JPH0928905A - Bouncing ball game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily persuade a player to accept the end of a game when he has obtained a plenty of prize balls. SOLUTION: A control device works to display a number to hundreds digit when a memory value M corresponding to a difference between the number of prize balls and the frequency of shooting is positive and to do the degree of acquirement when the memory value M is not positive (101-113). Hence, a player can learn how he wins over his loss and is allowed to end the game finding that the frequency of his acquirement reaches the upper limit value. On the other hand, a hall worker can ask the player to end the game when the player continues to play without noticing the state. Thus, since the degree of acquirement, namely, winning over the loss is displayed, the player obtaining a plenty of prize balls can be persuaded easily to accept the end of the game.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to a ball and ball game machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A ball game such as a pachinko or an arrangement ball-type pachinko (arepachi) is widely used as entertainment. In order not to lose the genuineness of ball game as a sound entertainment, the ball game machine is regulated by the regulations (game rules) so as to eliminate excessive gambling and performance that does not stimulate gambling. ing. As a specific example, when the game is continued for a long time of 10 hours or more, the number of possessed balls does not decrease to 以下 or less and does not increase to 2 times or more.

[0003]

However, sometimes a large amount of prize balls are obtained in a short time, and some players pile up prize ball cases commonly called dollar boxes. Such a case may, for example, fuel the ambition of the players around it. Therefore, for example, it is conceivable to set a rule that ends the game when a certain number of prize balls is reached.

[0004] However, some players frequently exchange prize balls, and simply counting the number of dollar boxes does not make it possible to grasp the number of prize balls obtained by the player. Therefore, when this rule is applied based on the number of dollar boxes, it cannot be said that the player does not feel unfair.

[0005] In other words, if the number of prize balls obtained by each player cannot be clearly defined, there is a possibility that the end of the game may not be convinced when a certain number of prize balls are reached, and the above-mentioned rules are smoothly implemented. It is not expected to be applicable to The present invention provides a ball game machine that allows a player who has obtained a large amount of prize balls to easily understand the end of the game.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] As means for solving the above problems, the ball game machine according to claim 1 is set in advance when a prize is established due to the behavior of the game ball that is fired. In a ball game machine that pays out a number of game balls as prize balls, a calculating means for calculating the degree of acquisition on the player side based on the cumulative number of the prize balls and the number of the game balls that have been fired, and the degree of acquisition. And a display means for displaying.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, when the cumulative number of the prize balls does not reach the number of the fired ball, The acquisition degree is set to 0. Claim 3
The ball game machine according to claim 1 is, in the ball game machine according to claim 1 or 2, storage means for storing deduction data corresponding to a difference between the cumulative number of the prize balls and the number of the game balls shot,
And an initialization means for initializing the subtraction data when a predetermined condition is satisfied or when an initialization instruction is given, and the computing means calculates the acquisition degree based on the subtraction data. Characterize.

The ball-ball game machine according to claim 4 is the ball-ball game machine according to claim 3, wherein a reset switch for instructing the initialization is provided at a position where the player cannot operate. . The ball game machine according to claim 5, in the ball game machine according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the degree of acquisition is the difference between the cumulative number of the prize balls and the number of the game balls fired or It is characterized by being an approximate number of differences.

A ball-playing machine according to claim 6 is the ball-playing machine according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the game function of the ball-playing machine is stopped when the degree of acquisition reaches an upper limit. It is characterized in that a function stopping means is provided.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The ball game machine according to claim 1 having the above-mentioned structure, when a prize is established due to the behavior of the launched game ball, a preset number of game balls are awarded. Pay out as. Here, the establishment of a winning is exemplified by the entry of a winning hole in a pachinko gaming machine and the establishment of a combination in an arepachi machine.

In this ball-and-ball game machine, the calculating means calculates the player's degree of acquisition based on the cumulative number of prize balls and the number of game balls fired, and the display means displays the degree of acquisition. The degree of acquisition is a measure of how much the player has won, and is exemplified by the difference between the number of game balls shot and the number of prize balls paid out. Since this degree of acquisition is displayed, it becomes easy for the player who has obtained a large amount of prize balls to be satisfied with the end of the game.

