Abstract: A game hall system having a plurality of game machines 120 each of which is equipped with a game execution section 131 for executing a game; comprising storage media 110 in each of which information items about the game are stored; the game machine 120 including a transmission/reception section 136 which transmits and receives information to and from the storage medium; the transmission/reception section 136 including a setting port 123 in which the storage medium is set, a transmitter/receiver 121 which transmits and receives by radio to and from the set storage medium, a controller 135 which controls the transmission and reception of the transmitter/receiver and controls transmission and reception to and from the execution section, and memory means 128 for storing transmitted and received information therein; the storage medium 110 including a transmitter/receiver which transmits and receives by radio to and from the game machine having the storage medium set therein, a controller 119 which controls the tra

Abstract: Guide passages I for guiding bills S to a main transport passage M are formed. An endless belt 25 coming in contact with one face of each bill S is placed in the main transport passage M. Feed rollers 70 coming in contact with one face of each bill entering the guide passages, swing arms 74 swingably attached to a rotating shaft 73 of the feed roller, pressure rollers 27 rotatably attached to the swing arms so as to come in contact with the feed rollers 70, and coil springs 75 for urging the swing arms 74 in a direction approaching the endless belt 25 are provided upstream of the main transport passage when the guide passage I is considered to be the center of the main transport passage M. The feed roller 70 comes in contact with the pressure roller 27 rotated by motion of the endless belt 25 and is rotated by rotation of the pressure roller for transporting bills in the guide passage.

Abstract: A bank note input from the outside is accepted for lending game play media. If change is to be given, a bank note is dispensed as the change. A bank note validation section (20a) takes in an input bank note, determines at least the denomination of the bank note, and outputs amount information. A bank note return section (20b) stores the bank note if it is a bank note that can be used for change, and is responsive to a change paying out command for dispensing a necessary number of bank notes as change to the outside, using the stored bank notes. A lending controller (70) uses a dispensing controller (81) for inputting the amount information and is responsive to a lending command for outputting a command for dispensing game play media in a given dispensing unit. The lending controller uses a calculation circuit (82) for subtracting an amount corresponding to the dispensing unit from an amount indicated by the amount information to find the remaining amount.

Abstract: A simulation system which can provide a realistic quasi-experience of operating a conveyance.An output information collecting device 3 is provided with a conveyance model 20 which operates according to the operation information accepted from outside. The conveyance model 20 comprises a television camera 30 which shoots the surrounding scenery and a accelerometer 40 which detects the acceleration. A simulator body 4 is provided with a cockpit device 50, a driving section 70 which changes the cockpit device, and an output section 220 which displays the picture shot by the television camera 30. The cockpit device 50 includes an input section for operating, 60, which accepts the operation information to operate the conveyance model 20. A driving section 70 changes the cockpit device 50 based on the information of acceleration informed by the accelerometer 40.

Abstract: A game machine, having a game display screen, for paying out game play media for a winning game if a given condition is satisfied after a game is started after game play media are input. The game machine comprises an input counter for cumulatively counting and outputting the number of input game play media, a payout counter for cumulatively counting and outputting the number of paid-out game play media, a processing unit for finding a difference between outputs of the input counter and the payout counter and outputting the difference as a profit/loss count of game play media, and a memory for sequentially storing the profit/loss count output from the processing unit every specific period together with the actual time. A processing section displays information, representing change of the profit/loss count with time, stored in the memory, in a part of the game display screen.

Abstract: A game play media dispenser comprises a ball passage 10 for allowing game play media (pachinko balls) 90 to flow, a gear 20 formed with a plurality of recesses 21 engaging with the pachinko balls 90 on an outer peripheral surface and rotating while causing the recesses 21 to engage with pachinko balls 90 flowing through the ball passage 10 in sequence, detection means 70 for detecting the pachinko balls 90 discharged through a discharge port 11, a first stopper 30 that can move to a first engagement position where it can engage with the gear 20 and a first saving position where it does not engage with the gear 20, a second stopper 40 that can move to a second engagement position where it can engage with the gear 20 and a second saving position where it does not engage with the gear 20, first drive means for moving the first stopper 30, second drive means for moving the second stopper 40, and control means for controlling the first drive means and the second drive means for causing the first stopper 30 and the

Abstract: In a gaming system comprising a plurality of gaming machines according to the invention, to raise diversity, pleasure, convenience, etc., of game plays, each gaming machine is provided with a game memory which stores various game programs and a game controller for executing a program read from the game memory in response to a game selection command, and a centralized controller is provided with a degree-of-difficulty adjustment section responsive to a game condition signal from each game controller for adjusting the degree of difficulty in playing a game executed by the game controller and a gaming machine termination controller for determining whether or not each gaming machine is to be terminated.

Abstract: A game machine capable of reducing the operating expenses by carrying out the dispense of pachinko balls by a single pachinko ball dispenser, and capable of dispensing pachinko balls efficiently; and a pachinko ball dispenser adapted to accurately and speedily dispense an optional number of pachinko balls used in this machine. A game machine (40) has a pachinko ball dispenser (101) adapted to recieve a dispensing signal which is outputted from a controller (50) on the basis of a money signal from a rental ball dispensing unit (30), and a prize signal which is also outputted from the controller (50) on the basis of prescribed rules, counts pachinko balls the munber of which corresponds to these signals and dispenses pachinko balls into a player's ball tray (11).

Abstract: A gaming machine island A comprising gaming machines 1 for players to play games with game play media and for paying out game play media to players as a prize, a counter B for counting the number of game play media used at the gaming machines 1, and a money changing machine C for changing a bill or coin into bills or coins of a smaller denomination. The money changing machine C is placed adjoining the counter B.

