is determined is determined by comparison with the winning value (S3). If the jackpot is not won, 0 is stored in the internal winning flag (S4), and the presence / absence of a lost symbol and reach is determined based on a lottery process using a random symbol for determining a lost symbol (S5). On the other hand, if the jackpot is won, 1 is stored in the internal winning flag (S6), and the left, middle and right symbol images DL, DC, and DR are prepared in accordance with the lottery process using the winning symbol determination random numbers. A winning symbol is determined (S7).

  Following step S5, the presence / absence of reach is determined (S8), and if there is no reach, production pattern number 0 that does not develop into reach and ends in a relatively short period is uniformly selected (S9). The probability of reaching is, for example, 1 / 11.3 = 0.088495575. When a big hit is won or is out of reach but with reach, depending on the internal winning flag (S10), according to the distribution ratio in the outright decision determination table according to the internal winning flag, in the big hit, the allocation in the big hit effect decision table According to the fraction, each of the effect pattern numbers 1 to 7 is determined based on the lottery process using the effect determination random numbers (S11, S12).

  When it is off, the effect pattern with a small number is selected at a high rate, and when it is a big hit, the effect pattern with a large number is selected at a high rate. After determining the effect pattern number (S9, S11, S12), an effect command specifying the effect pattern number is transmitted to the first peripheral controller SC1 (S13), and the symbol variation command process based on the one start winning is finished.

  As shown in FIG. 4, in the effect process in the first peripheral control unit SC1, when an effect command transmitted from the main control unit MC is received (S21), the image effect element 7A of the effect device 70 according to the effect pattern number is used. An effect starting from high-speed fluctuation of the left, middle, and right symbol images DL, DC, and DR is started (S22). In the background, a moving image of a character or the like is displayed as appropriate, and when there is a development to reach, after reaching the reach character or the like, it develops to reach where the left and right symbol images DL and DR are aligned.

  If the effect pattern number is 0 and the reach is out of reach (S23), there is no operation button event in which the operation of the left / middle / right buttons 3L, 3C, 3R can intervene, but if it is not 0, the first peripheral controller SC1 A random number for event pattern lottery to be managed is acquired (S24), and one operation button event pattern number is selected from an event pattern group divided corresponding to the effect pattern number according to the acquired value of the random number (S25).

  As shown in FIG. 5, among the reach development type effect pattern numbers 1 to 7, the left, middle and right buttons 3L, 3C, and 3R are operated in response to specific types of effect pattern numbers 1 to 6. An operation button event for causing the pistol gear 7p and the mini drum 7r to perform a predetermined operation can be executed. The production pattern number 7 that has the lowest appearance rate among the reach development type productions but has the highest probability of being a jackpot after the production of the productions, that is, the production of the productions, is set as another super reach production without any operation button event. Needless to say, an effect with an operation button event including the effect pattern number 7 may be used.

  In the operation button event pattern number 0, the operation button event is not started and the operation button event is not performed. For the operation button event pattern number 1, the button operation becomes effective, for example, at the operation timing T1 = 5 seconds corresponding to the development of the reach, immediately before or the first half of the reach after the start of the effect by the effect pattern number 1, and this effective state The operation duration T2 is continued for 3 seconds. For the operation button event pattern number 2, after the production by the production pattern number 1 is started, for example, the button operation becomes valid after T1 = 10 seconds corresponding to the development of reach, and this valid state is continued for T2 = 5 seconds.

  The operation button event pattern numbers 3, 5, 7, 10, and 13 correspond to the late reach time corresponding to the total effect times of the effect pattern numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, or at the time of each reach development. Button operation becomes effective after T1 = 8 seconds, 10 seconds, 12 seconds, 20 seconds, and 25 seconds, which corresponds to immediately before or the first half of reach. The operation button event pattern numbers 4, 6, 8, 11, and 14 are T1 = 18 seconds from the start of each production in the latter half of each reach by the production pattern numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 and at the end of the total production time. Button operation becomes effective after 23 seconds, 25 seconds, 30 seconds, and 40 seconds. In each case, the longer the button operation becomes effective, the longer the period in which the effective state continues is T2 = 3 seconds, 5 seconds, 7 seconds, and 8 seconds.

  The event pattern group of the production pattern numbers 5 and 6 does not include the event pattern group without the operation timing T1, but the operation button event pattern numbers 9 and 12 are the same events as the same number 1 and are unexpected when the event occurs. It is made to appear.

  Of the operation button event patterns that can be selected in each of the production patterns 1 to 6, the one with a small number is selected with a high selection rate when the internal winning flag is off. On the other hand, when the internal winning flag is a big hit of 1, the larger number is selected at a higher rate, and the higher the rate at which buttons can be operated in the second half, the higher the rate is selected. Thus, even if an effect pattern with a low jackpot reliability appears, if an operation button event starts during the effect, the expectation of the jackpot increases, and if an operation button event appears later in the effect, Expectations for jackpots are even higher than when they appear in the first half.

