JPH08155076A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To exactly confirm state information of the game machine by displaying game machine state information on a picture display part while utilizing state report signals for reporting information on the various states of the game machine. CONSTITUTION: When a game machine frame is set in an opened state, for example, a flicker signal (opened state report signal) in a short cycle from a lamp signal preparing means (state information signal preparing means) 42b of an ejection control circuit 42a is sent to a display control circuit 43a. The display control circuit 43a discriminates the kind of that signal and corresponding to the kind, a state display control means displays contents on the picture display part so as to report the opening of the game machine frame. Besides, when the ejection of prize balls into a receiving tray 15 is set in an overflow state, a flicker signal in a long cycle is outputted from the lamp signal preparing means 42b to the display control circuit 43a. The display control circuit 43a similarly discriminates this signal and displays the overflow state on the picture display part.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a gaming machine capable of discriminating various status notification signals concerning the status of the gaming machine and displaying the status of the gaming machine on a screen display section in a gaming area.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various winning portions are provided in a game area opened and closed by a gaming machine frame to which a glass plate is attached, and when a gaming ball fired by a hitting ball launching device wins those winning portions, A gaming machine (for example, a pachinko gaming machine) is known in which prize balls are discharged to a saucer for prize balls.

In this type of gaming machine, a model is provided with a screen display section for displaying a variable display game (segment display, display by cathode ray tube, etc.) based on winning in a specific winning section. (For example, a first-class pachinko gaming machine, a third-class pachinko gaming machine, etc.) and a model without a screen display unit (for example, a part of the second-class pachinko gaming machine) .

In any of these types of gaming machines,
Information such as the state that the game machine frame is open, the ball is not supplied to the prize ball tank, the ball for the prize ball is halfway, the prize ball to the saucer is overflowing, etc. That is, the information on the state of the gaming machine is notified by changing the blinking intervals of the display bodies (for example, lamps) other than the gaming area.

[0005]

However, it is difficult to identify a plurality of types of states only by notifying the information of various states of the gaming machine by changing the blinking interval of the lamp,
There is a problem that it is difficult to accurately identify what kind of situation is occurring.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and in a gaming machine of a type having a screen display portion in the gaming area, a status notification for notifying information of various statuses of the gaming machine. An object of the present invention is to provide a gaming machine in which information on the state of the gaming machine can be accurately recognized by displaying information on the state of the gaming machine on its screen display unit using a signal.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 is based on a game control circuit (41a) for performing control related to a game and a signal from the game control circuit. The game display related to the game is displayed in the game area (2
A state in which a display control circuit (43a) for causing the screen display unit (24a) in 2) is provided separately and a state notification signal for generating a state of a gaming machine (for example, a pachinko gaming machine) is created. In the gaming machine provided with the notification signal generating means (for example, the lamp signal generating means 42b), the display control circuit determines the determination means (for example, the CPU 43b) for determining the status notification signal and the determination means. Based on the status information of the gaming machine, the status display control means (for example, CPU 43) for displaying the status information on the screen display unit.
b) and are provided.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine according to the first aspect, the discriminating means is an opening for notifying an open state of a gaming machine frame to which a glass plate covering the gaming area is attached. The configuration is provided with a frame information discriminating unit (for example, the CPU 43b) for discriminating the state notification signal.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine according to the second aspect, the signal discriminated by the frame information discriminating means notifies the information of the open state of the gaming machine frame to the outside. It is configured to be a drive display signal for driving a display body (for example, the display lamp 45a) provided outside the area.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine according to the first aspect, a firing control means (for example, a discharge control) for controlling the drive of a launching device (46) that launches a game ball into the game area. (A part of the circuit 42a), and the signal discriminated by the discriminating means is a stop instruction signal for externally instructing the firing control means to stop, and the firing control means for stopping the driving of the firing device. It is configured to be at least one of the firing stop control signals from.