Abstract: A slot machine comprising display means (110) having a display surface provided on a plane opposed to a player, display control means (401) for controlling the display means (110) so as to display a still condition and a game play condition for each display window, start instruction means (108) for accepting a game play start instruction and instructing the display control means to start operation, stop instruction means (109) for accepting an instruction for stopping symbol change for each display window and instructing the display control means (401) to stop operation, and game control means (403) for controlling game progress, wherein the improvement comprises storage means for storing a plurality of symbol patterns and a plurality of flow condition patterns for providing a seemingly flowing condition in a state in which the symbol patterns move, the display control means (401) for alternating the pattern read from the storage means between the symbol and flow condition patterns in response to the game pro

Abstract: At a slot machine for executing a game upon receipt of a predetermined number of game play media, when a game execution start instruction is received, if the fact that the number of received game play media is less than the predetermined number of game play media is detected, the number of game play media won for a predetermined symbol combination is set in response to the number of the received game play media, whereby the slot machine enables a player to play a game without returning an incomplete number of game play media, which is less than a reference number, to the player.

Abstract: A pachinko game machine wherein a ball payout efficiency is high and a game is not interrupted during play, so that game can be continued without spoiling player's interest. Pachinko balls are directly dispensed to a ball counter from a supply conduit through communicating members, the balls dispensed by the ball counter firstly pass through a supply path for a front tray of an overflow path member and are introduced into the front tray, when the front tray is filled up with the balls pass through a supply path for an under tray and are introduced into the under tray, further, when the under tray is filled up with the balls, the overflowed balls pass through a supply path for counting, are introduced into a held balls counter and counted, and the number of balls is displayed on a held balls display.

Abstract: A pachinko ball counter which aligns discharged pachinko balls in a plurality of lines by a plurality of alignment rails, and sends them reliably to a plurality of counting sensors without generating a so-called "bridging phenomenon" and which can smoothly and quickly count a large number of pachinko balls, and a pachinko ball dropping apparatus which can drop smoothly and gently a large number of pachinko balls discharged at a high speed from the ball counter to send them to a recovery gutter without a bridging phenomenon and which can adjust the length of a member in conformity with the height of the recovery gutter easily, quickly and without waste. An introduction path (17) for sending pachinko balls charged by a player is disposed at the back of a ball tray (C) of a game machine (B), and a plurality of alignment rails (18, 18, 18, 18), through which pachinko balls flow in an aligned state, are juxtaposed with one another in this introduction path (17).

Abstract: A game play media lending machine which comprises an operation section which calculates based on the number of game play media read from a recording medium (C) and a predetermined lending unit price of a game play medium, a lending equivalent amount which is an amount of money required to receive dispensing of as many game play media as the number read from the recording medium from a game play media lending machine (20). The operation section also calculates a conversion amount that can be used for a player to borrow game play media based on the calculated lending equivalent amount and an exchange rate preset to collect a game play charge in proportion to the number of game play media won by the player. The operation section also calculates a difference between the calculated lending equivalent amount and the calculated conversion amount.

Abstract: A card on which at least the number of game play media paid out to a player from a game machine is recorded and which is issued to the player. The card comprises a substrate and a recording portion, disposed on the substrate, for recording data. The recording portion is a layer made of a substance whose physical properties reversibly change by heating for visibly recording data by local heating according to a heating pattern corresponding to an image of data to be recorded.

Abstract: A paper slip storage system having a paper slip storage container (20) being placed in conjunction with a transport mechanism for storing transported paper slips is disclosed. The system has a temporary housing section (33), a rotational displacement mechanism (30, 80), and a separation mechanism (60). The temporary housing section (33) receives a transported paper slip M and temporarily houses it. The rotational displacement mechanism (30, 80) rotationally displaces the housing section for guiding the paper slip housed therein to a paper slip storage position of the paper slip storage container (20). The separation mechanism (60) blocks rotation of the paper slip housed in the temporary housing section against operation of rotational displacement of the temporary housing section and separates the paper slip from the temporary housing section at the paper slip storage position of the paper slip storage container.

Abstract: A medal distribution system placed in a slot machine island (100) for distributing medals to a plurality of sections in the island. The distribution system comprises a conveyance line (130) being disposed along a row of slot machines for transporting medals in a row direction of the slot machines and a distribution mechanism (200) for extracting medals transported on the conveyance line from the conveyance line. The distribution mechanism (200) has a frame (4) having a plurality of discharge openings being formed on a side face of the conveyance line for extracting medals transported on the conveyance line from the line to the side, a plurality of guide mechanisms (3) being attached to the frame for leading medals on the line to an outside through the discharge openings, and a plurality of supply passages (9) for guiding medals discharged through the discharge openings to target sections.

Abstract: A game apparatus 10 has a game executing unit 70 for playing a game using game media and a game media holding unit 32 for temporarily holding the game media used in the game.

Abstract: A metal substance detection system which comprises a matrix sensor (20) having a group of transmission lines (22) and a group of reception lines (26) and a signal processing system (170) which drives the matrix sensor for detecting the presence and position of a metal substance. The signal processing system scans the transmission line group and the reception line group; it sends a signal current to the former and receives a reception signal from the latter for detecting the presence and position of a metal substance based on the reception signal. If some lines of either the transmission line group or the reception line group are prespecified as unscanned lines, the signal processing system skips the lines of the corresponding line group specified as the unscanned lines.