In the ball-ball game machine according to the second aspect, the calculating means sets the degree of acquisition to 0 when the cumulative number of prize balls does not reach the number of game balls fired. Therefore, it is not possible to know how much the player is losing just by looking at the acquisition degree displayed as 0. Therefore, for example, it is possible to prevent the player from trying to use the ball-playing machine immediately after the player who has largely lost the game to end the game and try to make the degree of acquisition smaller than the actual amount by the loss of the previous player. it can.

In the ball game machine according to the third aspect, the storage means stores the subtraction data corresponding to the difference between the cumulative number of prize balls and the number of game balls fired. The initialization means initializes the subtraction data when a predetermined condition is satisfied or when initialization is instructed. Then, the calculation means calculates the degree of acquisition based on the subtraction data.

Since the unspecified player replaces and uses the ball game machine, for example, the degree of acquisition for each player is calculated by the difference between the cumulative number of prize balls from the opening of the store and the game balls that have been launched. do not go. Therefore, each time the player is replaced, the initialization data is initialized by the initialization means, whereby the subtraction data for each player can be obtained. If the degree of acquisition is calculated based on this, the degree of acquisition for each player can be accurately calculated.

In the ball game machine according to the fourth aspect, a reset switch for instructing initialization is provided at a position where the player cannot operate. Therefore, for example, after a player who has obtained a large number of prize balls has finished playing a game, when another player selects the game machine, a clerk or the like operates this reset switch to save the subtraction data. If the initialization is instructed, the degree of acquisition for each player can be accurately calculated.

In the ball-ball game machine according to the fifth aspect, the degree of acquisition is a difference between the cumulative number of prize balls and the number of game balls fired or an approximate number of the difference. Since the player can display the number of game balls or the approximate number of game balls that he or she has substantially acquired, it is extremely easy for the player who has obtained a large number of prize balls to be convinced of the end of the game.

In the ball-ball game machine according to the sixth aspect, the function stopping means stops the game function of the ball-ball game machine when the degree of acquisition reaches the upper limit. Since the player cannot continue the game, negotiation between the store side and the player is unnecessary, for example, requesting the player to end the game.

It is sufficient to stop the game function, for example, by stopping the operation of the launching device so that the game cannot be executed, and it is not necessary to stop all the functions of the ball game machine.

[0019]

Next, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the game board 12 of the ball game machine 10
The winning symbol display device 14, the starting winning opening 16, the big winning opening 18, the out hole 20, the acquisition degree display device 22 is provided. Inside the special winning opening 18, a count switch 24 is installed for detecting a winning ball. In addition to these, the game board 12 is also provided with a normal winning hole, a windmill, and the like (all are not shown). A reset switch 28 is attached to the decorative portion 26 surrounding the game board 12.

The front sides of the game board 12 and the decoration portion 26 are covered with a double glass 32 held by a frame member 30 which can be opened and closed with respect to the main body of the ball game machine 10. Therefore, the reset switch 28 cannot be operated normally, but if a key (not shown) is inserted into the key hole 34 and an unlocking operation is performed, the frame member 30 can be opened to operate the reset switch 28.

An upper tray 3 is provided in the lower half of the ball game machine 10.
6, a lower tray 38 and a firing handle 40 are installed, and a control device 42 for controlling each part of the ball game machine 10 is provided on the back side. The control device 42 is configured as a microcomputer including a well-known CPU, ROM, RAM, etc., and can control each part of the ball game machine 10 according to a program stored in the ROM. A firing signal from the launching device is input to the control device 42, and the control device 42 can count the number of shots of the game ball based on the launch signal. Further, an operation signal from a prize ball payout device (not shown) is also input to the control device 42, and the control device 42 can count the number of payouts of prize balls based on the operation signal.

In this ball game machine 10, the firing handle 4
When 0 is rotated, a launching device (not shown) is activated to launch the game balls sent from the upper tray 36 to the game area formed between the game board 12 and the glass 32. When the game ball that has been shot wins the starting winning opening 16,
Due to this, the display of the winning symbol display device 14 is changed. Then, on the winning symbol display device 14, for example, 777
When a specific symbol such as is displayed, it becomes a big hit and a special game is executed. Since the contents of this special game are conventionally known, the description thereof is omitted.