[0011]

According to the invention described in claim 1, the state notifying signal for notifying the state of the gaming machine generated by the state notifying signal generating means is discriminated by the discriminating means, and the state of the gaming machine is judged based on the discrimination. Since the information of is displayed on the screen display section that displays the game in the game area, the information of the state of the game machine is more accurate than the information of the state of the game machine is notified by the blinking display of the lamp outside the game area. Besides, it is not necessary to provide a display section for displaying information on the state of the gaming machine separately from the screen display section for displaying the game. Further, since the state information signal for notifying the state of the gaming machine is used to display the state information of the gaming machine on the screen display portion of the gaming area, the information of the state of the gaming machine is displayed on the screen of the gaming area. It is not necessary to provide a control circuit for producing a command for displaying on the unit separately from the status notification signal created by the status notification signal creation means.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the discriminating means discriminates the open state informing signal for informing the open state of the gaming machine frame to which the glass plate covering the game area is attached. Since it is provided, the open state notification signal for notifying that the gaming machine frame is in the open state is discriminated by the frame information discriminating means, and based on the discrimination, the gaming machine frame is in the open state. Since it is displayed on the screen display section in the game area, it can be accurately recognized that the gaming machine frame is in the open state by looking at the display on the screen display section.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the signal discriminated by the frame information discriminating means drives the display body provided outside the gaming area for informing the open state information of the gaming machine frame to the outside. Since it is a drive display signal, the information on the open state of the game machine frame is displayed on the screen in the game area by using the drive signal for driving the display body provided outside the game area for notifying the open state information of the game machine frame to the outside. It can be displayed on the display unit.

According to the invention described in claim 4, a launch device for launching a game ball to the game area and a launch control means for controlling the drive of the launch device are provided, and the signal determined by the determination means is: Since it is configured to have at least one of a stop instruction signal for giving an instruction to stop the firing control means from the outside and a firing stop control signal from the firing control means for stopping the drive of the firing device, the firing control means from the outside It is determined that the gaming machine is in the stopped state by determining at least one of the stop instruction signal to the stop command signal and the stop control signal for stopping the driving of the launching device from the start control means within the game area. It is possible to display on the screen display unit and accurately recognize that it is in the stopped state.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a pachinko gaming machine will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a pachinko gaming machine,
2 is a schematic front view of the gaming board, FIG. 3 is a rear view of the pachinko gaming machine, FIG. 4 is a control block diagram of a control system of the pachinko gaming machine, and FIG. 5 is a stop display displayed on the screen display portion of the gaming board. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a concrete example of data, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a concrete example of overflow display data, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a concrete example of gold frame opening display data, and FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a concrete example of discharge abnormality display data. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a specific example of ball clogging display data.

The pachinko gaming machine 1 is composed of a gaming machine main body 2 and a ball lending machine 3.

On the front side of the gaming machine body 2, an openable and closable gaming machine frame (also referred to as a metal frame) 12 having a transparent glass plate 11,
Locking lock 13, supply tray 14, and tray 15 of the gaming machine frame 12
A firing handle 16 and the like are attached.
Then, inside the front right side of the gaming machine main body 2, a metal frame switch 12a for detecting the open / closed state of the gaming machine frame 12 is attached.

A game board 20 as shown in FIG. 2, for example, is housed in the game board housing 17 which is opened and closed by the gaming machine frame 12 of the gaming machine body 2.

In the game area 22 surrounded by the guide rails 21 of the game board 20, a starting opening 23 and a screen display section 24 are provided.
screen display device 24 having a, through chucker 25,
General winning opening 26, variable winning device 27, side lamp 28
a, a hitting ball direction changing member 28b called a windmill, an out hole 29, and the like are provided. The variable winning device 27 is a big winning opening 2 which is opened and closed by an opening / closing door 27a.
7b is provided.

On the other hand, on the back side of the pachinko gaming machine 1, as shown in FIG. 3, the prize ball tank 1a, the prize ball discharging device 1b, the game control device 41 for controlling the game system, and the ball discharging system. Discharge control device 42 for controlling the display, screen display unit 2
A display control device 43 for controlling display on 4a, a relay board 44 for wiring, a terminal board 45 as a board for distributing power to the pachinko gaming machine 1 and exchanging signals with the outside,
A hitting ball launching device 46, an overflow sensor 47 for detecting the overflow state of the prize ball to the tray 15, and the like are installed. A display lamp 45a is attached to the terminal board 45 as a display for displaying various states of the pachinko gaming machine 1 by blinking or the like. Although illustration is omitted, in addition, a ball clogging switch (described later) for detecting a state where the balls are not supplied into the prize ball tank 1a, the number of stored balls to be discharged by the prize ball discharging device 1b is less than a predetermined number, A half-end switch (described later) for detecting a so-called half-end state is installed.

