JP2010201076A - Token game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a token game machine for improving game features, giving expectations to a player, and motivating the player to continue to play a game by putting-out a considerable amount of tokens to the player when the player wins in a slot, recording the win result after putting-out the tokens, establishing a symbol combination by sequentially combining subsequent several win results, and putting-out a larger amount of tokens and providing an event by the symbol combination. <P>SOLUTION: A pusher table is repetitively moved in front and rear directions. When the token is thrown-in and enters an effective checker, slot lottery is performed. When a winning symbol combination is obtained in the slot lottery, the corresponding number of tokens are put-out and also a winning symbol combination is displayed in one of winning symbol combination establishment display parts 26. When the symbol combination is established by displaying the three winning symbol combinations, the event, or the like, is generated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a medal game in which a slot lottery is generated by inserting a medal and a medal is paid out according to the lottery result. The present invention relates to a medal gaming machine that performs larger medal payout or event occurrence when a winning combination is established.

The traditional medal pusher machine starts lottery on the screen etc. by passing the medal through a checker provided in the play field, and when the lottery is won, a lot of medals are paid out, a new event etc. Is to win.
In order to improve playability, in addition to medals as the first game medium, a second game medium such as a ball is separately used for events and payouts.
Furthermore, there is a gaming machine on which a winning record is displayed for reference when a player selects a playground.

In the conventional pusher machine, the lottery performed on the screen is completed there.
For example, even if a small win occurs several times, there are few medals to be paid out to the player, and the satisfaction is weakened, and there is a high possibility that the opportunity to continue the game will be lost. Also, when the lottery was over and when the event such as payout was over, there was nothing connected to the next event, and it was difficult to continue the expectation.
In order to improve this, some medals, which are the first game media, use a second game medium such as a ball separately to perform events and payouts, but this is mechanically large. This is not possible with a small housing.
In addition, the display of the winning result value is merely displayed because it is a guideline for the player to select a stand.

JP-A-4-24039 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-333088

There are the following gaming machines that perform the lottery as described above.
Patent Document 1 is a gaming machine such as a pachinko machine or a slot machine that earns profits when certain winning conditions are established, and the player loses their share due to failure.
Further, Patent Document 2 is a lottery game apparatus provided with a winning achievement display device, and aims to be able to perform various displays according to the type of winning. In other words, a storage means for storing past winning achievement values within a predetermined period, a display means for graphic images, a graphic processing means for outputting a graphic image corresponding to the winning achievement results value to the display means, and lottery determination of internal winning The internal winning determination means performed by the player, and the production operation means indicating the game hit / decision are provided, and the production operation means performs the production operation influenced by both the internal winning determination result and a phenomenon unrelated thereto. .
Patent Documents 1 and 2 are similar to the game contents described above.

  The object of the present invention is to pay out a corresponding medal to a player when a slot is won, and then record the winning result, and then combine several winning results in order to establish a winning combination, and pay out a larger medal depending on the winning combination. It is to provide a medal game machine that improves playability and provides motivation for expectation and game continuation by providing events and events.

In order to achieve the above object, claim 1 of the present invention generates a slot lottery by inserting medals, and in a medal gaming machine that pays out medals according to the lottery result, if the slot lottery wins, a corresponding medal is awarded to the player. After the payout, the recording means for recording the information indicating the winning contents, and the information indicating the winning contents are sequentially recorded by the recording means, and the arrangement of the recorded winning contents is a plurality of predetermined roles. In the case of one, it is characterized in that it includes payout of medals given by the corresponding combination or a combination generating means for generating an event.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the invention, there is provided an operation means, and the combination generating means records a winning when the operation means is operated after a medal is paid out by winning. It is characterized by not performing.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, a slot stock display for displaying the number of stocks generated by slot lottery on the display screen, and the contents and number of winnings generated by the lottery are displayed. In this way, a winning combination establishment display indicating the possibility of establishment of a combination is performed.
Claim 4 of the present invention is the invention according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein a plurality of medal checkers are arranged, and a pusher base for dropping and paying out medals from the field by pushing the medals accumulated in the field at the tip. If the inserted medals enter a predetermined checker, the lottery is started by rotating the slot on the display screen, and if the prize is won by lottery, the number of medals corresponding to the contents of the prize is added to the pusher table and the field. It is characterized by paying up.

