JPH1066762A - Pattern display of pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display patterns on a pachinko machine having a pattern display, after a next-to-winning condition has occurred, in such a way that the player can play the game in expectation of winning the game. SOLUTION: This pachinko machine has a display L with display parts L1, L2, L3, changes patterns on the pattern display parts, and produces a special playing condition when the stopped patterns displayed after a predetermined time coincide with preset ones; an anticipated pattern display part L5 is provided to correspond to the symbol display part L3 that is the last to show the stopped pattern, and after the patterns stopped on the symbol display parts show a finish-reaching condition, a part of the stopped pattern is displayed on the anticipated pattern display part L5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko machine having a symbol display, and more particularly, to a symbol display after reaching a reach state.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a pachinko machine, when a game ball enters a starting port, a symbol on a symbol display portion fluctuates for a predetermined time and then stops, and when those stopped symbols coincide with a preset symbol, a special symbol is displayed. There is a type that allows a player to acquire a large amount of prize balls by inviting a game state. Then, the stop symbol of the symbol display section is in the reach state, and for the player what symbol the symbol to stop last stops at,
I'm interested and stopped after changing the last symbol at low speed.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional display method after reach, freshness is weakened, and a new method is desired. Therefore, the present invention
This is to provide a new and interesting display of what symbol to stop after the reach.

[0004]

The pachinko machine of the present invention comprises:
A symbol display having a symbol display unit is provided, the symbol of the symbol display unit is changed, and a special game state is set when a stop symbol displayed after a predetermined time matches a preset symbol, and finally stopped. A predicted symbol display section is provided corresponding to the symbol display section showing the symbol, and a part of the stopped symbols is displayed on the predicted symbol display section after the stopped symbol of the symbol display section has reached the reach state.

[0005]

After reaching the reach, the predicted symbol display section displays a part of the stopped symbol of the symbol display section that stops last, so that the player can select any of the symbols displayed on the predicted symbol display section. , Or a hit (special game state) occurs, or the player can play with interest.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a game board 1 of a pachinko machine, and a symbol display provided with a single liquid crystal display forming a symbol display L1, L2, L3 and a predicted symbol display L5 to be described later substantially in the center. L is installed. This symbol display section L
1, L2 includes 13 of "0-9, A, C, Z" shown in FIG.
Are displayed, and 14 symbols to which "F" is added are displayed in the symbol display section L3. Also, these symbols are given a pair of marks M to give accents to the symbols,
The font in the upper third of each symbol is a font that matches the other symbols. For example, as shown in the right table of FIG. 3, “0” is “2, 6, 8, 9”, “1”. "Has a font similar to" 4, A "and" 2 "has a font similar to" 0, 6, 8, 9 ".

The symbol display L is a symbol display section L
A liquid crystal display for forming 1, L2, and L3 is installed at the back, and both side portions 40 of the liquid crystal display are shown in FIG.
As shown in (X-X section of (A)), it is cut into a semicircular shape and formed in an inclined shape. For this reason, the symbol display portions L1, L2, L3 can be easily seen from an oblique direction in addition to the front surface.
The next player can enjoy together. Passage entrances 7 are formed on the left and right sides of the display L. The game balls entering the passage entrances 7 are once invisible, are led to the passage exits 8, reciprocate on the stage 9, and then move to the center. It is easy to drop from the part 10 and win the central winning opening 12. Also, from the passage entrance 7 to the passage exit 8, an illumination (LED) L
6, L7 is provided and constantly blinks from the top to the bottom to indicate the falling direction of the game ball. In addition, passage entrance 7
By installing a detector for detecting a game ball to enter into the vicinity of the passage entrance 7, by performing blinking of the illuminations L6 and L7 from the top to the bottom through the detector in response to the fall of the game ball. Thus, the player can recognize the whereabouts of the game ball that has disappeared, giving a sense of relief to the player.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a central winning opening, and 10 denotes a right gate. When a game ball wins or passes through them, the symbols in the symbol display portions L1, L2, L3 fluctuate for a predetermined time, and then the symbol display portions L1, L2. Then, L3 stops and the symbol display section L
When all the stop symbols of 1, L2 and L3 are completed, the special game state is set, and the right shoulder electric accessory 13 takes about 3.7 seconds and 1.9.
Release of seconds occurs at intervals of about 22.9 seconds. When the symbols on the symbol display portions L1 and L2 are aligned, the reach state is set, and the symbol display on the symbol display portion L3 is performed in one of four types of patterns described later. The number of winning (passing) balls to the central winning opening 12 and the right gate 10 is stored up to a maximum of four and displayed on the display 31. Then, when the game ball wins the right shoulder electric auditors goods 13, the lower right symbol 5 starts to change, and about 5.
It stops after 0 seconds, and when it stops at "0", it is off. In other cases (1 to 9, F), the left ordinary electric accessory 15 and the right ordinary electric accessory 16 have a length of about 2.8 seconds. About one release
Perform 2 times at 1.9 second tube intervals. It should be noted that up to four winning balls to the right shoulder electric accessory 13 are stored and displayed on the display 32.

