JP2808264B2 - Information display device in pachinko gaming machines - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko game machine having a card-type ball lending machine and a special prize such as a jackpot, and displays game information such as the number of occurrences of the special prize to a player. The present invention relates to an information display device.

[0002]

So-called de <br/> Jipachi called pachinko machines installed in BACKGROUND ART pachinko hall, CRT in the middle of the well-known manner the game board, liquid crystal, or special symbol variable display consisting of a rotating drum or the like When a hit ball enters a predetermined starting winning opening provided in the game board, a symbol such as a three-digit number displayed on the special symbol change indicator fluctuates so as to rotate all at once, and a predetermined symbol is displayed. After a certain time, the rotation stops sequentially, and when the symbols are aligned with a predetermined probability, for example, "777", a so-called jackpot is opened, and a large winning port on the game board is opened by the operation of the solenoid, and the ball is extremely hit. It is configured so that the player can easily be given a large amount of prize balls in an easy state.

Conventionally, each pachinko gaming machine in a pachinko hall is provided with a sensor for detecting a hit ball, a prize ball, and the like, and a signal from the sensor and a special prize generation signal transmitted from a game control circuit are collected and managed. Input to the device,
By storing the information, game information such as the difference between the number of hit balls and the number of premium balls and the cumulative number of special prizes can be grasped on the display of the management room.

By the way, the above-mentioned game information is greatly helpful in selecting a pachinko gaming machine to be played by a player. In particular, the number of special prizes and the number of hits to the starting port of a hitting ball providing the special prize, ie, start Information such as whether the number of times is large or small is a serious concern for the player.

On the other hand, in recent pachinko gaming machines called CR machines, card-type ball lending machines are provided adjacent to each other, and a predetermined prepaid card (magnetic card) is inserted into the slot. By inserting the ball into the pachinko gaming machine, the ball can be lent to the pachinko gaming machine by operating the required number of balls. The remaining amount is updated and recorded. In the card-type ball lending machine, the balance recorded on the card is displayed on a data display such as a 7-segment display so that the balance of the card can be checked at any time.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention provides a game system in which game information such as the number of starts can be displayed to a player using a data display provided for displaying the amount of money on a card as described above. In this way, it is possible to provide a reference material for a player to select a pachinko gaming machine, and to make pachinko players more convenient.

[0007]

For this purpose, the present invention provides a pachinko gaming machine having a ball lending machine capable of lending a ball by inserting a card, the pachinko gaming machine having a starter provided on a gaming board. When the ball hits the mouth, the symbol change of the special symbol change indicator starts, a jackpot occurs at a predetermined probability, and a game control circuit for giving a special prize to the player is provided. A data display and a display selection switch are provided at appropriate positions, and the number of occurrences of a start, a special prize, etc., transmitted from the game control circuit is determined.
Provided a game history display control circuit for switching display on the data display their game history information by the operation of the display select switch with accumulatively stored for each business day, and the in the recreation history display control circuit A balance priority display means for preferentially displaying the balance amount of the card on the data display when the card is inserted into the ball lending machine is provided. Further, the present invention is in the pachinko game machine, after the player footwear <br/> history information on data display display select switch is operated is displayed for a predetermined display time, the data displayed when the card is inserted The display is automatically switched so that the display switches to the display of the balance amount of the card, and when no card is inserted, the display switches to the display of the number of starts since the last occurrence of the special prize.

[0008]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a front view of the pachinko gaming machine 1. In the figure, reference numeral 2 denotes an upper plate on which a hit ball is pooled, 3 denotes a handle for firing a ball which is rotated by a player, 4 denotes a lower plate for receiving a premium ball, and 5 denotes a lower plate. It is a glass frame provided on the front surface so that it can be opened and closed with a key. The game board 10 has a windmill 9, a normal winning opening 11,
A starting port 13, a special winning port 14, a special symbol change display 15 including a color liquid crystal display, a CRT, and the like are provided. Then, when the ball enters the starting port 13, FIG.
By the operation of the game control circuit 6 shown in FIG. 4, the three-digit numbers, symbols, and the like displayed on the special symbol change display 15 fluctuate as if they are rotating at the same time, and after several seconds, the rotations are sequentially stopped, and are kept constant. When the symbols are aligned like "777", "☆☆☆", etc. with a probability of "1", a big hit is won, and the big winning opening 14 is opened by the operation of the solenoid, and the hit ball flowing down on the game board 10 is hit with the big winning. will very easily enter the mouth 14, it is given at one of the large amount of prize ball to the player guests.

On the other hand, reference numeral 20 denotes a card-type ball lending machine provided adjacent to the pachinko gaming machine 1, and reference numeral 21 denotes a card slot provided on the front surface thereof. On the front of the upper plate 2 of the pachinko gaming machine 1, there is provided a data display 27 which is a combination of several dot matrix displays 25 composed of light emitting diodes and a 7-segment display 26 as shown in FIG. 28 is a display selection switch provided next to the data display 27, 29 is a ball lending switch, 30 is a card return switch, and 31 is a ball lending possible display lamp.

