JP2001087540A - Gaming machine - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To provide a gaming machine with a variety of highly entertaining gaming machines that gives unexpectedness in game development by scattering game media three-dimensionally. . A gaming machine includes a play field to which a game medium is supplied, and a pusher that slides on the play field, and pays out a game medium dropped from the play field by the pusher to a player as a prize. , A game medium scattering means is provided at an appropriate position in the play field, and the game medium on the play field is jumped by the game medium scattering means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention comprises a play field to which a game medium is supplied, and a pusher sliding on the play field, and a game medium dropped from the play field by the pusher as an award. It relates to a gaming machine to be paid out to a player.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A game machine of this type is disclosed, for example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-57148. The gaming machine includes a play field, a pusher that slides on the play field, and a game medium supply device that appropriately supplies medals as a game medium on the play field. A gaming machine that sequentially pushes a medal on a play field in a certain direction and pays out a game medium dropped from the play field to a player as a prize, and the game medium supplied on the play field is It has diffusion means for sliding and diffusing. The game medium diffusing means of this gaming machine, with its upper surface exposed to the play field, rotates a circular rotary plate rotatably fitted into a hole formed in the play field at a fixed timing. And a rotating mechanism, and, as appropriate, rotating the circular rotating plate, and using the centrifugal force, the medals that have slid on the circular rotating plate again in the extending direction of the surface of the play field. It spreads by sliding as if pushing.

[0003]

In a gaming machine provided with the above-mentioned game medium diffusing means, a medal can be played only with a pusher that slides and drops medals only along the upper surface of the play field toward the front end of the surface. Compared to the previous method, in a part of the play field, the circular rotating plate slides the medals as a game medium in the circumferential direction, so that the medals are diffused.
The point of sliding on the surface of the play field is a common operation principle with the conventional push of a medal by a pusher, and the spread of a game medium is two-dimensional in that the spread of a game medium is two-dimensional. Interesting about change is not enough. The present invention scatters the game media on the play field, thereby scatters the game media three-dimensionally, giving the player unexpectedness in the development of the game, and making the spread of the game media unpredictable. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a game machine that gives a three-dimensional effect and a sense of dynamism to game contents, and is highly variable and highly entertaining.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a play field to which a game medium is supplied, and a pusher sliding on the play field, wherein the pusher is dropped from the play field by the pusher. In a gaming machine which pays out a game medium to a player as a prize, a game medium scattering means is provided at an appropriate position in the play field, and the game medium on the play field is jumped by the game medium scattering means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine according to the first aspect, the game medium scattering means includes a jump portion which is vertically movably inserted into a hole provided in the play field,
And a push-up driving means for pushing up the jump portion upward.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine according to the second aspect, the surface of the jump portion has a shape having a depression in the center.

[0007] The invention of claim 4 is the invention of claims 1 to 3.
The gaming machine according to any one of the above, wherein a plurality of game medium scattering means are provided in the play field.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiment 1 Hereinafter, the present invention,
An example of a multi-stage pusher game machine having a plurality of pairs of a play field and a pusher will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 is a perspective view showing a play field and a pusher of a gaming machine, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a main part of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a main part showing a state in which a game medium is scattered, and FIG. It is principal part sectional drawing which shows a maximum scattering state.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a table having a first play field 1P to which a game medium is supplied, and 2 denotes a slide on the first play field 1P as a second play field 2P. Pusher to do. In the first embodiment, the pusher 2 is slidably mounted on the rear side of the first play field 1P, and reciprocates in the front-rear direction as indicated by an arrow, so that a medal as a suitably supplied game medium is provided. 4 is slid so as to be pushed out toward the front end of one play field 1P, that is, toward the front, and the medal 4 on the upper surface of the pusher 2 and the second field 2P is moved by the wall 3 to the second field 2P.
Push it to the front end of P and slide it.

The medal 4 is first supplied to the second play field 2P via a game medium supply means (not shown) located above the pusher 2, and is supplied to the second play field 2P. The medals 4 are pushed by the front of the wall 3 and are sequentially slid to the front end side of the second play field 2P. At the front end side, the medals 4 come from behind, or collide with, the medal 4 that has arrived first. The medals 4 are gradually accumulated or scattered like a small mountain by riding in a chaotic direction or the like. Then, a part of the medals 4 pressed down to the front end side is eventually pushed by the following medals 4 and dropped onto the first play field 1P.

