JPH11164945A - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a Pachinko (Japanese pin ball game) machine, in which a big prize winning port is continuously opened by the occurrence of a big hit, simple in configuration and low in manufacturing cost. SOLUTION: A hit ball enters into a start prize winning port which is arranged on a game board so that the patterns of a pattern fluctuation display equipment 7 are stopped after fluctuation display. When the stop patterns becomes specified patterns with a possibility, a state becomes the special game one so as to permit the big prize winning port to become the open state. When a prescribed number of big balls enter the big prize winning port or a prescribed restricting time elapses, the big prize winning port becomes a closed state. When a prescribed continuity condition is established during the open state, the big prize wining port is closed once but is soon opened again so that the big prize winning port is continuously opened with prescribed times as a limit at the time of the establishment of the continuity condition after that. In this case, the continuity condition is the one where the entering number of the hit balls into the big prize winning port reaches a prescribed number.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko gaming machine in which a special symbol is displayed on a symbol variation display, a special game state is established, and a special winning opening is continuously opened when a predetermined condition is satisfied. It is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, a first-class pachinko gaming machine commonly called a "fever machine" is a type of pachinko game machine such as a color liquid crystal display, a CRT or the like, which is provided with a hit ball in a starting winning hole provided in a game board. When the symbol fluctuation indicator displays the symbol for a certain period of time and stops, and when the stopped symbol becomes a specific symbol such as "777" with a certain probability by chance, it becomes a special game state (big hit) and opens and closes the special winning opening The door is opened by the operation of the electric opening and closing device, and a predetermined number of hit balls (normally 10
When a predetermined time limit (usually 30 seconds) elapses after the ball is thrown in or in the open state, the so-called first round is over and the special winning opening is closed once. In the case where a hit ball has entered the continuous winning opening (referred to as V zone) provided in the second round, the second round starts and the large winning opening is opened again immediately. A predetermined number of hit balls (usually one hit) are
0) When a ball is thrown in or a predetermined time limit (usually 30 seconds) elapses in the open state, the second round is over and the special winning opening is closed again, but during the second round, the special winning opening is closed. When a hit ball has hit the provided continuous winning opening (referred to as V zone), the third round starts and the large winning opening is opened again immediately. In this way, the large winning opening is continuously opened until the final round (for example, the 16th round), provided that a hit ball has been won in the continuous winning opening during each round. In this way, during the special game state, the opening and closing door of the special winning opening is continuously opened up to a predetermined number of rounds, so that it is extremely easy to hit a ball, so that a large number of premium balls can be obtained and a large profit for the player can be obtained. It is configured to be brought.

[0003]

By the way, in this kind of pachinko game machine, it is an absolute condition for the player to always make one hit ball into the continuous winning opening during each round, and this condition is satisfied. If you do not do this, you will not continue to the next round and the big winning opening will not be opened as commonly called "punk", so that such "punk" will not occur frequently, In particular, recently, in the first-type pachinko gaming machines, a ball guiding shutter or a ball stopping device operated by a solenoid is provided immediately above the continuous winning opening, so that a hit ball can enter the continuous winning opening extremely easily. However, the existence of such a ball guiding shutter or a ball stopping device has a problem that the structure becomes complicated and the size becomes large.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and stops after a symbol of a symbol variation display is changed and displayed by a hit ball entering a starting winning hole provided in a game board. When the stop symbol becomes a specific symbol by accident, the special game state is established and the special winning opening is opened, and when a predetermined number of hit balls are inserted into the special winning opening or a predetermined time limit elapses, the large winning opening is determined. The winning opening is closed, and if a predetermined continuation condition is satisfied during the opening state, the large winning opening is immediately opened again once closed, and thereafter the continuation condition is satisfied. Then, in the pachinko game machine in which the special winning opening is continuously opened up to a predetermined number of times, the continuation condition is that the number of hit balls into the special winning opening reaches the predetermined number. And

[0005] The present invention also provides a symbol variation display for displaying a symbol in a fluctuating manner by hitting a ball into a starting winning port provided on a game board, and a symbol when a stop symbol of the symbol variation indicator becomes a specific symbol. A jackpot generating means for bringing a special game state, an electric opening / closing device for opening a special winning opening when the special game state is set, a ball counter for counting the number of hit balls hitting the special winning opening, A timer for measuring the time the mouth is in the open state, and a round number counting means for counting the number of opening and closing of the special winning opening, and closing the special winning opening by the ball counter counting a predetermined number of hit balls. And a continuation condition is satisfied.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a front view of the pachinko gaming machine. In the figure, 1 is an upper plate for receiving a prize ball, 2 is a lower plate, 3 is a hitting firing handle, 4 is a speaker, 5 is a gaming board, 6 is a front frame, Reference numeral 7 denotes a symbol change display comprising a liquid crystal display provided on the game board 5, reference numeral 8 denotes a pass gate, reference numeral 9 denotes a starting winning opening, and reference numerals 10 and 11 denote ordinary winning openings.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a mounting substrate 13 as shown in FIG.
A large winning opening in the shape of a rectangle opened at the center of the vehicle.
Is pivoted by Then, as shown in FIG. 3, an electric opening / closing device (solenoid) 16 is provided on the back side of the mounting board 13 to open and close the opening / closing door 14. That is,
Pin 1 is attached to ear piece 17 integrally provided on the back side of door 14.
8 are protruded, and projections 20 and 21 are protruded from a linking piece 19 fixed to the operating shaft of the electric opening / closing device 16, and the pin 18 is located between the projections 20 and 21. Reference numeral 22 denotes a winning ball counting switch provided for counting hit balls hitting the special winning opening 12.