[0010] The configuration of the information display device of the present invention, as shown in block diagram in FIG. 3, the information display device of the present invention, the game control circuit 6 to the game history display control circuit 40, the card-type ball lending machine 20, the data display 27 are connected, the recreation history display control circuit 40 includes a microprocessor, a ROM for program writing, and EEPROM for data recording, a voltage monitoring circuit, the data display 27 driver And an IC. The microprocessor operates as shown in the block diagram of FIG. 4 and the flowcharts of FIGS. 5 to 7 according to the program read from the ROM.

That is, the power is turned on, and the card type ball rental machine 2
When a predetermined card is inserted into step 0 (step (a)),
As shown in FIG. 8, an index display such as "card balance amount" and "$" is displayed on the dot matrix display 25 of the data display 27, and the 7-segment display 2 is displayed.
6, the balance amount read from the card is displayed.
When a card is not inserted, an index display such as "the number of starts since the last special prize" is displayed on the dot matrix display 25 as shown in FIG. 9, and the number is numerically displayed on the 7-segment display 26. Is done. When there is a new game information signal such as a start signal and a special prize signal from the game control circuit 6 (step (b)), the information content is updated. When the display selection switch 28 is pressed (step (c)), each time the switch is pressed, the display content advances one by one as shown in FIGS. 9 to 15, so that the player knows the information he wants to know. Can be.
When a fixed time has elapsed since the display selection switch 28 was last pressed (step (d)), the process returns to step (a) on condition that the power is continuously on (step (e)). The display returns to the balance display or the start count display since the last special prize.

[0012] Incidentally, by the gaming footwear <br/> history count storage unit of the game history display control circuit 40 which is a timer interrupt subroutine shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6 is executed, the display contents of the data display and game footwear The history is always updated. That is, when a special prize signal is obtained from the game control circuit 6, the stored value of the register of the number of start times since the previous special prize is set to zero, and the stored value of the register of the number of special prizes today is incremented by one to obtain a start signal. When the value is stored, the stored value of the register of the number of starts since the last prize is +
At the same time, the value stored in the register of the number of starts of today is incremented by one.

When the pachinko hall is closed for business, the power is turned off and the voltage monitoring circuit detects the voltage drop, and at the same time, the termination interrupt processing routine shown in FIG. 7 is executed. That is, today's prize number and today start number of times the voltage stored in the game history count storage unit simultaneously game history display control circuit 40 when lowered stored in the game history storage unit (EEPROM), until the next day The game information can be stored. This game information is stored until two business days later, and the next business day is shown in FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 5, the number of special prizes and the number of start days before and two days before are respectively displayed.

[0014] Incidentally, the game history storage unit on the day of the information stored in the (EEPROM), when the power is turned on next time, the game history updating unit is read to the display control unit via the in game previous day footwear At the same time the gravel information, day information stored in the game history storage unit (EEPROM) becomes game history information two days before content, information before the previous day so that does not load becomes unnecessary.

As the data display 27, a liquid crystal display may be used in addition to the dot matrix display 25 and the 7-segment display 26 as shown in this embodiment. It is also possible to display the index display in a scrollable manner.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, the game information such as the number of starts can be displayed to the player by using the data display provided for displaying the balance of the card. It can be a reference when choosing. In addition, when a card is inserted, the balance amount of the card is preferentially displayed, so that the display originally provided in the card-type ball lending machine can be effectively used. When a card is not inserted, the number of start times since the last prize occurrence is automatically switched and displayed on the display after a set time, so that a player can move from a large number of installed pachinko machines to a stand. There are various advantages such as that this can be easily referred to when selecting.

[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 plan view of the upper plate of the pachinko gaming machine of FIG. 2;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

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

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an interrupt routine of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a termination interrupt processing routine of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a view showing a display example of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is another display example of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is another display example of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is another display example of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is another display example of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is another display example of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is another display example of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 15 is another display example of the information display device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pachinko game machine 2 Upper plate 6 Game control circuit 10 Game board 13 Starting port 15 Special pattern change display 20 Card type ball lending machine 21 Card slot 27 Data display 28 Display selection switch 29 Ball lending switch 30 Card return switch 31 Tamakashi possible display lamp 40 game history display control circuit

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A ball-lending machine capable of lending a ball by inserting a card is attached to a pachinko gaming machine, and a special design is changed by hitting a ball into a starting port provided on the gaming board. In a game control circuit in which a symbol change of a display starts and a big hit occurs at a predetermined probability and a special prize is given to a player, a data display and a display selection switch are provided at appropriate positions on the front of the pachinko game machine. the provided, the start originating from the gaming control circuitry, for switching display on the data display by the operation of the display select switch their game history information as well as cumulatively stored for each business day the number of occurrence of prize It provided a game history display control circuit, and preferentially the balance amount of the card on the data display when the card to the ball lending machine in the recreation history display control circuit is inserted An information display device in a pachinko gaming machine, comprising a balance priority display means for displaying the information on a balance. 2. After the game history information on the display selection switch is operated data display is displayed for a predetermined display time, the display of the balance amount of the data indicator that card when the card is inserted 2. The information display device in a pachinko gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein an automatic display switching means is provided so as to switch the display to the display of the number of starts since the last occurrence of the special prize when the card is not inserted. .