US 5,836,819 AGranted

Image display type game apparatus

AssigneeSankyo Company, Limited

InventorShouhachi Ugawa

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Abstract

In an image display type game machine in which a play field is displayed by an image display apparatus, there are provided on the play field a left reel, a middle reel, a right reel, representing a variable display, and a plurality of pockets into which a flipped ball can enter. Upon establishment of a predetermined game starter condition, an image display is provided in which a ball is automatically flipped into the play field with the variable display device beginning to change its visual representation. When an image display is provided indicating a winning ball into any of the pockets, a credit of a relatively low amount is awarded to the player. When an image display is provided indicating a winning ball in all the pockets, or when the display result of the left, middle and right reels indicates a predetermined particular display result, credit of a relatively high amount is awarded to the player.

Claims47

Dependent claims

An image display type game machine including an image display apparatus that can provide an image display of a play field, a flipped ball moving in the play field, and a variable display device that can have a visual representation of the display changed, said image display type game machine comprising:

game starter condition detection means for detecting establishment of a predetermined game starter condition;
automatic ball-shoot display control means for providing an image display of said flipped ball automatically shooted and entered into said play field when said game starter condition detection means detects establishment of the game starter condition;
variable display control means for providing image display control of producing a display result after said variable display device begins to change the visual representations;
display result value award means for awarding a predetermined value to a player when a display result of said variable display device attains a predetermined particular visual appearance;
and
value display control means for providing a display of an amount of value awarded to a player on said image display apparatus by said display result value award means,
wherein said value display control means controls displaying of a plurality of type of value images which differ in representation appearance in correspondence to the amount of value awarded to a player.

4 more elements

An image display type game machine including an image display apparatus that can provide an image display of a play field with a plurality of winning regions and a flipped ball moving in said play field, said image display type game machine comprising:

ball-shoot display control means for providing an image display of a state in which a flipped ball is shooted and flipped into said play field,
value award means for awarding a predetermined value when an image display is provided indicating entry of a flipped ball into any of said plurality of winning regions, and
particular value award means for awarding a particular value when a particular winning image display is provided indicating entry of flipped balls into all particular predetermined number of winning regions out of said plurality of winning regions.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.