The medal 4 dropped on the first play field 1P is pushed by the front end face of the pusher 2 and is sequentially slid to the front end side of the first play field 1P. After a while, 4 is pushed to the front end side. Then, similarly, a part of the pressed medals 4 is eventually pushed by the following medals 4 and falls from the front end side of the first play field 1P. Thus, in a multi-stage gaming machine, the first stage of the last stage
Is dropped to the player as a prize from the play field 1P.

1 and 2, in the above embodiment, two game medium scattering means 10 are provided in the first play field 1P. The game medium scattering means 10 is means for scattering the game medium on the play field, and in the above embodiment, the first pusher field 1
A base portion 12 as a jump portion, which is vertically movably inserted into a hole 11 provided so as to penetrate the P in a vertical direction;
An electromagnetic solenoid 13 is provided as push-up driving means for instantly pushing up and jumping the base 12 upward.

In FIG. 2, a platform 1 as a jumping section
Numeral 2 is formed in a substantially columnar shape, and is dropped into a hole 11 formed in a cylindrical shape such that the upper surface as a jump surface of the pedestal portion 12 is located substantially the same as or slightly lower than the play field 1P surface. In this state, it is supported by a lower limit stopper 14 provided on the inner peripheral surface side of the hole 11. In the drawing, a stopper member of a lower limit stopper 14 formed in a ring shape so as to contact the outer peripheral edge side of the bottom surface of the base 12 is provided so as to protrude from the inner peripheral surface of the hole 11 toward the center of the hole 11. Have been.

On the other hand, an upper limit stopper 15 which is engaged with the hole 11 is provided on the bottom surface of the base 12 so that the base 12 does not jump out of the hole 11 by the push-up driving means 13.
Is provided. In the figure, the top surface of the upper limit stopper 15 formed in a hat shape is fixed to the bottom surface of the base portion 12, and the upper surface side of the portion corresponding to the hat flange is the lower limit stopper 1.
4 is provided so as to come into contact with the lower surface side of the ring-shaped stopper member constituting the ring member 4 in a ring state. Therefore, in the above embodiment, the vertical movement allowable range formed by the lower limit stopper 14 and the upper limit stopper 15 is the jump width of the base 12.

2 to 4, below the base 12, an electromagnetic solenoid 13 is disposed as a push-up driving means for lifting the base 12 upward to jump. In the first embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the electromagnetic solenoid 13 waits for the rod 16 to stand below the center axis direction of the pedestal 12, and as shown in FIG. , The base portion 12 pushed up by the rod 16 is disposed so as to be located between the gap between the lower limit stopper 14 and the upper limit stopper 15. And
When the electromagnetic solenoid 13 is instantaneously activated upon receiving an excitation command from a control device (not shown) in accordance with the development of the game, the base portion 12 as a jump portion is pushed up by the rod 16 from the stationary state shown in FIG. Then, after reaching the maximum push-up state shown in FIG. 4 through the push-up halfway state shown in FIG.
Again, it comes to a stationary state as shown in FIG. The required time during this period is about 1 second.

It is preferable that the surface of the base portion 12 as a jump portion has a shape in which medals 4 as game media are easily collected. For example, in the first embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the surface of the pedestal portion 12 has a shape having a depression in the center. With such a shape, the medals 4 that slide on the play field easily slide on the surface of the base 12, and a relatively large number of medals 4 gather on the base 12.
Thereby, when the platform 12 jumps, that is, explodes,
Countless medals 4 fly as if they were blown up by an explosion. Hereinafter, the scattering of medals in such a state is referred to as “explosion”.

Also, the medal 4 which once seems to be scattered by such an explosion also has a pedestal 12 with a concave center.
Is relatively large, so that the medals 4 are blown up so as to gather in the direction of the push-up center axis. Further, when the medals 4 drop, the medals 12 relatively slide down into the depressions of the base 12. Because it is easy,
It is easy for the dropped medals 4 to collect again on the surface of. For this reason, the medals 4 gathered on the platform 12 can be scattered again by the explosion, continuously and immediately after the explosion. Of course, as long as more medals 4 gather on the base 12 immediately after the explosion,
This explosion can be repeated continuously many times.

