Rolling game machine
AssigneeKonami Corporation
InventorsAkihisa Ogawa, Takashi Hamano
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Abstract
A rolling game machine includes: a rolling unit by way of which the player rolls a rollable object in a desired direction; an interference member movable in a direction intersecting the inertial direction of the rolling object; an opposite detector arranged opposite the rolling unit for detecting a rollable object which has been rolled across the interference member; an end detector arranged near a forward end of the interference member for detecting a rollable object which has fallen and moved by the interference member; a rating device which assigns a rate to a rollable object which has completed its rolling on the basis of detection of the first and second detectors; and a ticket issuing device which issues a ticket corresponding to an assigned rate.
Claims29
A rolling game machine for use by a player comprising:
- a housing having a front end, a rear end, and opposite sides;
- a rolling unit which is provided in the front end and by way of which the player rolls a rollable object toward the rear end;
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- an interference means movable in a sidewise direction between said opposite sides of said housing and intersecting a depthwise direction extending from the front end to the rear end of said housing to give the object rolling from the front end toward the rear end a force having a vector parallel to said sidewise direction to thereby interfere with the advance of the rolling object toward the rear end, said interference means being operable to carry to at least one of said opposite sides of said housing objects which have been stopped by said interference means on the way to the rear end of said housing.
A rolling game machine for use by a player comprising:
- a housing having a front end, a rear end, and opposite sides, said housing having a depthwise direction extending between said front end and said rear end and a sidewise direction extending between said opposite sides;
- a rolling means on said front end operable to enable a player to commence the rolling of a rollable object toward said rear end;
- interference means moveable in a sidewise direction which intersects said depthwise direction and operable to impart a sidewise movement to said object;
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- receiving means along at least one of said opposite sides of said housing, said interference means being operable to move those rotatable objects which have stopped rolling before reaching the rear end of said housing to said receiving means along said at least one side of said housing.
A rolling game machine for use by a player comprising
- a housing having a front end, a rear end, and opposite sides, said housing having a depthwise direction extending between said front end and said rear end and a sidewise direction extending between said opposite sides;
- a rolling means on said front end operable to enable a player to commence the rolling of a rollable object toward said rear end;
- interference means moveable in a sidewise direction which intersects said depthwise direction and operable to impart a sidewise movement to said object;
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- detecting means along at least one of said opposite sides of said housing, said interference means being operable to move those rollable objects which have stopped rolling before reaching the rear end of said housing to said detecting means along said at least one side of said housing such that said detecting means detects the amount of forward movement of said rollable object from said rolling means to the position where the objects have stopped rolling.
A rolling game machine for use by a player comprising:
- a housing having a front end, a rear end, and opposite sides, said housing having a depthwise direction extending between said front end and said rear end and a sidewise direction extending between said opposite sides;
- a rolling means on said front end operable to enable a player to commence the rolling of a rollable object toward said rear end;
- interference means moveable in a sidewise direction which intersects said depthwise direction and operable to impart a sidewise movement to said object;
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- indicia means along at least one of said opposite sides of said housing, said interference means being operable to move those rotatable objects which have stopped rolling before reaching the rear end of said housing to said indicia means along said at least one side of said housing such that said indicia means indicate the amount of forward movement of said rollable object from said rolling means to the position where the objects stopped rolling.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.