gaming machines

Abstract

To enhance interest in a game.SOLUTION: A game machine includes: first output means for continuously outputting information during a period in a special game state or a specific period; output stop means for stopping output of information when a specific period is completed; storage means for storing the number of second special information when the specific period is completed; and second output means capable of continuously outputting predetermined information capable of identifying a state in which a predetermined variation display can be executed until a predetermined number of variation displays corresponding to the number of pieces of second special information are completed when the number of pieces of second special information is equal to 1 or larger after completion of a specific period. The second output means includes: means for continuously outputting predetermined information until a predetermined period passes after the final variation display from among a predetermined number of variation displays is completed and is stopped and displayed; and means for outputting predetermined information in a mode differing from the information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 556

Claims

[Claim 1] a first ball entry area having an entry port through which a game ball can enter; a second ball entry area having an entry port through which the game ball can enter; An information acquisition means for acquiring special information when a game ball enters the first or second ball entry area; an acquired information storage means for respectively storing first special information, which is the special information acquired when a gaming ball enters the first entry area, and second special information, which is the special information acquired when a gaming ball enters the second entry area; a determining means for determining whether the special information stored in the acquired information storage means satisfies a predetermined condition, the determining means giving priority to the determination on the second special information over the determination on the first special information; a game execution means for executing a game round when one game round is defined as a period from when a variable display for notifying the result of the determination by the determination means is started until the variable display ends and becomes a static display and the static display ends; An assisting means for assisting the game ball to enter the second ball entry area; a state transition means for transitioning the state of the assist means between a first state, which makes it impossible or difficult for the game ball to enter the second ball entry area, and a second state, which makes it possible or easy for the game ball to enter the second ball entry area; A control means for controlling the state transition means, the control means having at least a first control mode and a second control mode in which it is easier for a game ball to enter the second ball entry area than in the first control mode, as control modes in which the state transition means transitions the state of the auxiliary means in different ways; A bonus ball entry means for granting a prize ball as a bonus when a game ball enters the ball; a special game state generating means for generating a special game state in which the bonus ball entry means performs a predetermined opening when a special game state generating condition including at least that the special information satisfies the predetermined condition is established by the determining means; In a gaming machine equipped with The control means a control mode switching means for maintaining the control mode in the second control mode for a specific period after the special game state ends, and switching the control mode from the second control mode to the first control mode at the end of the specific period; The gaming machine is a first output means for continuously outputting information for identifying a state corresponding to the period during the special gaming state or the specific period; an output stopping means for stopping the output of the information at the end of the specific period; a storage means for storing the number of pieces of second special information stored in the acquired information storage means at the end of the specific period; a second output means for continuously outputting predetermined information that can identify a state in which a predetermined variable display can be executed until a predetermined number of variable displays corresponding to the number of second special information have been completed, when the number of second special information stored in the storage means is at least one after the end of the specific period; Equipped with The second output means means for continuously outputting the predetermined information until a predetermined period has elapsed after the last of the predetermined number of the variable displays has finished and become a stationary display; means for outputting the predetermined information in a manner different from the information; Equipped with A gaming machine characterized by:

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