JPH07136325A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the taste by providing an almighty pattern in a group of patters of a specified pattern display among pattern displays, and surfacing a series of plural notice patterns in a group before appearance of an almighty pattern. CONSTITUTION:Out of pattern displays A-C made side by side inside a center case 3, one of the patterns constituting the pattern scroll of the pattern display A is set to an almighty pattern X and, or example, the almighty pattern X is so constituted as to be a big hit if other displays B and C are the same with each other. In the case that the almighty pattern X is selected as the pattern display A, it stops by specified mode no matter which it is a hit or a miss. That is, after variable fixed time, it is replaced with a candy pattern Z, and a series of plural notice patterns Y consisting of s, m, i, I, e scrolls in order at low speed. Then, it stops with the almighty pattern X. The candy pattern forms the notice pattern Z of the notice pattern Y.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a gaming machine such as a pachinko machine, a slot machine or the like, which is provided with a symbol combination display device having a plurality of symbol display portions.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a game ball passes through a starting gate provided with a ball detection device, which is composed of a plurality of symbol display parts which variably display various predetermined symbols, based on a ball detection signal from the ball detection device. Each symbol display unit starts the symbol fluctuation, stops and displays a symbol combination display device for displaying symbols of various combinations, and when each stopped symbol of the symbol combination display device is a predetermined combination In addition, various pachinko machines that produce a predetermined profitable operation for a player have been proposed. This profitable operation includes, for example, actuating a condition device for opening a predetermined special winning opening, or opening the special winning opening directly. In addition, in this kind of pachinko machine, there are some which make the profit content the improvement of the hit probability of the other symbol combination display device.

Further, as a device provided with a symbol combination display device, a similar configuration has been proposed for other gaming machines such as slot machines.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned gaming machine, it has been recently demanded that the content of the game be thrilling by further enhancing the expectation for a big hit.

In order to meet such a demand, it is an object of the present invention to provide a symbol combination display device capable of increasing amusement of a game by causing a variety of symbol actuations that stimulate the expectation of a big hit. It is a thing.

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention is constituted by a plurality of symbol display portions which variably display various predetermined symbols, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the symbol display portion starts to change and is stopped sequentially. Then, in the one provided with a symbol combination display device for displaying symbols of various combinations, among the symbol display parts of the symbol combination display device, in the symbol group of a predetermined symbol display part, an almighty symbol is displayed. The game machine is provided with a control command means having control contents for sequentially displaying a plurality of notice symbol groups before the appearance of the almighty symbol. Such a gaming machine,
In addition to pachinko machines, it can be applied to various game machines such as slot machines.

[0007]

The almighty symbol is a symbol that becomes a big hit combination if the other symbols are aligned with each other. And
When this symbol is displayed, a plurality of notice symbol groups are displayed. This is, for example, "su", "ma", "i",
A language having a predetermined concept is proposed, such as "le", and after this pattern is sequentially displayed, it becomes an almighty pattern. On the other hand, such a character does not always appear as an almighty symbol, and this character group also constitutes the symbol group of the symbol display unit that stops first, and is a target for lottery of the display symbol, For example, "su" and "ma" are displayed, and there is a possibility that you will stop at this "ma".
In the process, the expectations and discouragement of the player are cultivated, and the game becomes more interesting. It should be noted that this notice symbol group does not necessarily have to constitute a language, and may be one that can foresee some mutual relation.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view of a game board 1 of a pachinko machine surrounded by a guide rail 2. A ball saucer, a rotary handle for firing balls, etc. are provided at a lower portion of the pachinko machine (not shown). To be At the center of the board surface of the game board 1, a center case 3 fixed to the front of a mounting case (not shown) is arranged as shown in an enlarged view in FIG.
A symbol combination display device 4 including a dot matrix display or a liquid crystal display in which three symbol display portions A, B, and C are arranged side by side is arranged therein.

A standby storage lamp row 5 composed of four pilot lamps is provided below the center case 3.

Further, below the center case 3, there is provided a starting opening 8 equipped with a ball detection device (not shown) composed of photoelectric switches, limit switches and the like. When a game ball passes through the starting opening 8 and a ball detection signal is generated by the ball detecting device, the combination display device 4 is driven and, as with a normal winning opening, a predetermined value is provided along with the passage of the game ball. Generates several free gift balls.

On the other hand, in the upper right portion of the center case 3, as shown in an enlarged view in FIG. 3, a winning opening / closing device 10 is arranged, and the inside thereof is a special winning opening 11. This winning opening opening / closing device 10 is a closed position that shields the special winning opening 11 in a closed state of the pair of opening and closing blades 12, 12 and an open state in which the pair of opening and closing blades 12, 12 stands up to the special winning opening 11. It is controlled to be converted into an open position for guiding the ball through an electric drive means. The winning opening / closing device 10 is driven to open when the combination display device 4 hits and displays.