Next, when the player wins the left ordinary electric accessory 15 and the right ordinary electric accessory 16, the lower left symbol 4 starts to fluctuate, stops after about 5.0 seconds, and stops at "0". In other cases (1 to 9, F), the central electric accessory 18 is released for about 5.6 seconds to allow a large amount of prize balls to be discharged. In addition, if seven central electric prizes are awarded, they are closed even within 5.6 seconds. In addition, the maximum number of winning balls is 4 for the left ordinary electric accessory 15 and the right ordinary electric accessory 16.
Are stored and displayed on the display 33.

Next, the symbol display section L1 of the pachinko machine,
The stop symbols of L2 and L3 are stored in the "hit symbol area" used at the time of hitting, "reach symbol area 1" and "reach symbol area 2" used at the time of reaching, and "missing symbol area" used at the time of coming off. The creation of the value will be described with reference to FIG. The symbol counters Z1 and Z2 correspond to symbols stopped on the symbol display portions L1 and L2,
2 (corresponding to symbols 0-9, A, C, Z) circulation counter,
Z3 is 0-13 corresponding to the stop symbol of the symbol display portion L3.
These are circulation counters (corresponding to symbols 0 to 9, A, C, Z, and F), each of which is set to 0 when the power is turned on (S1).
The symbol counter AZ corresponding to the stopped symbol in the special game state (hit) is also initialized when the power is turned on (S1).
(Corresponding to symbols 0 to 9, A, C, and Z), wherein the same stop symbols are shown in symbol display portions L1, L2, and L3. When the power is turned on, "440" is stored in the reach symbol area 1, "441" is stored in the reach symbol area 2, and "012" is stored in the off symbol area in advance.

The hit counter AZ is a circulation counter of 0 to 12 which is counted up every 0.002 seconds (S1 to S4), and the "hit symbol area" corresponds to the symbol display portions L1, L2, L3. The value of the hit counter AZ is stored (S5). On the other hand, the symbol counter Z1 is also counted up every 0.002 seconds, and the symbol counter Z2 is incremented by one by the carry, and the symbol counter Z3 is incremented by one by the carry of the symbol counter Z2 (S6 to S6). S14). Then, it is determined whether or not the symbol counters Z1 and Z2 are equal (S15). If they are not equal, the symbol counter Z is displayed in a "missing symbol area".
The values of 1, Z2 and Z3 are stored (S16). Thereby, at least the stop symbols of the symbol display portions L1 and L2 are different. On the other hand, when Z1 is equal to Z2 in step 15, the data is stored as a reach symbol. However, since two types of reach symbols are employed, it is first determined whether or not the vehicle is in the long reach (S17). Then, in the case of the long reach, the symbol counters Z1 (= Z2) and Z3 are stored in the reach symbol area 2 (S18). Note that the case of the long reach is the symbol counter Z1 (=
This is a case where the value of the symbol counter Z3 becomes a value corresponding to the symbol shown in the right table of FIG. 3 with respect to the value of Z2). Conversely, if the reach is not long, it is determined whether the symbol counters Z2 and Z3 are equal (S19). If not, the symbol counter Z1 (= Z) is set in the reach symbol area 1.
2), Z3 is stored (S20). On the other hand, when Z2 and Z3 are equal, it is conceivable to store a number obtained by adding 1 to Z3 in order to avoid a hit symbol, but Z1 (= Z2)
Is 8, Z3 is 9, and this combination of symbols is a long reach symbol (right table in FIG. 3), which is inappropriate and easily constitutes a symbol.
Is not stored.

As described above, the symbol display portions L1, L2, L
The stop symbol for each state of 3 is a "hit symbol area" for storing the value of the symbol counter AZ when winning, and a "missing symbol area" for storing the values of the symbol counters Z1, Z2 and Z3 when it is out. In the reach state, the symbol counter Z1 (= Z2) and “reach symbol area 1” storing the values of Z3 are stored. In the long reach, the symbol counter Z1 (=
Z2) and Z3 (values corresponding to the symbols in the table on the right in FIG. 3) are changed from the time of power-on using the "reach symbol area 2" storing the values.