The present invention is not limited to the first embodiment. For example, even if the surface of the pedestal 12 is formed flat, there is no medals 4 gathering on the pedestal 12 immediately after the explosion. Can do it. However, in order to produce a continuous explosion on a scale as large as possible, the greater the number of medals 4, the better. In this case, as described above, in order to efficiently collect the scattered medals 4 on the surface of the base portion 12 again, the surface of the base portion 12 is depressed into a mortar shape, a bowl shape, or the like whose center is concentrically deep. The shape is effective.

Further, in the first embodiment, a 25 cent cent medal is used as a game medium, a φ65 jump portion is used as a game medium scattering means, and an example of a vertical movement allowable range of 3 mm is shown as a jump amount. The medium is not limited to this medal, but may be any tangible object in an appropriate form.
The surface shape or the like of the surface of the base 12 is not limited to a circle as in the first embodiment, but may be, for example, a triangle, a square, another polygon, an ellipse, or any other shape.

In the first embodiment, the two game medium scattering means 10 are arranged in parallel near the front end of the first play field 1P. However, the present invention is not limited to this. It may be provided in the pusher 2 as a 2P, or in both the first and second play fields 1.
P and 2P may be provided. Further, two or more kinds of game medium scattering means 10 having different diameters of the jump portion may be provided in an appropriate combination. In the first embodiment, in the case where the game medium scattering means 10 is provided in the second play field 2P, the thickness of the second play field 2P in the vertical direction is set to the value of the game medium scattering means. It may be necessary to increase the thickness by a certain amount or to make the game medium scattering means 10 thinner.

In the first embodiment, two game medium scattering means are provided.
A single explosion means of 650 having a jump portion of 650 and a jump amount of 5 mm can be used to produce a large explosion state in which, for example, 200 to 300 25 cent medals are scattered in the first explosion. Then, an effect can be configured such that about 10 medals collected again on the surface of the jump portion immediately after the large explosion are further exploded.

When a large amount of medals as a game medium are supplied to a partial area on the play field or when the medals are excessively accumulated, an explosion is generated by the game medium scattering means, and the medals are surrounded. Can be widely scattered.

[0023]

According to the first to fourth aspects of the present invention, the game medium can jump and explode and scatter in a three-dimensional manner, so that the contents of the game can be produced in various ways. For example, in the case of using a medal as a game medium, some objects splatter while rotating, some objects rise or fall diagonally, some things rise or fall in a horizontal state, and some things move one another. There are collisions, some things fall while standing and roll far away,
Furthermore, it is possible to perform an effect that could not be achieved by the conventional simple sideways spread diffusion, such as a medal that has scattered or rolled, fortunately jumping directly into the prize area paid out to the player as a prize. Amusement machines with rich variability and richness, which can give unexpectedness in the game development to the player, and give unpredictability to the spread of game media, giving the game contents a three-dimensional feeling and a sense of dynamism. Can be provided.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since a relatively large amount of game media can be drawn into the surface of the jump portion, a large explosion can be produced. In addition, explosions can be produced continuously.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, by providing a plurality of game medium scattering means, it is possible to perform various effects such as generating explosions simultaneously or with a time difference.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a play field and a pusher of a gaming machine.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a main part of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a main part showing a state in which a game medium is being scattered.

FIG. 4 is an essential part cross-sectional view showing a maximum scattering state of a game medium.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 table, 1P first play field, 2 pusher, 2P second play field, 3 walls, 4
Medals (game media), 10 game media scattering means, 11
Holes, 12 bases (jumps), 13 electromagnetic solenoids (thrust-up driving means), 14 lower limit stoppers, 15
Upper limit stopper, 16 rods.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A game comprising: a play field to which a game medium is supplied; and a pusher sliding on the play field, and paying out a game medium dropped from the play field by the pusher to a player as a prize. A gaming machine, wherein a game medium scattering means is provided at an appropriate place in the play field, and the game medium on the play field is jumped by the game medium scattering means. 2. A game medium scattering device comprising: a jump portion movably inserted into a hole provided in a play field; and a push-up driving device for pushing the jump portion upward. Item 7. The gaming machine according to Item 1. 3. The gaming machine according to claim 2, wherein the surface of the jump portion has a shape having a depression in the center. 4. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of game medium scattering means are provided in the play field.