An electric accessory 17 is disposed below the special winning opening 11. The electric accessory 17 includes a rotating body 18 having six holes formed in the periphery thereof, an operating hole 19 and a lower passage opening 20, and is used for ball detection by a prize detection switch 21 arranged in the special prize opening 11. Correspondingly, it is possible to rotate one hole to the right to sequentially store the winning balls in the hole, and when three gaming balls are detected, or the special winning opening 11 of the winning opening opening / closing device 10 When the opening operation is completed, the rotation is constantly switched, and by this rotation operation, one ball is supplied to the operation hole 19 and the remainder flows out from the lower passage opening 20 to the back side of the board, and each of them becomes a winning ball. Then, by supplying a ball to the operation hole 19, a special operation state is set.

Below the electric accessory 17, a lower accessory 30 is arranged as shown in an enlarged view in FIG. A rotary chucker 31 in which a hole for one ball is formed in the peripheral portion is arranged above the lower accessory 30, and in the special operation state, a ball flows into the hole of the rotary chucker 31 to rotate the chucker. When balls are supplied to the chucker passage hole 32 as the ball 31 rotates, the open / close blade 41 of the electric accessory 40 integrally formed with the rotary chucker 31 is opened for 9.6 seconds (solid line position). When about 10 balls flow into the electric accessory 40, the opening operation ends even during the opening operation. When 16 game balls are won in the rotary chucker 31, the special operation state is ended.

Next, the operation of the combination display device 4 will be described.

The symbol display portion A, as shown in FIG.
It is composed of 18 symbols that form a series of circulation symbol strings. Of these, one is the almighty pattern X, and the candy pattern and "su", "ma", and
A plurality of series of notice symbol Y groups consisting of "a" and "ru" are placed in front. Here, it can be said that the almighty symbol X is a symbol equivalent to the symbol that stops first among the various hit combination symbols. The almighty symbol X may be displayed on the symbol display portion B or the symbol display portion C.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 6, the symbol display portions B and C are made up of 13 symbols constituting a series of circulation symbol patterns, and the notice symbol Y is "su", "ma", "a", " Do not have "le".

In such a structure, when a game ball is hit on the game board 1 and passes through the starting opening 8, it is composed of 235 frames stored in the storage device ROM connected to the central control unit CPU shown in FIG. One of the internal random numbers is selected and the content is stored. The number of storages is up to the first four, and the number of storages is displayed by the standby storage lamp row 5 described above.

Then, after the combination display device 4 starts to change, the hit or the loss is determined according to the selected value. At this time, it is also possible to apply the probability variation control means that improves the probability by satisfying the predetermined condition, and in this case, for example, when the probability is low,
1/235, and 8/235 when the probability is high. Then, by determining the hit, the value at each time point is selected from the internal hit symbol random number stored in the storage device ROM or the internal miss symbol random number, and each symbol display portion A, B, based on the content thereof. The stop design of C is determined. In this probability variation control means, a control mode is proposed in which the high probability state occurs between the end of the opening operation of the special winning opening 11 and the start of the next opening operation.

The above-mentioned hit symbols are 26 sets shown in FIG. As can be seen from this symbol combination, the almighty symbol X is a big hit if the other symbol display portions B and C are the same. That is, this almighty symbol X is equivalent to the symbol of the symbol display portion A among the various winning combination symbols. For this reason, when the almighty symbol X is displayed in the symbol display portion A, it is only necessary that the other symbols match each other, so that a great expectation is felt.

As the stop mode, each symbol display portion A,
B and C start to change, and after a fixed fixed time (minimum time set in advance) elapses, the change stops when they coincide with the previously determined internal stop symbols.

On the other hand, when the symbols in the symbol display portion A and the symbol display portion B match, or when the stopped symbol in the symbol display portion A is the almighty symbol X, the so-called reach state is set. In the case of this reach state, various fluctuation stop modes different from other stop modes occur. The variation mode of this reach is determined by the reach pattern random number. Then, for example, in the case where the deviation is determined and the symbol display section C is positioned before and after the circulation symbol row of the symbol display section B, the variation time of the symbol display section C is lengthened in order to give an expectation. There is proposed a stop mode in which the symbols on the symbol display portion C are temporarily stopped, and further, the symbols are returned.

Next, a description will be given of a display mode in the case where the symbol display portion A according to the main part of the present invention becomes the almighty symbol X.

As described above, the hit symbol is determined by the internal random number, the determination of the loss is made, and the stop symbol is determined by the internal hit symbol random number or the internal miss symbol random number. In this case,
When the almighty symbol X is selected as the symbol display portion A, it is stopped in the manner shown in FIG. 8 regardless of whether it hits or loses. In other words, after the above-mentioned variable fixed time, it is replaced with a candy pattern,
A series of notice symbols Y group consisting of "ma", "a", and "ru" (4 symbols) are sequentially scrolled at a low speed, and then stopped at the almighty symbol X. Here, the candy symbol can be referred to as the notice symbol Z of the notice symbol Y.