Next, the control of the stop symbol of the symbol display will be described with reference to a control flow shown in FIG. When the power of the pachinko machine is turned on, a special counter AT for determining whether or not a special game state is to be generated is counted up from 0 to 0.002 seconds by 1 and is a circulation counter up to 190 (191 types). In addition, in the reach state, in order to diversify various symbol variations, a reach counter RC is introduced. This reach counter RC is set to 0 when the power is turned on, and is a counter using the R register of the CPU. This is a cyclic counter of 0 to 127 which counts up by one word, but uses the lower 3 bits (0 to 7) for selection.

Therefore, it is detected whether or not the game ball has won (passed) the central winning opening 12 or the right gate 10 (S30), and when it is detected, the value of the special counter AT at that time is stored in the judgment data area, and the symbol is stored. Display unit L1, L2, L3
Is started to be changed (S31). Then, 5.857 seconds after the start of the symbol change, the symbol is read from the determination data area to determine whether it is "7" (S32),
When it is "7", the value of the "hit symbol area" is read in order to select a stop symbol of the symbol display portions L1, L2, L3 which causes a hit (special game state), and
9 to 0-9, 10 for A, 11 for C, 12 for Z
(S33).

In order to select a reach pattern, it is determined whether the value of the reach counter RC is 0 to 4 (S3).
4) In this range, the symbol corresponding to the value of the winning symbol area is displayed as the reach pattern 2 in the symbol display section L.
1, L2 is stopped, and the symbol display section L3 is finally stopped (S35). Specifically, the symbol display unit L2 is stopped following the stop of the symbol display unit L1, and the symbol of the symbol display unit L3 is changed at a medium speed of 17 symbols (one symbol is displayed in 0.196 seconds), and 3 symbols are displayed. After a symbol is changed at a very low speed (one symbol is displayed in 0.786 seconds), a 110 symbol is changed at a high speed (one symbol is changed to 0.0
(Displayed in 65 seconds.) After that, rewrite it with a stop symbol and stop.
When the symbols in the symbol display portions L1 and L2 are stopped, a character imitating a UFO appears as shown in FIG. 5 (A), and the predicted symbol display portion L from the other side of the symbol display portion L3.
5 is raised or lowered to display a part (approximately one-third of the upper part) of the stop symbol in the symbol display portion L3. For example, when the winning symbol is "7", the symbol display portion L1,
The stop symbols of L2 are both "7" in the reach state, and during the symbol change of the symbol table time portion L3, when approximately 1/3 of "7" is displayed on the predicted symbol display portion L5, "7", " 3 ",
The symbol in the upper third of "Z" is the same symbol, and the player can predict that any one of "7", "3", and "Z" will be the stop symbol. As a result, while the symbol on the symbol display section L3 in the reach state is changing, the player determines that the symbol on the symbol display section L3 to be stopped last is any one of "7", "3", and "Z". Watch with expectations and anxiety while predicting. Then, after the symbol fluctuation time of 12.912 seconds after the reach, “7” which becomes a hit (special game state) is displayed,
The next processing is performed.

It is determined whether the value of the reach counter RC is 5 or 6 (S37). At this time, symbols corresponding to the value of the "hit symbol area" are sequentially displayed as the reach pattern 3 in the symbol display section L1. , L2 followed by the symbol display section L
3 is displayed last (S38). More specifically, the symbol display unit L2 is stopped after the symbol display unit L1 is stopped, and the symbol of the symbol display unit L3 is changed at a medium speed of 17 symbols (one symbol is displayed in 0.196 seconds). After the symbols are changed at a very low speed (one symbol is displayed at 0.786 seconds), the 110 symbols are changed at a high speed (one symbol is displayed at 0.065 seconds) and temporarily stopped for 0.497 seconds. Then, after again changing the 94 symbols at a high speed (displaying one symbol in 0.065 seconds), the stop symbol is rewritten and the winning symbol is displayed. Also in this case, as described above,
In order to display a part of stop symbols on the predicted symbol display section L5,
The player can predict the stop symbol. As a result, the player can predict the stop symbol, but the symbol change time after the reach takes 19.570 seconds, and a win is finally displayed while being impatient.

On the other hand, when the reach counter RC is other than the above, the display method of the reach pattern 4 is adopted, and symbols corresponding to the value of the hit symbol area are sequentially displayed in the symbol display section L1, L1.
Following L2, the symbol display section L3 is displayed last (S3
9). Specifically, after the symbol display unit L1 is stopped, the symbol display unit L2 is stopped, and the symbol on the symbol display unit L3 is 17 symbols.
Medium speed fluctuation of the symbol (1 symbol is displayed in 0.196 seconds), 3
After the symbol fluctuates very slowly (one symbol is displayed in 0.786 seconds), the display is stopped. Also in this case, by displaying a part of the stop symbol on the predicted symbol display portion L5, the player can predict the stop symbol, but the symbol variation time after the reach is 5.702 seconds, which is short. A win is displayed based on the fluctuation of the symbol display section L3.

