JPH1085404A - Game machine and game method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine and a game method capable of arousing the thrill and excitement of a player more by changing the display contents of a pattern matching game. SOLUTION: When a ball hit onto a game panel surface enters a specified winning port 12, after patterns are respectively scrolled in a fixed direction and displayed on plural pattern display areas 20a-20c provided in a variable display means 20, the scrolling operation of the pattern is stopped in a state where an optional pattern is displayed. At the time, the pattern displayed in at least one pattern display area and the pattern displayed in the other pattern display area are scrolled in a different direction. In such a manner, since the patterns displayed in the plural pattern display areas are scrolled in the different direction, the display contents during scrolling are full of changes and the thrill and the excitement are given to the player.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game machine and a game method for displaying a predetermined symbol matching game when a ball hit on a game board has won a specific winning opening.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional gaming machine, a so-called pattern matching game is displayed on a liquid crystal display when a ball is won in a specific winning opening, and a special value advantageous to a player is given when a specific pattern is completed. There is a fever machine.

[0003] Usually, when a ball wins a specific winning opening, the fever machine circularly scrolls and displays all of the plurality of symbols displayed on the liquid crystal display in the same direction, and then performs the scrolling operation. The symbols are stopped in order and the symbols are fixed one by one. Then, when the scrolling operation of all the symbols is stopped and a specific symbol is completed, a special value advantageous to the player is given.

[0004]

However, in such a conventional technique, since the symbols are scrolled in the same direction, the display content of the symbol matching game is monotonous and has little change, so that the thrill and excitement of the player are increased. There was a problem that it was difficult to evoke enough.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and has a change in the display content of a symbol matching game which is triggered by a ball winning a specific winning opening. It is an object of the present invention to provide a gaming machine and a gaming method that can further stimulate the thrill and excitement of a player.

[0006]

The gist of the present invention to achieve the above object lies in the following inventions. [1] An arbitrary symbol can be displayed on a gaming machine (10) that displays a predetermined symbol matching game when a ball hit on the game board surface (11) wins a specific winning opening (12). A variable display means (20) having a plurality of symbol display areas (20a to 20c);
When the ball wins, the symbols are moved in a predetermined direction on each of the symbol display areas (20a to 20c) of the variable display means (20) to display a plurality of predetermined symbols cyclically. Display control means (40) for stopping the movement of the symbol while an arbitrary symbol is displayed, wherein the display control means (40) includes at least one symbol display area (2).
0b) is displayed in another symbol display area (20a, 2b).
A gaming machine (10) characterized by moving in a direction different from the symbol displayed in 0c).

[2] The variable display means (20) has three or more symbol display areas (20a to 20c) provided side by side, and the display control means (40) has symbol display areas (20a, 20a, The gaming machine (10) according to [1], wherein the symbol displayed in the symbol 20c) and the symbol displayed in the symbol display area (20b) arranged therebetween are moved in opposite directions. .

[3] In a game method for displaying a predetermined symbol matching game when a ball hit on the game board surface (11) wins a specific winning opening (12), the ball is inserted into the specific winning opening (12). When a symbol is won, the symbols are moved in a predetermined direction on a plurality of symbol display areas (20a to 20c) of the variable display means (20) to cyclically display a plurality of predetermined symbols, and then, While the movement of the symbol is stopped in a state where the symbol is displayed, the symbol is moved in a different direction between at least one symbol display area (20b) and the other symbol display areas (20a, 20c). A featured gaming method.

The present invention operates as follows. When the ball hit on the game board surface (11) wins the specific winning opening (12), the symbol is moved in a predetermined direction on each symbol display area (20a to 20c) of the variable display means (20). After cyclically displaying a plurality of predetermined symbols, the movement of the symbols is stopped in a state where an arbitrary symbol is displayed. At this time, at least one symbol display area (20
b) The symbol to be displayed in the symbol and other symbol display areas (20a, 20)
The symbol displayed in c) is moved in a different direction.

As described above, a plurality of symbol display areas (20a to 20a)
Since the symbol displayed in 20c) is cyclically moved in different directions, the display content during scrolling is rich in changes, and it is possible to give the player thrill and excitement.

For example, three symbol display areas (20a to 20a)
In the case of having 20c), the symbols in the left and right regions are scrolled from top to bottom, and the symbols in the center region are scrolled from bottom to top. By doing this,
The relative movement speed of the symbols is increased, which can give more thrill and excitement.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Each drawing shows one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, a gaming machine 1 according to the present invention
0 launches a ball by rotating the handle 14,
This is a pachinko machine that competes for winning balls in various winning openings. Note that the gaming machine 10 according to the present invention can be applied to various game machines that use a ball as a game medium, such as an arrangement ball machine.

