JPH0549755A - Image displayed card game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To satisfactory perform a game by displaying a designated unnecessary card on an unnecessary card display part, and by exchanging and distributing a card on an exchange card displaying part, therefor, by displaying the front face of the card, and by displaying the front faces of all cards after completion of the game. CONSTITUTION:When a medal is inserted for a poker game, the front surfaces of five cards are displayed on a player card display part (u) while the back faces of five cards are displayed on an exchange card display part (t). For example, in the case of aiming at a straight flush, the nine, eight and seven of diamonds are held but other two are to be exchanged. The eight of spades and the ten of hearts are shifted to and displayed on an unnecessary card display part (s), and of the turned-over cards, the cards (a, b) on the display part (t) are shifted to the original positions of the card having been shifted, being substituted for the latter with the front surfaces thereof being displayed. If these cards are the six and ten of diamonds, the combination of a straight flush is established, and then the front surfaces of the remaining cards on the display part (t) are displayed so as to complete the game. Thus, it is possible to perform a satisfactory game.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card game machine for displaying a picture of a card such as a playing card on a display screen and changing the display screen by a button operation of a player to advance a game such as poker. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a card game such as a poker game which uses this type of image display, when a game is started,
Five cards are distributed on the display screen with the patterns of the cards facing up. A player operates a button to play a game by exchanging a predetermined number of unnecessary cards or less, and gives a score according to the result of the game.

[0003]

In many conventional games of this type, when the game is started, a necessary card is held by a button operation by a player among the five cards distributed on the display screen. Then, a new card will be exchanged and distributed in place of the remaining unnecessary card, a new pattern etc. will be displayed at the corresponding card position, and the result of the game will be judged, so skillfulness in determining necessary / unnecessary card, The game ended without knowing luck or bad luck, and after the game ended, the player wondered if there was another choice, and often felt unsatisfied, which made the game less interesting.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides a player card display unit distributed to a player on a display screen and an unnecessary card selected by the player. Instead, it has a replacement card display section for new distribution and an unnecessary card display section after replacement, and if there are remaining cards at the end of the game, all remaining cards are turned upside down and displayed. The main point is card game machines.

[0005]

In the image display card game according to the present invention, after the game is over, the front images of all the cards used in the game can be seen.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an external view showing a card game machine embodying the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a main body, and 2 is a front door, which is openably and closably attached to the main body 1 via a hinge (not shown) on the left side surface for inspecting and maintaining the inside of the main body and collecting and replenishing medals. ing. Reference numeral 3 is a display panel on which the name of the machine is written. A display screen 4 displays a game image and uses a CRT. Reference numeral 5 is a control panel on which operation buttons for game progress are arranged. 6 is a medal insertion slot, 7 is a medal payout slot, and 8 is a medal tray for payout medals.

FIG. 2 is a layout view of operation buttons on the control panel 5 for progressing the game in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, a deal draw button 10, a max bet button 11, a 1 bet button 12, a double down button 13, a small button 14, a big button 15, a collect. Payout button 16, a hold button 17a ...
Various buttons such as 17e are arranged.

FIG. 3 is a system block diagram showing a basic control processing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, a CPU 30 performs various arithmetic processes to process input signals and output signals. The ROM 31 stores programs for controlling the entire game, characters, various data related to cards such as pattern data of cards, programs related to image processing, and the like in respective dedicated areas.

The RAM 32 has a memory for storing the number of medals inserted prior to the start of the game, an area for storing data such as a combination of cards, the number of winning games, and the number of payouts, a player card display section, and a replacement card display. Areas of several variables are allocated such as the memory of the arrangement position of the cards such as the section and the unnecessary card display section and the picture code memory.