As a result, the notice symbol Y, which is the notice symbol Z of the notice symbol Y, is used to presume the notice symbol Y, and further, the notice symbol Y is used to sense the almighty symbol X. And "S", which is the notice symbol Y,
By slowly scrolling at the speed at which "Ma", "A", and "Ru" can be visually recognized, the sense of expectation is stimulated and uplifted in combination with the concept of words.

After the symbol display section A is stopped, the symbol display section B scrolls four symbols at a high speed and further stops a predetermined symbol at a medium speed. Then, in this case, the reach state is reached, and thereafter, the symbol display portion C changes in the special mode as described above, and in the case of a hit, the same symbol as the symbol display portion B is displayed on the symbol display portion C. Will be issued,
In case of loss, other patterns will appear.

On the other hand, the stop symbol of the symbol display portion A is
In the case of any of "su", "ma", "a", and "le", as shown in FIG. 9, replace with a candy design,
After the candy symbol and one symbol are exposed, the symbols are combined to obtain the symbol. And this "su", "ma",
Since "a" and "le" are not in the symbol display portions B and C, the possibility of a big hit disappears due to the stop of the symbol. As a result, the player enjoys a sense of anticipation and disappointment in the process, and the game becomes more interesting.

In the case of a specific relational pattern which is a big hit in this way, the speaker shown in FIG. 8 emits a sound, and as described above, the winning opening / closing device 10 opens to give a predetermined gain. Will be provided to

When game balls continuously flow into the starting port 8, the standby recording lamp row 5 is sequentially turned on and stored up to four times.

Various other ways of providing the gain associated with the big hit may be provided, such as disposing a special winning opening having a large opening below and opening it.

The above-described series of operations can be easily executed by the control command means including the central control unit CPU and the like shown in FIG. Further, each random number generating means is configured by using a storage device ROM or a refresh counter in the central control unit CPU.

Although the three symbol display parts A, B, and C are applied to the above, a symbol combination display device composed of two symbol display parts A and B can also be applied.
In this case, the symbol display section A displays the almighty symbol X
When is stopped, a profit may be given such as making the big hit probability of the other symbol combination display device a high probability.

Further, in the above description, the structure in which the symbol display portions A, B and C are sequentially stopped has been described, but various stop orders are proposed. Furthermore, as already described, it may be displayed on the symbol display portion B or the symbol display portion C. The pachinko machine has been described above as an example, but it can also be applied to various gaming machines including a symbol combination display device such as a slot machine.

[0034]

As described above, the present invention provides an almighty symbol X among various hit combination symbols in the symbol group of a predetermined symbol display part of the symbol combination display device, and the almighty symbol Before the appearance of X, a series of notice symbols Y group are displayed one after another, so the expectation for the appearance of the almighty symbol X,
It is possible to raise the notice pattern Y group by the expression, and there is an excellent effect that the interest of this type of gaming machine can be increased.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a game board 2 of a pachinko machine 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the symbol combination display device 4 of the present invention.

3 is a front view of the winning opening / closing device 10. FIG.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a lower accessory 30.

FIG. 5 is an array diagram showing a circulation symbol sequence of the symbol display portion A.

FIG. 6 is an array diagram showing a circulation symbol sequence of symbol display portions B and C.

FIG. 7 is a combination pattern diagram of winning symbols.

8 is a time chart diagram when an almighty symbol X is selected in the symbol display portion A. FIG.

FIG. 9 is a time chart diagram when a notice symbol Y is selected in the symbol display portion A.

FIG. 10 is a block circuit diagram showing a central control unit CPU.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Pachinko machine 4 Design combination display device 8 Starting port 10 Winner opening / closing device 11 Special winning port 17 Electric prize 30 Lower part 40 Electric prize A, B, C Symbol display X Almighty symbol Y Notice symbol

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of symbol display units that variably display various predetermined symbols. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, the symbol display unit starts changing, and the symbols are sequentially stopped and various combinations of symbols are displayed. In the one provided with the symbol combination display device for displaying, in the symbol display part of the symbol combination display device, in the symbol group of the predetermined symbol display part, an almighty symbol is provided, and before the appearance of the almighty symbol 2. A gaming machine characterized by comprising a control command means having control contents for sequentially displaying a series of notice symbol groups. 2. When a game ball passes through a starting opening provided with a ball detection device, which is composed of a plurality of symbol display portions that variably display various predetermined symbols, based on a ball detection signal from the ball detection device. The symbol display unit starts to change, and then sequentially stops to display a symbol combination display device for displaying symbols of various combinations. In the symbol display unit of the symbol combination display device, any In the symbol group of the symbol display unit, an almighty symbol is provided, and a control command means is provided which has a control content for sequentially displaying a plurality of series of notice symbol groups before the appearance of the almighty symbol. A game machine consisting of a pachinko machine.