The gaming machine 10 is provided with a gaming board surface 11 as a place where a hit ball flows down. The game board surface 11 is provided with a winning opening, various kinds of accessories, obstacle nails, an out opening, and the like. At a substantially central portion of the game board surface 11, a variable display means 20 as a central accessory for displaying a symbol matching game is provided. Here, as the variable display means 20,
A color liquid crystal display is used. In addition, a monochrome liquid crystal display or a CR
A T display or the like can also be used.

The variable display means 20 has three symbol display areas 20a, 20b, and 2 for displaying an arbitrary symbol.
0c. Here, a number matching game, which looks like a slot machine, is displayed as a symbol matching game in these symbol display areas.

Below the variable display means 20, a specific winning opening 12 generally called a start chucker is provided. The number matching game is executed on the variable display means 20 when the ball hit on the game board surface 11 wins the specific winning opening 12.

Below the specific winning opening 12, there is provided a variable winning opening 30 as a special value generating means.
The variable winning opening 30 is a large winning opening that is normally closed, but repeatedly opens and closes the winning opening when giving a special value to the player. By opening the winning opening of the variable winning opening 30, a state where the winning probability of the ball is high is formed.

At the lower part of the game board surface 11, a front plate 15 for holding a ball to be used for the game is further provided.
A lower plate 16 is provided for receiving a ball overflowing from the bottom plate.
On the right side of the lower plate 16 is provided a handle 14 for operating the firing of a ball. A control circuit for controlling various operations of the gaming machine 10 is mounted on the inside of the machine such as on the back surface of the game board 11.

FIG. 1 shows an outline of a circuit configuration of a gaming machine 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The specific winning opening 12 includes a winning detection switch 13 for detecting a winning ball. The prize detecting switch 13 may be a mechanical switch, an optical sensor that detects a prize when light is blocked by a ball, or a magnetic sensor that detects a change in a magnetic field due to the passage of a ball. it can.

A winning signal 51 output from the winning detection switch 13 when a ball winning is detected is transmitted to the variable display means 20.
Are input to the display control means 40 for controlling the scrolling operation of the numbers displayed in. The display control means 40 includes a random lottery means 41, a stop symbol selection means 42, a first scroll display means 43, and a second scroll display means 4.
4 is provided.

The random lottery means 41 has a random number generator (not shown), and when a winning signal 51 is input, random lottery is performed by the random number generator. Stop symbol selection means 4
Reference numeral 2 denotes a circuit portion for setting a combination of symbols to be finally displayed according to a random lottery result at the time of stopping the symbol scrolling operation. If a random lottery wins, a combination of three-digit numbers such as "777" is set as a stop symbol. When the lottery result is out of order, a combination of numbers in which the numbers are not aligned is set as a stop symbol.

The first scroll display means 43 includes a symbol display area 20 arranged at both ends of the variable display means 20.
a, a display control circuit for controlling a scrolling operation for cyclically moving the symbols displayed on 20c. The second scroll display means 44 is a circuit portion for controlling a scroll operation of a symbol displayed in the central symbol display area 20b.

The first scroll display means 43 scrolls numbers displayed in the symbol display areas 20a and 20c from top to bottom, and displays numbers from 0 to 9 cyclically. On the other hand, the second scroll display means 44 displays the symbol 2
The number displayed in 0b is scrolled upward from the bottom.

The display control means 40 is connected to a special value generating means 30 for giving a special value to a player when a random lottery result is a hit. Special value generation means 3
Reference numeral 0 denotes a variable winning opening provided with an attacker 31 as a large winning opening which is closed in a normal state but opened when a special value advantageous to a player is given. Attacker 3
1 is driven to open and close by a solenoid 32.

The special value generating means 30 operates to repeat the opening / closing operation of the attacker 31 which is opened for a certain period (for example, 29 seconds) and closed for a short time (about 2 seconds) when the random lottery result is a hit. . The number of rounds in which the attacker 31 is opened and closed is set to 16 times.

When a predetermined number (for example, 10) of balls are won in each round, the attacker 33 is closed even before a predetermined time has elapsed. This prevents an excessive increase in the number of balls paid out by winning.

Display control means 40, random lottery means 41,
Stop symbol selection means 42, first scroll display means 4
3. The second scroll display means 44 and the like include a CPU (Central Processing Unit) that performs a central function of various controls in the gaming machine 10, a ROM (Read Only Memory),
It is composed of a circuit having M (random access memory) as a main part.

