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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1999
Yoshikazu Sakamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A conventional game machine informs a player that a big hit prize is caused by inner lottery, however, it does not inform the player that a small hit prize is caused. Prize determination (probability lottery processing) is carried out by determining to which prize group in a prize determining table a random number value generated by a random number generator,and specified by a sampling circuit,pertain (step,). When a hit flag of a small hit prize is erected as a result of the inner lottery (step,), a process of emitting small hit informing sound is carried out (step,). According to the informing sound emitting processing, a speaker drive circuit,is controlled by CPU,and the speaker,emits informing sound A, B, C and D in accordance with the kind of the hit flag of the small hit prize.