  According to the above configuration, since the combination is established by various combinations, the game performance is improved and the player is not bored. In particular, if the player is of a type that allows the player to select a role, the strategy can be improved and the player can be interested. Each time a slot wins, the next chance will be generated, and even if it is a small win, it will have a sense of expectation that a big bonus will come, and the player can be motivated to continue the game. The playability can be improved even with a small housing that cannot incorporate the second game medium such as a ball.

It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance of the medal game machine by this invention. It is a front external view which shows the detail of the terminal part of the medal game machine of FIG. It is the figure which extracted and showed only the monitor and medal pusher mechanism of a terminal part. It is a figure for demonstrating the example of a slot prize winning. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the process from a slot prize winning to a winning combination, and has shown the state where the 1st display part of the winning combination possibility display part is displayed. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the process from a slot prize winning to a winning combination, and has shown the state in which all the display parts of the winning combination possibility display part were displayed. It is a figure which shows the example of a winning combination. It is a block diagram which shows embodiment of the circuit of the terminal part of the medal game machine by this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the flow of the game of the medal game machine by this invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an appearance of a medal gaming machine according to the present invention.
The medal gaming machine 1 has eight terminal portions 10 that are single medal games along a circumference, and has a main play field 2 above each terminal portion.
The main play field 2 is rotating, and when the player obtains a bonus stage at each terminal, the player can play the bonus stage when the turn at which the player can play is turned. For example, a lottery for taking a progressive jackpot is performed, or the number of progressive jackpots accumulated by all the members is displayed.

FIG. 2 shows details of the terminal portion of the medal gaming machine of FIG.
A monitor 4 for displaying a slot machine for performing lottery is arranged on the front. Three slot reels are displayed in the monitor, and each slot reel is stopped at the portions “R1”, “B1”, and “B2”. Decorative lamps 12 and 12 are arranged on the left and right, and a pusher mechanism is arranged in front of the monitor 4. In the pusher mechanism, the pusher table 9 reciprocates back and forth on the play field 14, and medals accumulated on the play field 14 are pushed on the front surface of the pusher table 9 on which a number of checkers 11 are provided. It is moved forward and falls from the edge of the play field 14 and is paid out to the medal payout slot 8.

Medal entries 5 and 5 for inserting medals are provided on the left and right sides of the play field 14. When the player aims to enter the checker and inserts a medal into the medal entry, the medal is sent out into the play area through the guide. If the medal enters a specific (valid) checker, the slot machine starts a lottery. If the medal does not enter, it accumulates on the pusher table 9 or the play field 14.
The terminal portion is covered with a transparent plate, and only the gripping portion 5a of the medal entry portion 5 protrudes outside the transparent plate. The operation panel surface 13 is provided with an operation unit 6 for the player to select the content of the medal game.

FIG. 3 shows only the monitor of the terminal unit and the medal pusher mechanism, and is a diagram for explaining details of the medal pusher game.
The game screen of the monitor 24 displays a slot stock display portion 27 having 10 display lighting portions on the upper portion and a winning combination establishment display portion 26 having three display portions indicating the contents of winning combinations. In the center, slot reels 25a, 25b and 25c are displayed.
A pusher base 29 repeatedly moves in the direction of an arrow 39 on the upper surface of the play field 35 of the medal pusher mechanism. Seven checkers 31 each including a medal passage hole are arranged on the front surface of the pusher base 29, and a mechanical medal detection unit 38 for detecting that a medal has entered each checker is provided. A lottery of slots is performed when a checker with a valid display 37 is entered among a number of checkers.

A large number of medals 36a and 36b accumulated on the pusher table 29 and the play field 35 are medals that the player has inserted but did not enter the checker.
When the pusher base 29 repeats the back and forth movement in the direction of the arrow 39, the medals 36a accumulated on the pusher base 29 hit the back wall 40 and fall onto the play field 35 when the pusher base 29 moves backward. Then, when the pusher base 29 moves forward, the medals 36b accumulated on the play field are pushed on the front surface of the pusher base 29, and further pushed by the medals so that when they reach the edge 35a of the play field 35, they fall to the payout opening. It has become.

  When a medal enters the checker of the valid display 37, if there is no stock, a lottery is started, but if there is a stock, one slot lottery stock is added. The slot stock display section 27 in FIG. 3 is in a state where four slot lotteries are stocked. The lottery is performed by starting the rotation of the slot reels 25a, 25b and 25c and stopping the rotation one by one, and the symbols of the slot reels are displayed on the effective line. In the example of FIG. 3, the state where the symbols “R1”, “R1”, and “R1” are aligned is shown.