Next, as described above, the pachinko machine main body 2
A game control device 41, a discharge control device 42, a display control device 43, a relay board 44, a terminal board 45, which are installed in
The display lamp 45a, the metal frame switch 12a, the overflow switch 47, and the launching device 46 are controlled in relation to each other.
A description will be given based on the control block diagram of FIG.

The metal frame switch 12a, the overflow switch 47, the ball jam switch 48 and the half-end switch 49.
Is connected to the discharge control circuit 42a of the discharge control device 42.

The discharge control circuit 42a includes a firing control means 42e for controlling the stop of the firing device 46, and the firing control means 42e includes a stop instruction signal receiving portion 42d and a firing control signal generating means 42c. The firing control signal creating means 42c is connected to the electromagnetic coil 45c that opens the normally closed relay switch 45b of the terminal board 45. Further, a lamp signal generating means 42b as a state notification signal generating means of the discharge control circuit 42a is connected to the display lamp 45a via the relay board 44.

In addition, the power supply circuit 50 (for example, AC24
V) is directly connected to the game control circuit 41a,
It is connected to the firing control circuit 46a via a normally closed relay switch 45b.

An electromagnetic coil 45e for closing the normally open relay switch 45d of the terminal board 45 by the signal line of the stop instruction signal 51 from the store side management device (not shown).
And a stop instruction signal receiving section 4 of the firing control means 42e.
2d is connected to the display control circuit 43a via a photocoupler 44a which is turned on when the normally open relay switch 45d is closed.

The signal lines of the firing control signal producing means 42c and the ramp signal producing means 42b are directly connected to the display control circuit 43a.

The pachinko gaming machine 1 is generally configured as described above and operates as follows.

That is, when not playing, the screen display unit 24
There is a call display on a, but the firing handle 1
When the ball hit in the game area 22 by the launching device 46 based on the operation of 6 wins the starting opening 23, by the display control circuit 43a under the control of the game control circuit 41a,
The variable display of the variable display game is displayed on the screen display unit 24a.

Then, the stop result of the variable display is displayed in a predetermined display mode (for example, "1,1,1", "3,3,3",
If the numbers such as "7, 7, 7" are aligned, it is a big hit and the opening / closing door 27a of the variable winning device 27 is set under a certain condition under the control of the game control circuit 42a. It opens in a cycle pattern, and it becomes easy to win a prize in the special winning opening 27b.

However, when the game machine frame 12 is forgotten to be closed and is in the open state, the metal frame switch 12a is turned on, and the ON signal is input to the discharge control circuit 42a. When this input signal is received, the discharge control circuit 42
A blinking signal (open state notification signal) with a short cycle for notifying the open state is sent from the lamp signal generating means 42b as a state notification signal generating means of a to the display lamp 45a, and the display lamp 45a has a short cycle. Flashes repeatedly. The short blinking of the cycle of the display lamp 45a informs the outside that the gaming machine frame 12 is open.

At the same time, a blinking signal (open state notification signal) with a short cycle is sent from the lamp signal generating means 42b of the discharge control circuit 42a to the display control circuit 43a.
Then, the type of the signal is discriminated by the frame information discriminating means as the discriminating means of the display control circuit 43a, and based on the discrimination, the state display control means of the display control circuit 43a causes the screen display section 24a to display the gaming machine frame. As a content display (state display) informing that 12 is open, for example, a scroll display of "glass open" (FIG. 7) is made.

When the prize balls are discharged to the receiving tray 15 in an overflow state, the overflow switch 47 is turned on and the ON signal is input to the discharge control circuit 42a. When this input signal is received, the discharge control circuit 4
The lamp signal generating means 42b of 2a sends a long cycle blinking signal for notifying the overflow state to the display lamp 45a, and the display lamp 45a repeatedly blinks for a long cycle. The long blinking of the cycle of the display lamp 45a informs the outside that the discharge of the prize balls is in the overflow state.