The ROM stores various fixed data such as programs executed by the CPU and symbols of displayed numbers. The RAM is a work memory for storing data temporarily required for executing a program.

Next, an operation flow in the gaming machine 10 will be described. FIG. 3 schematically shows the flow of the operation performed by the gaming machine 10, and FIG. 4 schematically shows the display contents of the variable display means 20. When the ball has won the specific winning opening 12 (Step S101; Y), the random lottery means 41 of the display control means 40 performs a random lottery (Step S102).

When the lottery result is a hit (step S1)
03; Y), the stopped symbol selecting means 42 sets “777” as a symbol combination to be finally displayed when the scrolling operation is stopped (step S104). On the other hand, when the lottery result is out of order (step S103; N), the three-digit numbers having different values are set as a combination of symbols to be finally displayed (step S105).

Thereafter, the first scroll display means 43
Moves the symbols from top to bottom on the symbol display areas 20a and 20c at both ends to scroll and display the symbols. In parallel with this, the second scroll display means 44 moves the symbols from bottom to top on the symbol display area 20b. And scroll display is performed (step S106). As shown in FIG. 4, the variable display means 20 displays a symbol virtually imagined on the slot machine 60. That is, when the three drums 60a to 60c with numbers 0 to 9 drawn on the outer peripheral surface are rotated, and these drums are viewed from the display window 61 arranged in front of the drums, the respective symbol display areas 20a To 20c.

After the scroll operation has been performed for a certain period of time, the scroll operation is stopped in a state where the previously set stop symbol is displayed (step S107). Then, when the lottery result is a hit and a state in which the numbers are aligned such as “777” is finally displayed on the variable display means 20 (step S
108; Y), the variable winning opening is opened and closed to give a special value to the player (step S109).

As described above, since the directions in which the symbols move cyclically are different, the display contents are changed, and the player can be given more thrill and excitement.

In the embodiment described above, the symbols displayed on the left and right ends are moved downward, and the symbols displayed in the center symbol display area are moved upward. However, the symbols may be reversed. Alternatively, the symbol displayed on one of the left and right ends may be cyclically moved in a direction different from the symbol displayed on the remaining two symbol display areas. The cyclic movement direction of the symbol can be arbitrarily set as long as at least one is different from the other. Further, each time the symbol matching game is performed, the direction in which the symbol circulates may be changed.

In the embodiment, the number matching game is performed as the symbol matching game. However, a symbol matching game in which other symbols such as fruit and fish are aligned may be used. Further, the number of symbol display areas is not limited to three.

[0035]

According to the gaming machine and the gaming method according to the present invention, the symbols displayed in at least one symbol display area are scrolled in a direction different from the symbols displayed in the other symbol display areas. Can be varied, and the thrill and excitement of the player can be further evoked.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of a circuit configuration of a gaming machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing the gaming machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of an operation performed by the gaming machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing display contents of variable display means of the gaming machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Game machine 11 ... Game board surface 12 ... Specific winning opening 13 ... Winning detection switch 14 ... Handle 15 ... Front plate 16 ... Bottom plate 20 ... Variable display means 20a-20c ... Symbol display area 30 ... Special value generation means 31 ... Attacker 32 solenoid 40 display control means 41 random lottery means 42 stopped symbol selection means 43 first scroll means 44 second scroll means 51 winning signal 60, 60a-60c drum 61 display window

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A game machine for displaying a predetermined symbol matching game when a ball hit on a gaming board surface wins a specific winning opening, wherein a plurality of symbol display areas capable of displaying an arbitrary symbol are provided. After the variable display means and the ball has won the specific winning opening, after the symbols are moved in a predetermined direction on each symbol display area of the variable display means, and a predetermined plurality of symbols are cyclically displayed. Display control means for stopping the movement of the symbol while displaying any symbol, wherein the display control means is different from the symbol displayed in at least one symbol display area in the other symbol display area. A gaming machine characterized by moving in a direction. 2. The variable display means has three or more symbol display areas provided side by side, and the display control means comprises symbols displayed in symbol display areas at both ends and symbols arranged between them. 2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the symbols displayed in the display area are moved in opposite directions. 3. A game method for displaying a predetermined symbol matching game when a ball hit on a game board surface wins a specific winning opening, wherein a variable display means is provided when the ball wins in the specific winning opening. After moving a symbol in a fixed direction on each of a plurality of symbol display areas and cyclically displaying a plurality of predetermined symbols, the movement of the symbol is stopped in a state where an arbitrary symbol is displayed, and the symbol is stopped. A moving method in which at least one symbol display area and another symbol display area are moved in different directions.