On the back side of the pachinko gaming machine, there is provided a game control circuit board 23 for operating the symbol variation display 7 and the electric opening / closing device 16 and the like. As shown in the block diagram of FIG. 4, the game control circuit board 23 receives an electric signal of a hit ball winning from a starting winning port switch 24 provided in the starting winning port 9 and the winning ball counting switch 22, respectively. .

The game control circuit board 23 is activated by an electric signal from the starting winning opening switch 24 and has a jackpot generating means for bringing a special game state by chance with a predetermined probability. It comprises a continuation condition determining means operated by a signal, a display driving means, a sound effect generating means, and a driving control means. Then, when a hit ball is won in the starting winning opening 9, the display driving means displays a three-digit number, symbol, or the like on the symbol variation display 7 in a variable manner, stops the variation after a predetermined time, and stops the symbol if it is a big hit. Is displayed as a specific symbol such as "777". If no big hit occurs, other random stop symbols are displayed. When a big hit occurs, the speaker 4 is caused to emit a sound effect via the sound effect generating means. When the special game state is established, the electric opening / closing device 16 is driven via the drive control means, and the special winning opening 1
The second opening / closing door 14 is opened.

[0010] The continuation condition judging means is a special winning opening 12
A timer for measuring the time during which the opening is in the open state; a ball counter for receiving the electric signal from the winning ball counting switch 22 to count the number of hit balls hitting the special winning opening 12; The round number counting means is provided.

In this pachinko gaming machine, as shown in a simplified flowchart of FIG.
When a hit ball enters (step a), the symbol change indicator 7 is variably displayed and the stop symbol becomes a specific symbol such as "777" and a big hit occurs (step b), a special game state is brought and a special winning opening 12 is opened. (Step c).

The elapsed time from the opening state is measured by the timer, and the number of hit balls hitting the special winning opening 12 is counted by the ball counter.
When a predetermined number (10) of hit balls enter the special winning opening 12 within a predetermined time limit (30 seconds), a continuation condition is established, a continuation condition generation signal is output through steps d and e, and a special winning opening is provided. 12 is closed. (Steps f and g). By the operation of the round number counting means, the number of continuations at step h, that is, the number of opening and closing of the special winning opening 12 is a predetermined number (1
It is determined whether or not the number has reached 6 times. If the number has not reached, the process returns to step c and the special winning opening 12 is immediately opened again. Therefore, as long as the continuation condition is satisfied, the special winning opening 12 is repeatedly opened up to a maximum of 16 times (16 rounds), so that the player can acquire many premium balls. Note that the actual number of hit balls and the number of rounds in each round are sequentially displayed on the symbol variation display 7, and the player can proceed with the round with reference to the display.

On the other hand, even if the special winning opening 12 is in the open state, when a predetermined limit time elapses without a predetermined number of hit balls hitting, the process proceeds to step i, the special winning opening 12 is closed and a so-called "punk state". Becomes That is, when the special winning opening is closed due to the lapse of the time limit without hitting a predetermined number of hit balls in the special winning opening 12, the special winning opening is opened unless a big hit occurs again. The special game state ends in the middle of the round without any.

In the present invention, the continuation condition is set to the condition that the number of hit balls hitting the special winning opening 12 reaches the predetermined number and the condition for changing the special winning opening 12 from the open state to the closed state is set. Since the electric signal of the prize ball counting switch 22 is originally measured by being input to the ball counter of the continuation condition determining means, the signal processing is simply performed without providing any additional equipment. It can be easily configured simply by setting.

[0015]

As described above, the pachinko gaming machine of the present invention is
When the number of hit balls hitting the special winning opening reaches the predetermined number, the continuation condition is satisfied, and the special winning opening is continuously opened up to a predetermined number of times, so that the first kind of pachinko game The continuation condition can be determined by counting the ball counter originally provided in the machine. Therefore, there is no need for a device for setting continuation conditions such as the conventional continuous winning opening, so that the configuration is extremely simple, the size can be reduced, and the production cost can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a winning port of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a winning port of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the pachinko game machine according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 5 Game board 7 Symbol change display 9 Start winning opening 12 Big winning opening 14 Opening / closing door 16 Electric open / close device 22 Winning ball counting switch 23 Game control circuit board 24 Starting winning opening switch

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A special game state when a symbol is displayed on a symbol change indicator by a hit ball in a start winning hole provided on a game board and then stopped, and the stopped symbol becomes a specific symbol by accident. As a result, the special winning opening is in an open state, and when a predetermined number of hit balls or a predetermined time limit elapses, the special winning opening is in a closed state,
If the predetermined continuation condition is satisfied during the opening state, the special winning opening will be opened again immediately after closing once, and if the continuing condition is satisfied thereafter, the special winning opening will be the predetermined opening condition. A pachinko gaming machine wherein the pachinko gaming machine is continuously opened for a limited number of times, wherein the continuation condition is that the number of hit balls hitting the special winning opening reaches the predetermined number. 2. A symbol variation display for varying a symbol by hitting a ball into a starting winning hole provided on a game board, and a special game state when a symbol of the symbol variation indicator becomes a specific symbol. A jackpot generating means, a motorized opening / closing device for opening a special winning opening when a special game state is established, a ball counter for counting the number of hit balls hitting the special winning opening, and the special winning opening opened. A timer for measuring the state time and a round number counting means for counting the number of opening and closing of the special winning opening, the ball counter counts a predetermined number of hit balls to close the special winning opening, and The pachinko gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein a continuation condition is satisfied.