At the same time, the lamp signal generating means 42b of the discharge control circuit 42a sends a blinking signal (open state notification signal) having a long cycle to the display control circuit 43a.
Then, the display control circuit 43a determines the type of the signal, and based on the determination, the display control circuit 4
As a content display (status display) that informs the screen display section 24a that the prize balls are discharged to the pan 15 by the status display control means 3a (status display), "Please pull out the ball from the bottom plate" (Fig. 6) is displayed.

In addition, the ball clogging switch 48 in the prize ball tank 1a for detecting a state where the balls are not supplied to the prize ball tank 1a and the number of stored balls to be discharged by the prize ball discharging device 1b are less than a predetermined number. The detection signal from the half-end switch 49 for detecting the so-called half-end state is the discharge control circuit 42.
based on that input,
A display lamp 45a is generated by a blinking signal (state notification signal) from the lamp signal generating means 42b of the discharge control circuit 42a.
Are blinked in a predetermined cycle and notified, and the blinking signals (state notification signals) are sent to the display control circuit 43a and are discriminated by the discrimination means of the display control circuit 43a. Based on the determination, the display control circuit 43
By the status display control means of a, the screen display section 24a has a scroll display of "Call a ball supply staff" (FIG. 9) as a status display for notifying the ball clogging state, and a "status display for notifying the hemispherical state". Please call the staff ”
(FIG. 8) is scrolled.

When at least one of the ON signals of the metal frame switch 12a, the overflow switch 47, the ball jam switch 48, and the half-end switch 49 is input to the discharge control circuit 42a, the firing control signal generating means 42c causes the firing control. Signal (fire stop control signal) is created,
This firing control signal is sent to the electromagnetic coil 45c to open the relay switch 45b, whereby the power supply circuit 50
The power supply to the firing control circuit 46a is cut off, and the firing device 46 is stopped.

When the pachinko gaming machine 1 reaches a fixed amount, a stop instruction signal 51 from the management device is sent to the electromagnetic coil 45e of the terminal board 45, whereby the relay switch 45d is closed. , The photocoupler 44a is actuated to operate the display control circuit 43a.
And a stop instruction signal is sent to the stop signal receiving portion 42d of the discharge control circuit 42a.

When this stopping instruction signal is sent to the display control circuit 43a, the status display control means of the display control circuit 43a causes the screen display unit 24a to display a content display (status display) indicating that the stopping has been performed. As a scroll display of "stop miter" (FIG. 5) is made, a firing control signal (firing stop control signal) is produced by the firing control signal producing means 42c, and this firing control signal is sent to the electromagnetic coil 45c. When the relay switch 45b is opened, the power supply circuit 50 causes the firing control circuit 4
The supply of electricity to 6a is cut off, and the launcher 46 is stopped.

In this way, the ON signal of the metal frame switch 12a that informs that the gaming machine frame 12 is open, the saucer 15
ON signal of the overflow switch 47 for notifying that the prize balls are discharged to the overflowing state, and ON signal of the ball clogging switch 48 in the prize ball tank 1a for detecting the state where the balls are not supplied to the prize ball tank 1a. A half-end switch 4 for detecting a so-called half-end state in which the number of stored balls to be discharged by the prize ball discharging device 1b is less than a predetermined number.
When any of the 9 ON signals is input to the discharge control circuit 42a, the discharge control circuit 42a sends a blinking signal of a cycle corresponding to each state to the display lamp 45a, and the display lamp 45a blinks in that cycle. In addition to the above, a blinking signal (state notification signal) for a cycle corresponding to each state is input to the display control circuit 43a, and the display control circuit 43a displays the state of the gaming machine 1 according to the input signal. For example, when the gaming machine frame 12 is open, the status display of "glass open" (FIG. 7), the saucer 15
When the prize balls are discharged to the overflowing state, "Please pull out the balls from the lower plate" (Fig. 6) is displayed, and when the balls are not supplied to the prize ball tank 1a, "Call the ball supply staff" (Fig. 9) display, when the prize ball is in a half-end state, "Please call the staff" (Fig. 8), when it is in the stopped state, "Stop miter"
Since the display of (FIG. 5) and the like is performed on the screen display unit 24a, compared with the case where the information on the state of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is notified only by the blinking display of the display lamp 45a outside the gaming area 22, the pachinko gaming machine 1 Besides being able to accurately recognize the state information, it is not necessary to provide a display section for displaying the state information of the pachinko gaming machine 1 separately from the screen display section 24a for displaying the game. In addition, the status information signal for notifying the status of the pachinko gaming machine 1 (in this embodiment, the blinking signal from the discharge control circuit 42a) is used to display the status information of the pachinko gaming machine 1 on the screen display unit 24a. It is not necessary to provide a control circuit for producing a command for displaying separately from the status notification signal (signal for blinking the display lamp 55a) created by the status notification signal creation means of the discharge control circuit 42a.