The CRT controller 35 is the CPU 30.
Among the image data of the characters and the card patterns stored in the ROM 31 corresponding to the control operation of, the image pattern data of the patterns necessary for displaying the image on the screen of the CRT 39,
While storing in the character generator 33,
The video RAM (V RAM) 34 has the CRT 39
Store the object code of the design, which position is displayed on the screen, and which design is displayed. The CRT controller 35 sends the image pattern data stored in the character generator 33 corresponding to the position data in the video RAM 34 to the priority controller 36 in response to the control operation of the CPU 30. The priority controller 36 determines the priority for overlapping the images, and sends the color position data to the color RAM 37.
Is the video modulator 3 for converting the color data of each bit of the image.
Send to 8. The video modulator 38 is the color RAM 3 described above.
The parallel digital color data sent from 7 is converted into serial data and analog signals, synchronized with the video signals, sent to the CRT 39, and a predetermined image is displayed on the display screen 4.

An input medal detector 41 for detecting inserted medals and a control panel 5 are provided in the input port 40.
Game progress operation buttons 10 to 17 arranged in
And a medal payout detector 46 for detecting medals paid out from the hopper 45 is connected. The output port 42 has a lamp driving circuit 43 for lighting the operation buttons 10 to 17 for game progression arranged on the control panel 5, and a hopper 45 for driving a hopper 45 for paying out a predetermined number of winning medals. A drive circuit 44, a counter drive circuit 47 for driving a counter 48 for recording the total number of paid out medals,
Speakers 50 for playing different melody during a game or win are connected via a sound drive circuit 49. The above configuration is the description of the functional unit of the image display card game machine.

FIGS. 4 to 6 are flow charts showing the above-mentioned structure implemented in a poker game. First, when a medal is inserted into the medal insertion slot 6 of FIG. 1, step 41
Becomes "YES" and the process proceeds to step 42, and referring to FIG. 7, the WAG at the left end of the number display portion v on the display screen 4 is displayed.
1 is displayed on the ER number display portion, and the bet number is set in the dedicated area of the RAM 32. Further, the winning number display section r on the display screen 4 displays the winning number for each winning combination. (FIG. 7 shows the numbers when five medals were inserted)

Then, the process proceeds to step 43, and without starting, the process proceeds to step 44 ("NO" at step 43), and one more medal is inserted.
4 becomes "YES" and the process proceeds to step 45, 1 is further added to the WAGER number display of the number display part v, 1 is added to the bet number in the dedicated area of the RAM 32, and the winning number display part r is displayed. The number of displays of will also increase.

Then, the process proceeds to step 46, and it is determined whether or not 5 medals have already been inserted. If the number of medals has not reached 5, step 46 becomes "NO" and step 43
Return to. If you start by pressing the deal.draw button 10 on the control panel 5, the step 43 will be "
If "YES", the process proceeds to step 48, and ten cards randomly selected from a set of playing cards (53 cards) are displayed on the player card display portion u on the display screen 4.
In addition, five cards are displayed on the front side, and five cards turned upside down are displayed in the exchange card display portion t in a state of being overlapped by about 2/3, and the game is started.

When the additional medals are to be continuously inserted without starting at the step 43, the same steps as the steps 44, 45, 46, 43 are repeated until the number of medals reaches 5. .. When the number of inserted medals reaches 5, the step 46 is "YE
S ”and proceed to step 47 to start automatically,
Proceed to step 48, and randomly selected 1 as above.
Five cards are displayed in the player card display portion u on the display screen 4 in the state of being turned upside down, and five cards are turned over in the exchange card display portion t in a state of being piled up about 2/3.

FIG. 7 shows an example of the card display displayed on the display screen 4 in step 48. Note that the WAGER display number at the left end of the number display portion v is "5", which indicates that five medals have been inserted.

The game proceeds to step 49. Next, the player leaves any of the dealt cards to be kept at hand and establishes a winning combination.
Replace unnecessary cards. According to the present embodiment, a rule is adopted in which up to 5 cards at a time, that is, all cards can be exchanged.

By the way, paying attention to the card pattern distributed to the player shown in FIG. 7, 2 is displayed as "8" of spade in the player card display portion u.
There is a "Diamond" 8 "" in the, and one pair can be seen.
In addition, 1 is "Diamond" 9 "and 5 is" Diamond "7""
Is seen and there are a total of 3 diamonds. Moreover, 3 cards are serial numbers.