FIG. 4 shows an example of winning contents when each symbol is won together.
“R1”, “R1”, and “R1” are states in which “1” of red symbols are aligned, and 30 medals are paid out. “G2”, “G2” and “G2” are green symbols “2”, “Y2”, “Y2” and “Y2” are yellow symbols “2”, and “B1”, “B1” and “B1” are blue symbols “2”. “1” is in a state where 15, 10, and 15 medals are paid out, respectively.
The winning combination establishment display section 26 of FIG. 3 shows an example in which the winning combination content “R1” (red symbol 1) is displayed on the first display section.

5 and 6 are diagrams for explaining an example of a process for establishing a winning combination.
In FIG. 5, a red symbol “1” is aligned in the slot lottery and a red symbol “1” is displayed on the first display portion 26 a of the winning combination establishment display portion 26.
The lottery advances, and in FIG. 6, the red symbol “1” is displayed on the first display unit 26a of the winning combination establishment display unit 26, and the yellow symbol “1” is displayed on the second display unit 26b. A state where the blue symbol “1” is displayed on the display portion 26c is shown.

FIG. 7 shows an example of winning combination.
The display arranged in the winning combination establishment display section 26 in FIG. 6 has the number “1” and the colors are red, yellow, and blue, and indicates that the combination shown in 53 has been established. An event corresponding to a role occurs.
In addition, there are a hand 51 whose number is “1” and all red, a hand 52 whose color is the same green and different in number, and a hand 54 whose number is the same and whose color is different. Each combination corresponds to, for example, a large amount of medals, mini games, jackpots, and the like.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the circuit of the terminal portion of the medal gaming machine according to the present invention.
The game circuit system includes a CPU 60, an image processing unit 61, a memory unit 62, an interface circuit 63, a medal detection unit 38, a drive circuit 67, a medal pusher mechanism 68, a sound processing unit 69, a speaker 70, a drive circuit 71, a medal payout mechanism 72, and A cancel button 76 that is an operation button is provided.
When the player inserts a medal into the medal entry 64 and the medal enters the checker, the medal detection unit 38 detects this and reports it to the CPU 60. The memory unit 62 stores a control program 62a for controlling the entire medal gaming machine, game software 72b for the medal game, and game data 72c. The CPU 60 realizes the function of the game control unit 60a by reading the control program 62a. Moreover, the functions of the game execution unit 60b and the pusher control unit 60c are realized by reading the game software 72b.

The game control unit 60a controls the entire game machine, performs screen display processing in a standby state, screen display processing after the game ends, etc., issues an instruction to the image processing unit 61, and displays such a screen on the liquid crystal display unit 24. indicate.
When the game execution unit 60b inserts a medal into the checker and receives a report of medal detection and detects that a valid checker has been entered, the game execution unit 60b rotates the slot reel on the screen of the liquid crystal display unit 24 to detect each slot. If the process of stopping the reel is performed and the result is winning, the medal is paid out, the winning combination is stored in the memory part in the CPU 60, and the winning combination establishment display section 26 is lit to indicate the contents of the winning combination. At this time, when the player presses the cancel button 76 as an operation unit, the information is sent to the game execution unit 60b, and the winning combination in the winning combination establishment display unit 26 for establishing a combination is not displayed. When the winning combination is displayed by the three winning combination displays on the winning combination display section 26, an event is generated.
If a valid checker has entered a medal, but there are already many slot stocks, one of the slot stock display sections 27 is additionally displayed, and a lottery based on this display is awaited.

The game execution unit 60b gives an instruction to the drive circuit 71 in order to pay out the number of medals corresponding to the winning by winning, and pays out the medal from the medal paying out port 8 to the receiving tray 7 by the medal paying mechanism 72.
The pusher control unit 60c instructs the drive circuit 67 to control the pusher base 29 of the medal pusher mechanism 68 so as to repeatedly move back and forth.
The game execution unit 60b instructs the sound processing unit 69 to output a sound corresponding to the sound from the speaker 70 when winning or when a winning combination is established. Also, corresponding music and background sounds are output from the speaker 70 during standby or at the end of the game.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart for explaining a game flow of the medal gaming machine according to the present invention. Hereinafter, the operation will be described along the flow of the medal game.
The player inserts medals from the medal entry 5 one after another (step (hereinafter referred to as “S”) 01).
The game execution unit 60b monitors whether or not the inserted medal has entered the checker (S02). If it does not enter the checker, it is determined whether there is a slot stock (S03). If there is a slot stock, a slot lottery is performed (S04). If a medal enters a valid checker in S02, a slot lottery is performed (S04).