FIG. 10 shows a control block diagram of the display control circuit 43.

As shown in the figure, the display control circuit 43 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 43b, an external ROM (read only memory) 43c, and an external RAM (rand).
om access memory) 43d, status information signal to the CPU 43
a signal conversion circuit 43f for converting an input signal to the d, a signal conversion circuit 43g for converting a display control signal to an input signal to the CPU 43d, and a screen by storing or extracting data in the video memory 43h based on a command from the CPU 43b. The display unit 24a is composed of a video display controller 43i, a sound generator 43j, an amplifier 43k, and the like for making various displays.

The CPU 43b is provided with various discrimination means, various registers and flags, etc., and receives a display control signal from the game control circuit 41a under the reference time created by the oscillation circuit 43e, and for the variable display game in the ROM 43c. In addition to instructing the video display controller 43i to cause the screen display unit 24a to perform variable display and call-in display of the variable display game according to the program, the ROM based on the status information signal from the discharge control circuit 42a and the management device.
The state information of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is displayed according to the display control program in 43c. In addition, it sends a signal to the sound generator 43j to produce a sound effect corresponding to the game state.

The ROM 43c is a semiconductor memory that stores various control programs used by the CPU 43b, display data, and the like. The stored display data includes variable display data for variable display games, call-in data, and pachinko game machines. Status display data.

The RAM 43d discriminates the display control signal sent from the game control circuit 41a and the status display signal sent from the discharge control circuit 42a, and temporarily stores the contents of the command.

The video display controller 43i stores or withdraws the display data edited according to the command from the CPU 43d into or out of the video memory 43h so that the screen display portion 24a can display the variable display of the variable display, the call display, the pachinko game machine. Display status etc.

FIG. 11 shows a flowchart (general flow) of a display control process for the screen display section 24a performed by the display control circuit 43a.

When this display control process is started, first,
As initialization processing, initialization processing of the RAM 43d (step S1), setting of I / 0 register (step S2), C
PU43b, setting of system internal register (step S
After performing 3) and the like, the process proceeds to step S4.

In step S4, the V sync flag (V-
Wait until the SYNC flag) is set, and then step S4
~ S8 mode-based branching process to determine which mode of the background picture of the screen display unit 24a is to be performed, pattern variation process (design rotation process) of the screen display unit 24a, various state information processing of the pachinko gaming machine, display data The symbol data sort process for synthesizing and rearranging the symbols is performed, and the process returns to step S4.

FIG. 12 shows a flowchart of a subroutine process as the state information process performed in step S7 of the general flow (FIG. 11).

When this state information processing is started, first,
In step S10, the determination means determines whether or not the discharge abnormality flag is set. If it is not set, the process proceeds to step S11. If it is set, step S12 is set.
In step S17, the process for setting the discharge abnormality display information for notifying that the number of balls for discharging prize balls is in an odd state is executed.

In step S11, the determination means determines whether or not the gold frame flag is set. If not, the process proceeds to step S13. If it is set, step S13 is executed.
At 14, the processing for setting the gold frame opening display information for informing that the gaming machine frame 12 is open is performed, and the process jumps to step S17.