Next, the display of the player's acquisition degree in the ball game machine 10 will be described. In this example, the degree of acquisition is
It is an approximate difference between the cumulative number of award balls acquired by the player and the number of game balls shot by the player. As shown in FIG. 2, when the power of the ball-playing game machine 10 is turned on, the control device 42 first reads R.
Stored value M of the subtraction data storage area set in AM
Is initialized to 0 (step 101).

Next, the control device 42 determines whether or not the prize balls are paid out based on the operation signal from the prize ball payout device (step 103). If the prize balls are paid out, the control device 42 adds the prize ball number G to the stored value M and updates the stored value M (step 105). If the prize balls are not paid out, the number of shots S of the game balls counted based on the shot signal is subtracted from the stored value M to update the stored value M (step 107).

Following step 105 or step 107, the controller 42 determines whether the stored value M is a positive numerical value (step 109). If the stored value M is a positive numerical value, the control device 42 causes the degree-of-acquisition display device 22 to display the numerical values corresponding to the upper hundred digit of the stored value M (step 111), and the stored value M is positive. If it is not a numerical value, 0 is displayed on the acquisition degree display device 22 (step 113).

Next, the control device 42 judges whether the stored value M has reached the upper limit value (step 115), and the stored value M
Does not reach the upper limit, the process returns to step 103. On the other hand, if the stored value M has reached the upper limit value, the control device 42 instructs the launching device to stop its operation (step 117). As a result, the game ball cannot be fired, so that the player who has won the game ball until reaching the upper limit value cannot continue the game. Therefore, the player is forced to finish the game on the ball game machine 10. The store side does not need to negotiate to request the player to finish the game.

After that, the control device 42 determines whether or not the reset instruction signal is input from the reset switch 28 (step 119), and for example, a store clerk opens the frame member 30 and operates the reset switch 28 to reset the reset instruction signal. If is input, the operation of the launcher is restarted.
As a result, the next player can play a new game by using the ball game machine 10.

In addition, for example, when the pachinko parlor is extremely crowded, the clerk promptly resets the switch 28.
May not be operated. Therefore, the control device 42
If the reset instruction signal is not input even after a preset time, for example, 10 minutes has passed (step 123:
If YES, the controller 42 executes step 121 even if there is no reset instruction signal.

As described above, in this ball game machine 10,
As the degree of acquisition, which is a measure of how much the player has won, the approximate difference between the number of game balls fired and the number of prize balls paid out is illustrated, so a game in which a large number of prize balls are obtained To the
It will be easy for you to be satisfied with the end of the game. In particular, when the degree of acquisition reaches the upper limit, the game function of the ball game machine is stopped and the player cannot continue the game. For example, request the player to end the game. There is no need for negotiations between the store and the player.

When the cumulative number of prize balls does not reach the number of game balls fired, the degree of acquisition is displayed as 0. Therefore, if the player sees the degree of acquisition displayed as 0, the player can I don't know how much I'm losing. Therefore, for example, it is possible to prevent the player from trying to use the ball-playing machine immediately after the player who has largely lost the game to end the game and try to make the degree of acquisition smaller than the actual amount by the loss of the previous player. it can.

When the player reaches the upper limit of the degree of acquisition and the game ends, the memory value M is initialized to 0, so that the replaced player can play the game regardless of the game result of the previous player. The player's degree of acquisition can be accurately calculated. Since the reset switch 28 for instructing the initialization of the stored value M is provided at a position where the player cannot operate it, for example, after the player who has obtained a large number of prize balls finishes the game, another When the game player selects the game machine, if the clerk operates the reset switch to instruct the initialization of the subtraction data, the degree of acquisition for each player can be accurately calculated.

In the ball-ball game machine 10 of the specific example, the control device 42 functions as a computing means and a function stopping means, and the RAM in the control device 42 corresponds to the storing means. Further, the acquisition degree display device 22 corresponds to the display means. As described above, the embodiments of the present invention have been described according to the specific examples. However, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the specific examples, and can be variously implemented without departing from the gist of the present invention.

For example, the function of the ball game machine shown in the concrete example is stopped (step 117) and then restarted (step 12).
It is sufficient to request the player to finish the game by only displaying the degree of acquisition without performing the processing of 1). In that case, instead of stopping the function, if a specific lamp is displayed or a notification is made by voice, both the player and the store side can easily and clearly know that the acquisition level has reached the upper limit. it can.