[0021] Here, leave the "8" of spades and "8" of diamonds, and replace the other three cards to aim for a combination of two pairs, three cards, full house, four cards, etc. , Or leave 3 diamonds and exchange the other 2 cards, straight, flush,
Alternatively, it is a choice whether to aim at a combination such as a straight flash. As a matter of doubt, as an example, the operation of leaving the necessary cards when the latter straight and flash are aimed will be described.

The five hold buttons of the operation buttons 17a to 17e arranged on the control panel 5 shown in FIG. 2 correspond to respective cards displayed on the player card display section u on the display screen 4. By pressing the button, the lamp inside the button lights up, and the player is informed that the corresponding card has been held. When you press the lit hold button again, the lamp goes off and the hold is released.

Then, the first hold button 17a is pressed to hold "9" on the diamond.
The third hold button 17c is pressed to hold "diamond" 8 "", and further "diamond" 7 "" is held by pressing the fifth hold button 17e. In this way, three "diamonds" are held. Card will be left and the other two will be exchanged.

After confirming that the hold button is lit, if there is no change, by pressing the Deal Draw button 10, step 50 becomes "YES" and the process proceeds to step 51.
Cards other than the held cards, ie, "8" of spades and 4 in player card display u
"Heart of" 10 "" in 2 are moved and displayed in the unnecessary card display section s, and 2 out of 5 out of the 5 cards displayed in the exchange card display section t inside out. Each of the cards is displayed in turn, flipping over, in the original position of the card that was just moved.

The exchanged cards are both "diamonds" as shown in the images a and b of the player card display portion u in FIG. 8, and are "6" and "1".
If it is “0”, the combination of the straight flush is established, and the determination of the game in step 54 is “YES”,
In step 55, the combination is detected, the straight flash combination name in the combination display portion q blinks,
In addition to notifying that the combination has been established, the number of winning medals "250" is displayed on the WIN at the left end of the number display portion v of the display screen 4. Then, in step 56, the remaining cards in the exchange card display portion t are turned upside down and displayed, the poker game end screen shown in FIG. 9 is displayed, and the process advances to the next "double down game or medal acquisition" step.

Returning to the selection of the above-mentioned combination, leaving the former one pair of "8" of spades and "8" of diamonds and exchanging the other three cards, two pairs, three cards, Assuming a combination of full house, four card, etc., as shown in FIG. 10a,
The 1, 4 and 5 cards of the player card display section u are moved to the unnecessary card display section s and displayed, and the a, b and c cards marked with diagonal lines of the exchange card display section t are replaced and turned over. Is displayed.

Looking at the card arrangement, there is only one pair of "8" of spades and "8" of diamonds,
As a result, the combination is not established, and step 54 is "N".
O ”, and in step 57, the remaining cards in the exchange card display portion t are turned upside down and displayed, and the game is over.

If the five cards distributed to the exchange card display section t
If the one card has the content shown in FIG. 10B, for example, the selection to leave the above-mentioned one pair corresponds to the figure, and the configuration shown in the player card display portion u in the figure is obtained, and the four-card combination is established. Even if the same selection is made in this way, the difference between winning and losing can be greatly divided depending on the contents of the exchange cards distributed.

If it is determined that the five cards dealt to the player are scattered from the beginning and are unworthy of selection, by pressing all the draw buttons without pressing all the hold buttons, the step 52 is performed. Is "YE
S ", all cards are exchanged and distributed in step 53, and the cards are turned over and displayed on the player card display portion u.
Then, in the same manner as described above in step 54, the determination of the game is made, and in the case of winning, it becomes "YES", the combination is detected in step 55, and the established combination name (corresponding name in the combination display portion q in FIG. 9) is obtained. It blinks and proceeds to step 56. In this case, since there are no remaining cards and the poker game end screen shown in FIG. 9 has already been reached, the process directly proceeds to the next "double down game or medal acquisition" step. ..