In step S13, the determination means determines whether or not the ball clogging flag is set. If it is not set, the status information display is canceled in step S15, and the process proceeds to step S17. In step S16, ball clogging display information for notifying that the ball is not supplied to the prize ball tank 1a is set, and the process proceeds to step S17.

In step S17, the determination means determines whether or not the overflow flag is set. If it is not set, the process proceeds to step S18. If it is set, the prize balls discharged to the tray 15 are overflowed in step S19. The overflow display information for notifying that the state is set is set, and the process proceeds to step S8 of the general flow of FIG.

In step S18, it is judged by the judging means whether or not the stop flag is set. If it is not set, the state information display is canceled in step S20 and the process proceeds to step S8 of the general flow of FIG. If standing, the stop display information for notifying the stop state is set in step S21, and the process proceeds to step S8 of the general flow of FIG.

FIG. 13 shows a flowchart of the control processing procedure of the interrupt processing performed when an interrupt signal is input while the processing of the general flow of FIG. 11 is being performed.

When the interrupt process is started, the process of prohibiting double interrupt (step R1) and the process of saving register (step R2) are performed and then the process proceeds to step R3.

In step R3, it is determined whether or not the interrupt is due to communication. If the interrupt is not due to communication, the process proceeds to step R4. If the interrupt is due to communication, the communication process is performed in step R5 and the process jumps to step R9.

At step R4, the V sync (V-SYN
C) It is determined whether the interrupt is the interrupt, and if it is the interrupt of the V sync, the transfer processing of the image data is performed in steps R6, R7 and R8.
After performing the process of setting the V sync interrupt flag and the state information signal process, the process proceeds to step R9. If it is not the V sync interrupt, the process jumps to step R9.

When the process proceeds to step R9, the register restoration process is performed in step R9, and the interrupt permission process is performed in step R10, and then FIG.
Return to processing of general flow.

FIG. 14 shows a flowchart of a subroutine process of the status information signal process in step R8 of the interrupt process of FIG.

When this state information signal processing is started, a short period (for example, 64) is determined by the determining means in step R20.
It is determined whether or not it is a display blinking signal (a signal for blinking the display lamp 45a) in msec), and if not, the process proceeds to step R21, but if so, the signal is sent to the saucer 15 at step R23. An abnormal discharge flag is set to display that the number of prize balls is halfway, and the process jumps to step R28.

In step R21, a long period (for example, 512 msec) is determined by the frame information discriminating means as the determining means.
It is determined whether or not the signal is a signal for blinking the display (a signal for blinking the display lamp 45a) in step S21. If not, the process proceeds to step R24, but if so, step R25
Then, a gold frame opening flag for notifying that the gaming machine frame 12 is open is set, and the process jumps to step R28.

In step R24, it is determined by the determination means whether or not it is a signal for continuous lighting (a signal for continuously lighting the display lamp 45a). If it is not a signal for continuous lighting, the flag is cleared in step R27 and the step is performed. If it is a signal for continuous lighting, the routine goes to R28, and the ball clogging flag is set in step R26, and the routine goes to step 28.

At step R28, it is judged by the discriminating means whether or not the stopping instruction signal is on. If it is on, then at step R29 a stopping flag for giving a stopping instruction is set and an interruption is made. Step R9 of processing (FIG. 13)
However, if it is not turned on, step R30
Move to

As a result, when the routine proceeds to step R30, it is judged at step R30 whether or not the stopping instruction signal is on, and if it is on, step R3.
At 1, the overflow flag for displaying that the prize ball discharge to the tray 15 is in the overflow state is set, and the routine proceeds to step R9 of the interrupt processing of FIG. However, when it is not turned on, the flag is cleared in step R32 and the process proceeds to step R9 of the interrupt process of FIG.