Next, at step 32, the special counter A
The processing when T is not 7 (missing) will be described.
It is determined whether or not the special counter AT is "17, 21, 23, 149" (S40), and if it matches any of them, the value of "reach symbol area 2" is read as long reach to determine a stop symbol (S41). ). Also, in this case, in order to achieve the reach state, a pattern to be displayed is selected via the reach counter RC (S42). When the reach counter RC is 0 to 4, the symbol is displayed in the reach pattern 2 described above. After displaying the portion L3, a symbol is displayed as a miss (S43), and the next process is performed. In addition, referring to FIG. 5 (B), the specific example will be described. In the reach symbol area 2, for example, "A", "A", "A", as symbols for stopping the symbol display portions L1, L2, L3. 4 "is stored. For this reason, after the symbols in the symbol display portions L1 and L2 have stopped, the predicted symbol display portion L5 displays the symbol “A” substantially above the stop symbol “A”.
When / 3 is displayed, the player stops the symbol in the changing symbol display portion L3 from stopping at one of "1", "A", and "4" from the symbol displayed on the predicted symbol display portion L5. Anticipating, having the expectation of stopping at "A", playing a reach state that is different from the past, and eventually "A",
“A” and “4” are stop symbols. On the other hand, when the reach counter RC is not 0 to 4 in step 42,
As the long reach, a part of the symbol is displayed on the predicted symbol display portion L5 in accordance with the reach pattern 3, and the symbol on the symbol display portion L3 is changed and stopped (S44).

In step 40, the special counter A
When T is not “17, 21, 23, 149”, the special counter AT is “19, 25, 27, 29, 145,
147, 151, 153, 155, 157 "(S50). At that time, the value of the" reach symbol area 1 "is read and the symbol display section L is displayed with the reach pattern 1.
1, L2 and L3 are displayed (S51, S52). Specifically, after the symbol display unit L1 is stopped, the symbol display unit L2
Is stopped, and the symbols on the symbol display section L3 change the medium speed of 17 symbols (one symbol is displayed at 0.196 seconds), and the three symbols change at a very low speed (one symbol is displayed at 0.786 seconds), And after three patterns are changed at high speed (one symbol is displayed in 0.065 seconds),
After 0.019 seconds, it is rewritten with a stop symbol and stopped. Therefore, in the reach pattern 1, the predicted symbol display portion L5
Is not displayed, the possibility of winning is not displayed, and the fluctuation time of the symbol display unit L3 is 5.898 to 5.918 seconds, the fluctuation is stopped in a short time, and the symbol is processed as the outreach. On the other hand, in step 50, the special counter AT is "19, 25, 2".
7, 29, 145, 147, 151, 153, 155,
If it is not "157", a symbol corresponding to the value of the "missing symbol area" is displayed as a stop symbol (S53).

As described above, the symbol display of the present invention can give a player a sense of expectation and anxiety by changing the reach pattern even when a hit (special game state) occurs. It is possible to improve the fun of the game because various patterns are adopted even in the off-reach mode. In addition, at the time of the reach, by displaying a part of the stop symbols on the predicted symbol display section, the player can play the game in a state where it is known whether to stop at any of the predicted symbols, Because the game is played with anxiety, it becomes more interesting than before.

[0021]

According to the present invention, since a part of the stop symbol is displayed on the predicted symbol display section after the reach, the player plays the game with the stop symbol predicted in advance. Therefore, the player can play the game with a sense of expectation and anxiety different from those of the related art, thereby improving the interest.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a game board.

FIG. 2 is a symbol displayed on a symbol display section L1, L2, L3.

FIG. 3 is a control flow for selecting a stop symbol.

FIG. 4 is a control flow of a stop symbol of a symbol display.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view and a sectional view of the display.

[Explanation of symbols]

 L Symbol display L1, L2, L3 Symbol display L5 Predicted symbol display

Claims (1)

[Claims] A symbol display having a symbol display unit is provided,
The pachinko machine which fluctuates the symbol of the symbol display unit and enters a special game state when a stop symbol displayed after a predetermined time matches a preset symbol, and finally corresponds to a symbol display unit showing a stop symbol. A pachinko machine comprising a predicted symbol display unit, and displaying a part of the stopped symbol on the predicted symbol display unit after the stopped symbol of the symbol display unit has reached the reach state.