Continuing, a double-down game or a stage for winning medals. In this embodiment, the stage is configured as shown in the flow chart of FIG. Step 61
At, it is determined whether or not the number of won sheets has reached the upper limit. If not reached, "NO" is returned to and the process proceeds to step 62 to start or select the double down game. 2, the double down button 13 and the collect payout button 16 arranged on the control panel 5 become effective, and if the payout of the number of medals is to be paid out, the collect payout button 16 is pushed. The step 62 becomes "NO" and the process proceeds to the step 67 to pay out the winning number of medals and the game is over.

If the double down game is started, by pressing the double down button 13, step 62 becomes "YES" and the process proceeds to step 63, the display screen 4 is changed to the double down game, and the card is One is displayed upside down. And small button 1
4 and the big button 15 are activated. The player will bet whether the card is greater than or less than seven. In step 64, when the player selects the small button 14 or the big button 15, the process proceeds to step 65 and it is determined whether the player wins or loses. In the case of winning, the result is "YES", the process proceeds to step 66, the number of won is doubled, and the process returns to step 61. In step 65, if it is not a win, it becomes “NO”, and it proceeds to step 68 and it is judged whether it is a draw or a loss. In case of loss, it becomes “NO” and loses the bet number,
The game is over. In the step 68, if the draw is a draw, the bet number remains the same, and this step becomes “YES”, the process returns to the step 61, and it is again determined whether or not the winning number has reached the upper limit. If it is determined in step 61 that the number of won coins has reached the upper limit, this step becomes "YES" and the process proceeds to step 67 to pay out the number of medals and the game is over.

[0032]

As is apparent from the above description, the card game according to the present invention has the following effects. At the end of the game, all cards will be displayed upside down, so
Whether the player's choice of cards was the better choice or the good or bad of the choice can be seen from the cards distributed to the player and the arrangement order of the exchange cards, so that a satisfactory game can be played. In addition, it is possible to further enhance the interest of the game, and to eliminate the distrust associated with the card distribution of the card game.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view showing a card game machine embodying the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a layout view of operation buttons on a control panel 5 for progressing the game in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a system block diagram showing a basic control processing system of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of an operation performed in this embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of an operation performed in this embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the operation performed in this embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a plan view showing a specific example of image display contents.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a specific example of image display contents.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing a specific example of image display contents.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of image display contents.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Main body, 2 ... Front door, 3 ... Display panel, 4 ...
Display screen, 5 ... control panel, 6 ... medal insertion slot, 7 ... medal payout slot, 8 ... medal tray, 10 ... deal.draw button, 11 ... max bet button, 1
2 ... 1 bet button, 13 ... Double down button, 14
... small button, 15 ... big button, 16 ... collect. Payout button, 17a to 17e ... hold button, 30 ... CPU, 31 ... ROM, 32 ... RAM, 33
… Character generator, 34… V RAM, 3
5 ... CRT controller, 36 ... Priority controller, 37 ... Color RAM, 38 ... Video modulator, 39 ... CRT, 40 ... Input port, 41 ... Inserted medal detector, 42 ... Output port, 43 ... Lamp drive circuit,
44 ... Hopper drive circuit, 45 ... Hopper, 46 ... Medal payout detector, 47 ... Counter drive circuit, 48 ... Counter, 49 ... Sound drive circuit, 50 ... SP (speaker),

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image display card game machine is provided with a player card display section, a replacement card display section for an upside-down image of a card to be exchange-distributed, and a replaced unnecessary card display section on a display screen. Of the cards distributed to, the player removes the designated unnecessary cards and moves them to the unnecessary card display section based on the player's specified number of unnecessary cards to be replaced, and replaces the removed cards. An image display card game machine, characterized in that the cards in the card display section are exchanged and distributed to be displayed upside down, and at the end of the game, all the cards are displayed in an upside down image.