Konami Gaming, Inc.

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Masato Okuaki

Tomoaki Hirai

Atsushi Inoue

Takashi Uchiyama

Nobuhiro Goto

Kazuhiro Kusuda

Shoki Kogure

Ryu Sasaki

Makoto Nakano

Hiroto Nakamoto

Junichi Yamaguchi

Toshiaki Shimizu

Norifumi Kawai

Shogo Azuma

Hiroshi Tomaru

Toru Omoto

Masao Mizoguchi

Daisuke Matsuki

Hitoshi Arisawa

A gaming system provides a game to one or more players and includes a ball lottery machine. The ball lottery machine includes a frame, a lottery ball field, an image projection unit, and a control unit. The lottery ball field has a rotating field. The rotating field includes a plurality of ball pockets spaced on the rotating field. The ball pockets are configured to receive a lottery ball. The rotating field is rotatably coupled to the frame. The image projection unit is coupled to the frame and is configured to project a rotating image into an upper surface of the rotating field. The control unit is configured to establish a rate of rotation associated with the rotating field and to responsively control a rate of rotation of the rotating image using the image projection unit.

Gaming machine, control method for machine, and program for gaming machine

A game machine is provided with a center unit which holds a lottery to select at least one option from a plurality of options by a relative movement between a roulette ring having a plurality of pockets corresponding respectively to the plurality of options and a ball and a center monitor which makes predetermined effects to a lottery in the center unit. The game machine controls the center monitor so as to make the effects when a temporal condition which is a lapse of a predetermined time after the lottery is started and a positional condition under which a JP pocket corresponding to a specific option among the plurality of options and the ball are in a predetermined positional relationship are satisfied.

Game machine, game control method, and computer program

A ball lottery apparatus include a discharger adapted for discharging individually multiple lottery balls, a lottery field including multiple holes in which the discharged lottery balls can enter, a host controller for executing various controls, a retrieval mechanism adapted for retrieving the lottery balls. When a bingo game is played, the host controller can set the ball lottery apparatus to a normal mode in which an input time point at which each of the lottery balls discharged from the discharger is input to the lottery field depends on a predetermined rule, and to a dealer mode in which the input time point depends on human action.

Ball lottery apparatus

A game machine includes a roulette game unit that selects at least one of pockets each of which is associated with a predetermined privilege by a lottery using motion of a ball, and uses a lottery result of the roulette game unit for provision of the predetermined privilege so that a predetermined privilege associated with a pocket selected by the roulette game unit is provided. And, the game machine stops the provision of the predetermined privilege using the lottery result of the roulette game unit when the roulette game unit satisfies a predetermined stop condition, selects at least one of ball images each of which is associated with the predetermined privilege by an electronic lottery using a video lottery screen, and provides a predetermined privilege associated with a ball image.

Game machine, control method of controlling computer used in game machine, and computer program

A game machine gives a predetermined favor when at least one ball moves on a table and the ball arrives at a ditch. And, the game machine includes a camera that acquires object information for distinguishing a state of the ball on the table, distinguishes the state of the ball on the table, based on the object information acquired by the camera, evaluates the state of the ball on the table based on a result of the distinguishing, and gives a change to the state of the ball on the table based on an evaluation result so that the evaluation result changes.

Game machine, control method of controlling computer and computer program used therein

A game machine uses a center unit that utilizes a physical operation of a ball to select at least one pocket by a drawing, and includes: cameras that are placed to be able to take images of the pockets; a center monitor that can display a video picture taken by the camera; and, sensors that detects the pocket decided by the drawing. And, the game machine specifies a predetermined video picture range from the video picture taken by the cameras, based on a detection result of the sensors, so as to include the video picture of the selected pocket at a time when the selected pocket is selected, and, displays a predetermined video picture on the center monitor based on the video picture in the predetermined video picture range specified.

Game machine, and, control method of controlling computer and computer program used therein

Game machine

The present invention provides a drawing machine for jackpot game, etc., capable of preventing reduction of the game attractiveness even when one player wins the jackpot prize. A drawing machine for jackpot game having a drawing unit for carrying out a drawing to decide a winning in which any one of a plurality of types of jackpot prizes is awarded or a non-winning, includes: a storage unit for storing payout amount data indicating an amount of payout-objects to be paid out to a player when the drawing unit decides that any one of the plurality of types of jackpot prizes is awarded; a payout processing unit for executing a payout process in which, when the drawing unit decides that any one of the plurality of types of jackpot prizes is awarded, executing a data process of a plurality of payout amount data stored in the storage unit such that after the payout amount data corresponding to the type of the awarded jackpot prize is read from the storage unit, a payout amount decreasing process for decreasing an amount indicated by the payout amount data stored in the storage unit is executed, but the payout amount decreasing process of amounts corresponding to payout amount data other than the payout amount data is not executed; and a payout-amount increasing unit for increasing cumulatively an amount indicated by at least one of the plurality of payout amount data stored in the storage unit when a predetermined payout increasing condition are satisfied.

Drawing machine for jackpot game, and game machine and game system using the same

In a game system which is provided with a monitor which displays a screen according to progress of a game, a touch panel which is operated by a player according to the progress of a game, a storage device which stores operation history data of the player who operates the touch panel, and a control unit, the control unit determines an attribute of the player based on the operation history data and controls setting of a game based on the determined attribute.

Game system

It is an object to prevent the occurrence of a situation that a drawing rolling object never enters into a drawing pocket. The mechanical drawing machine which, by rolling a drawing rolling object on a rolling surface, performs a drawing depending on which of a plurality of drawing pockets opened on the rolling surface the drawing rolling object enters into, includes a rolling surface moving unit for moving the rolling surface, and a speed control unit which changes a moving speed the rolling surface while a drawing rolling object is rolling on the rolling surface.

Mechanical drawing machine and game apparatus including the same

In order to prevent a situation where a winner for a jackpot award is consequently concentrated on a player who plays by using a particular game apparatus, the game system includes a jackpot drawing apparatus wherein when a drawing unit determines winning of the jackpot award, the drawing unit carries out the jackpot drawing by carrying out a group drawing to determine whether one winning group is selected or neither group is selected according to a predetermined group drawing condition, from previously determined two or more groups each configured by two or more game apparatuses, and by carrying out, when the winning group is selected by the group drawing, a winner drawing carried out for determining whether the player who wins the jackpot award is selected or neither player is selected, from the players who play by using the two or more game apparatuses belonging to the winning group.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masato Okuaki