[0066]

According to the invention described in claim 1, the state notifying signal for notifying the state of the gaming machine produced by the state notifying signal producing means is discriminated by the discriminating means, and the gaming machine is based on the discrimination. Since the information of the state of the game area is displayed on the screen display unit for displaying the game in the game area, the information of the state of the game machine is compared to the information of the state of the game machine is indicated by the blinking display of the lamp outside the game area. In addition to accurately recognizing, it is not necessary to provide a display section for displaying information on the state of the gaming machine separately from a screen display section for displaying a game. Further, since the state information signal for notifying the state of the gaming machine is used to display the state information of the gaming machine on the screen display portion of the gaming area, the information of the state of the gaming machine is displayed on the screen of the gaming area. It is not necessary to provide a control circuit for producing a command for displaying on the unit separately from the status notification signal created by the status notification signal creation means.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the discriminating means discriminates the open state informing signal for informing the open state of the gaming machine frame to which the glass plate covering the game area is attached. Since it is provided, the open state notification signal for notifying that the gaming machine frame is in the open state is discriminated by the frame information discriminating means, and based on the discrimination, the gaming machine frame is in the open state. Since it is displayed on the screen display section in the game area, it can be accurately recognized that the gaming machine frame is in the open state by looking at the display on the screen display section.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the signal discriminated by the frame information discriminating means drives the display body provided outside the game area for informing the open state information of the gaming machine frame to the outside. Since it is a drive display signal, the information on the open state of the game machine frame is displayed on the screen in the game area by using the drive signal for driving the display body provided outside the game area for notifying the open state information of the game machine frame to the outside. It can be displayed on the display unit.

According to the invention described in claim 4, a launch device for launching a game ball to the game area and a launch control means for controlling the drive of the launch device are provided, and the signal determined by the determining means is Since the configuration is such that at least one of a stop instruction signal for giving a stop instruction to the firing control means from the outside and a firing stop control signal from the firing control means for stopping the driving of the launching device, the firing control from the outside is performed. By determining at least one of the stop instruction signal to the means and the firing stop control signal from the firing control means for stopping the driving of the launching device, it is determined that the gaming machine is in the stopped state within the game area. It can be displayed on the screen display portion of and the user can be made to accurately recognize that it is in the stopped state.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front side perspective view of a pachinko gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic front view of a game board.

FIG. 3 is a rear view of the pachinko gaming machine.

FIG. 4 is a control block diagram of a control system of a pachinko gaming machine.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a specific example of stop display data displayed on the screen display unit of the game board.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a specific example of overflow display data.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a specific example of gold frame open display data.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a specific example of discharge abnormality display data.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a specific example of ball clogging display data.

FIG. 10 is a control block diagram of a display control circuit.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a display control process performed by a display control circuit on a screen display unit.

12 is a flowchart of a subroutine process as state information processing performed in step S7 of the general flow of FIG.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart of an interrupt process performed when an interrupt signal is input while the process of the general flow of FIG. 11 is being performed.

14 is a flowchart of a control processing procedure as a subroutine processing of state information signal processing in step R8 of the interrupt processing of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Pachinko gaming machine (gaming machine) 11 Glass plate 12 Gaming machine frame 12a Gold frame switch 20 Gaming board 22 Gaming area 24a Screen display section 41a Gaming control circuit 42a Discharge control circuit 42b Lamp signal creating means (status information signal creating means) 42e Firing control means 43a Display control circuit 43b CPU (discrimination means) 46a Firing control circuit 47 Overflow switch 48 Ball jam switch 49 Half-end switch

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A game control circuit for performing control related to a game and a display control circuit for causing a screen display section in a game area to display a game display related to a game based on a signal from the game control circuit. In the gaming machine provided with the state notification signal creating means for creating a state notification signal for notifying the state of the gaming machine, the display control circuit, the determining means for determining the state notification signal, A state display control means for displaying information on the state of the gaming machine on the screen display portion based on the discrimination of the discrimination means. 2. The discriminating means comprises frame information discriminating means for discriminating an open state notification signal for notifying an open state of a gaming machine frame to which a glass plate covering the game area is attached. The gaming machine according to claim 1. 3. The signal discriminated by the frame information discriminating means is a drive display signal for driving a display body provided outside the game area for informing outside of the information on the open state of the gaming machine frame. The gaming machine according to claim 2, wherein: 4. A launching device for launching a game ball to the game area, and a launching control means for controlling the driving of the launching device. A signal determined by the determining means is externally sent to the launching control means. A stop instruction signal that gives a stop instruction,
The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the gaming machine is at least one of a firing stop control signal from the firing control means for stopping driving of the firing device.