  As shown in FIG. 6, following step S25 of FIG. 4, when the selected operation button event pattern number is other than 0 (S26), the timer T managed by the first peripheral control unit SC1 is reset and time measurement is started. (S27) It is determined whether or not the operation timing T1 for enabling button operation has been reached (S28). When the operation timing is reached, the left, middle and right buttons 3L, 3C and 3R are operated by the built-in lamps EL, EC and ER. The green color is turned on and the separators 33 and 34 are blinked orange by the built-in lamps E3 and E4, and a message prompting the button operation is displayed on the image effect element 7A (S29).

  As shown in FIG. 7, following step S29 of FIG. 6, operation detection by the left, middle and right buttons 3L, 3C, 3R is started (S30), and any button operation is within the operation duration period T2. (S31, S32), the pistol figure gear 7p in the actual operation effect element 7B is rotated so that the muzzle is directed to the mini drum 7r and the bullet firing sound is emitted from the speakers 51, 52 in cooperation with the second peripheral control unit SC2. In response to this, the mini drum 7r is rotated (S33).

  The rotation of the mini drum 7r stops after a predetermined time such as 1 second, for example, based on the internal winning flag and a predetermined distribution lottery, “Victory” for notifying the jackpot, “Chance” for expecting the jackpot, and confirming the miss Stop any of “Lost” to be notified. The appearance ratio of “Victory”: “Chance”: “Lost” is, for example, 0:80:20 when the internal winning flag is not 0, and 20: 80: 0 when the internal winning flag is 1 Yes. After the mini drum 7r is stopped, the pistol figure gear 7p is stored in the gun belt 7b. The mini drum 7r may be rotated at the same time as or immediately before or after step S30, and may be stopped by a bullet firing sound following the rotation of the pistol gear 7p in step S33.

  After the activation of the actual motion effect element 7B in step S33 based on the button operation, or after determination of the passage of time in step S32 without the button operation, the left / middle / right buttons 3L, 3C, 3R are lit in green The orange flashing of the separators 33 and 34 is turned off, the message for prompting the button operation on the image effect element 7A is turned off (S34), and the operation detection of the left / middle / right buttons 3L, 3C, 3R is ended (S35).

  As shown in FIG. 8, when the symbol variation display is ended by the lapse of the total effect time defined for each effect pattern number (S36), the stop display of all the symbol images DL, DC, DR is fixed, 7-7-7 and other winning symbols such as 7-7-7 are stopped and displayed, and at the time of detachment, unremoved symbols such as 7-5-7 are stopped and displayed. Thereby, one production | presentation with the production | presentation apparatus 70 is finished.

The front view of this invention gaming machine. The block diagram of a control apparatus. The symbol fluctuation command process flowchart in a main-control part. The 1st part of the production process flowchart in a 1st periphery control part. A table listing the specifications of operation button event patterns. The 2nd part of the presentation process flowchart in a 1st periphery control part. The 3rd part of the presentation process flowchart in a 1st periphery control part. The 4th part of the presentation process flowchart in a 1st periphery control part.

Explanation of symbols

CN; control device, MC; main control unit, SC1; first peripheral control unit, SC2; second peripheral control unit 70; effect device, 7A; image effect element, 7B; actual operation effect element 7p; pistol figure gear, 7r; Mini-drum 30; player operation switch, 3L; left button, 3C; middle button, 3R; right button X; lottery result derivation means, Y; production determination means, Z; player operation intervention means P; event pattern selection means, W ; Operation permission means

Claims (5)

A lottery result deriving unit for deriving a lottery result related to the establishment of the special game to the effecting device, an effect determining unit for determining an effect to appear on the effecting device in the process of deriving the lottery result, and the determined specific type of effect In a gaming machine having a control device including a player operation intervention means for intervening operation of a player operation switch
The control device, an event pattern selection means for selecting one event pattern that sets the timing at which the operation of the player operation intervention means is valid from the event pattern group corresponding to each of the specific types of effects,
An operation permission means for permitting the operation of the player operation intervention means based on the selected event pattern.   The event pattern included in the event pattern group corresponding to the highly reliable production leading to the establishment of the special game has a delay tendency than the event pattern included in the event pattern group corresponding to the low reliability production. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein:   3. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the event pattern includes one in which no timing is set so that the operation of the player operation intervention means is not effective. 4.   The gaming machine according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the event pattern in which the timing is set also sets a period during which the operation of the player operation intervention means is effectively continued.   The gaming machine according to claim 4, wherein a period during which the operation of the player operation intervention means is effectively continued is set longer when a timing later than an earlier timing is set.

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