As a result of the slot lottery, it is determined whether or not a prize has been won (S05). If no prize is awarded, no winning process is performed. If a prize is awarded, medals are paid out for the number of winning combinations corresponding to the slot reels (S06). ). For example, if three red symbols “1” are arranged, 30 medals are paid out (see FIG. 4).
Then, it is determined whether or not a cancel button has been operated (S07). If the cancel button is operated, the winning combination is not held. That is, the winning combination establishment display section 26 by this winning combination is not displayed. In this game, whether or not the player holds a winning combination can be selected with a cancel button, so that the strategy is further increased. If there is no operation of the cancel button, it is determined whether or not there is a winning stock (S08), and if there is a winning stock, it is determined whether or not the winning combination is aligned (S09).

If it is not in a line that allows a combination, clear the previous stock and stock the winning combination.
For example, if a winning combination is entered in one of the winning combination establishment display units 26 and the winning combination is not in a line that can be played even if the second winning combination is entered, the previous winning combination is cleared and the current winning combination is cleared. The winning combination is stocked in the first winning combination establishment display section 26 (S11). That is, the current winning combination is stored in the memory portion of the CPU 60, and the winning combination is displayed on the first winning combination establishment display section 26.
The same process is performed when there are two winning combinations in the winning combination establishment display section 26. If the winning combination is arranged in S09, the winning combination is stocked in the winning combination establishment display section 26 (S10).

Next, it is determined whether or not a combination is established (S12). If the winning combination is not established, the winning combination determination process is terminated. If the combination is established, an event is generated (S13). For example, if three consecutive winning combinations are the same as the designated combination, an event (medal payout, mini game, etc.) corresponding to the combination is generated.
Every time a slot is selected and a slot is won, steps S06 to S13 are repeated.

  In the above embodiment, an example has been described in which a winning combination is established with three winning combination establishment display units that display winning combinations one by one, but two or four winning combination establishment display units are displayed. The winning combination may be performed with more than one. Also, an example in which means for selecting whether or not to hold a winning combination in the winning combination establishment display unit by a cancel button after winning a prize in the game flow and paying out a corresponding number of medals has been described. Such a cancel button is not provided, and it is also possible to make it impossible for the player to select a combination (forcibly displaying in the order in which the winning combination is won).

  This is a commercial medal gaming machine installed at an event venue or game center.

1 medal gaming machine
2 Main play field
4 Monitor
5,64 medal entry
6 Operation section 7 Sampling tray 8 Medal payout slot 9, 29 Pusher base 10 Terminal section 11, 31 Checker 12 Decoration lamp 14, 35 Play field
24 Monitor (Liquid Crystal Display)
25a, 25b, 25c Slot part 26 Winning combination establishment display part 27 Slot stock display part 36a, 36b Medal 37 Effective display 38 Mechanical medal detector 60 CPU
62 Memory part 63 Interface circuit 67, 71 Drive circuit
68 Medal pusher mechanism 72 Medal payout mechanism

Claims (4)

In a medal gaming machine that generates a slot lottery by inserting medals and pays out medals according to the lottery result,
When the slot lottery wins, after paying out corresponding medals to the player, recording means for recording information indicating the winning content;
When the recording means records the information indicating the winning contents in order, and the array of the recorded winning contents corresponds to one of a plurality of predetermined combinations, the payout of medals given by the corresponding combination or the event A role generating means for generating
A medal gaming machine characterized by comprising Having operating means;
2. The medal gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein when the operation means is operated after the medal is paid out by winning, the winning combination means does not record the winning. Slot stock display that displays the number of stocks that have been generated by slot lottery on the display screen, and
The medal gaming machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a winning combination display indicating the possibility of winning a combination is displayed by displaying the contents and number of winnings generated in the lottery. A plurality of medal checkers are arranged, and has a pusher stand that drops and pays out medals from the field by pushing the medals accumulated in the field with the tip.
When the inserted medal enters the predetermined checker, the lottery is started by rotating the slot on the display screen. When winning a prize by lottery, the number of medals according to the winning content is paid on the pusher table and the field. The medal gaming machine according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the medal gaming machine is provided.

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