In the above-mentioned specific example, the control device of the ball game machine is caused to execute the processing relating to the acquisition degree calculation and the acquisition degree display, but a device for executing these processings is provided separately from the control device. It doesn't matter. Further, in the specific example, the number of shots is counted based on the launch signal from the launching device, but for example, the number of shots per hour of a pachinko machine (100 balls or less per minute by law).
Taking advantage of the fact that the
It is also possible to calculate the degree of acquisition by assuming that 100 balls have been fired each time the machine is operated for a minute. In this case, instead of the signal from the launching device itself, a signal capable of estimating that the launching device is operating, such as a signal from a start switch, can be used. In particular, if a signal that is configured to be input to the control device is used even in the conventional ball game machine,
No new wiring is required.

Alternatively, without providing the reset switch 28, for example, when the count switch 24 of the special winning opening 18 is turned on at times other than the special game, it is treated as a reset instruction signal. It can also be used as a reset switch by turning it on.

[0036]

As described above, according to the ball game machine according to the first aspect, since the degree of acquisition, which is a measure of how much the player is winning, is displayed, a large number of prize balls are obtained. It is easy for the player to understand the end of the game.

According to the ball-and-ball game machine according to the second aspect, for example, immediately after the player who has largely lost the game and ended the game, the ball-and-ball game machine is used to actually obtain the degree of earning corresponding to the loss of the previous player. It is possible to prevent the act of trying to appear smaller than that. According to the ball-playing machine of the third aspect, if the initialization data is initialized by the initialization means every time the player is replaced, the subtraction data for each player can be obtained. If the degree of acquisition is calculated based on this, the degree of acquisition for each player can be accurately calculated.

According to the ball-ball game machine according to the fourth aspect, for example, when another player selects the game machine after having the player who has obtained a large number of prize balls finish the game, If a store clerk operates the reset switch and gives an instruction to initialize the subtraction data, the degree of acquisition for each player can be accurately calculated.

According to the ball-playing machine according to the fifth aspect, since the number of game balls that the player has substantially acquired or the approximate number thereof can be displayed, the player who has obtained a large number of prize balls can finish the game. It will be extremely easy for you to understand. According to the ball-playing machine according to claim 6, the game function of the ball-playing machine is stopped when the degree of acquisition reaches the upper limit, and the player cannot continue the game. There is no need to negotiate between the store side and the player, such as requesting the player to finish the game.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a specific example of a ball game machine.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a process executed by a control device for a ball game machine according to a specific example.

[Explanation of symbols]

10: ball and ball game machine, 12: gaming board, 16: start winning opening, 18: large winning opening, 20: out hole, 22: acquisition degree display device (display means) ), 24: Count switch, 26: Decorative part, 28: Reset switch, 30: Frame member, 32: Glass, 34: Keyhole, 36: Upper tray, 38 ... lower tray, 40 ... firing handle, 42 ... control device (computing means, storage means, function stopping means), G ... number of award balls, M ... storage value (subtraction data), S: Number of shots.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A bullet-ball game machine that pays out a preset number of game balls as prize balls when a prize is established due to the behavior of the game balls that have been shot, and the cumulative number of the prize balls and the shot. A ball-and-ball game machine, comprising: a computing unit that calculates the degree of acquisition on the player side based on the number of played balls and a display unit that displays the degree of acquisition. 2. The ball game machine according to claim 1, wherein the calculating means sets the degree of acquisition to 0 when the cumulative number of prize balls has not reached the number of fired game balls. Characteristic ball and ball game machine. 3. The ball game machine according to claim 1 or 2, and a storage unit for storing deduction data corresponding to a difference between the cumulative number of the prize balls and the number of the game balls shot, and a predetermined condition. And an initialization unit that initializes the subtraction data when the initialization is instructed or the initialization unit is instructed, and the computing unit calculates the acquisition degree based on the subtraction data. Ball game machine. 4. The ball game machine according to claim 3, wherein a reset switch for instructing the initialization is provided at a position where the player cannot operate. 5. The ball game machine according to claim 1, wherein the degree of acquisition is a difference between the cumulative number of the prize balls and the number of the game balls shot, or an approximate number of the difference. Ball game machine characterized by. 6. The ball game machine according to claim 1, further comprising a function stop means for stopping a game function of the ball game machine when the acquisition degree reaches an upper limit. Characteristic ball game machine.