Flipped ball game apparatus
AssigneeSankyo Company, Limited
InventorShohachi Ugawa
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Abstract
The present invention includes a ball shooting mechanism for shooting a PACHINKO ball into a play field, a variable display apparatus capable of variably displaying a plural kinds of identification information, and a starting condition determining means for determining satisfaction of game starting conditions satisfied under such conditions that a coin is deposited and the like in accordance with manipulation of a start button by a player. In response to a determination output of the starting condition determining means, the ball shooting mechanism is driven and controlled to automatically shoot a ball, and the variable display apparatus is, after variation of display thereof is started, is controlled to be stopped so as to draw and display a display result thereof.
Claims39
A flipped ball game apparatus having a play field into which a ball is shot and moves leaving a indefinite trajectory, wherein a predetermined value can be provided to a player in accordance with the trajectory of the ball moving in the play field, said apparatus comprising;
- ball shooting means for shooting a ball towards said play field;
- a variable display apparatus including a plurality of variable display portions capable of varying a display state;
- starting condition determining means for determining whether or not game starting condition necessary to start a game are satisfied;
- ball shooting automatic control means for automatically driving and controlling said ball shooting means to automatically shoot a ball when said starting condition determining means determines that the game starting conditions are satisfied;
- variable display controlling means for controlling said variable display apparatus to draw and display a display result when said starting condition determining means determines that the game starting conditions are satisfied;
- display result value providing means for providing a predetermined value to the player when the display result of said variable display apparatus is provided in a predetermined specific display state;
- wherein said variable display controlling means comprises display timing controlling means for drawing and displaying asynchronously the display results of said plurality of display members after starting variation of display of said plurality of variable display portion;
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- specific operation means for carrying out a specific operation appreciable by the player, different from that when not in said predetermined specific state, when in said predetermined specific state where the display result of the variable display portion, already having a display result drawn and displayed at a stage where a part of said plurality of variable display portions is still varying display, satisfies the conditions of attaining said predetermined specific display state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.