Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button that a player can push; a button-up-and-down mechanism configured to move the entertainment button up and down from a predetermined normal operation position to a protruding position in which the entertainment button protrudes upward from the normal operation position; a stopper plate configured to hold the entertainment button in the protruding position; and a protruding position detector configured to detect the entertainment button being held by the stopper plate.

Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button that a player can push; and a button-up-and-down mechanism configured to move the entertainment button up and down from a predetermined normal operation position to a protruding position in which the entertainment button protrudes upward from the normal operation position. The button-up-and-down mechanism includes: a bias member configured to bias the entertainment button in a moving-up direction; a shaft member extending in a moving direction of the entertainment button; a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the shaft member; an engagement part configured to move up and down together with the entertainment button; and a spiral guide part formed on an outer periphery of the shaft member in a spiral manner, wherein the engagement part engages with the spiral guide part.

Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button that a player can push; and a button-up-and-down mechanism configured to move the entertainment button up and down from a predetermined normal operation position to a protruding position in which the entertainment button protrudes upward from the normal operation position. The button-up-and-down mechanism includes: a shaft member extending in a moving direction of the entertainment button; a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the shaft member; an engagement part configured to move up and down together with the entertainment button; a convex portion having an inverted trapezoid shape and a concave portion having a traperized shape that are formed on an outer periphery of the shaft member; a spiral guide part formed in a spiral manner on one end of the convex portion in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button that a player can push; and a button case having a peripheral wall and a bottom wall configured to accommodate the entertainment button to be able to move up and down in the button case. The button case includes outlets to discharge foreign materials between an outer periphery of the entertainment button and the peripheral wall of the button case, to an outside of the button case.

Abstract: A table game system includes a dealer's game table for performing a table game. A dealer terminal can input game result information of the table game performed on the dealer's game table. A valuable information reading device is provided at a position distant from the dealer's game table, can receive and eject a storage card, and can read and change valuable information stored in the storage card while receiving the storage card. A player terminal is provided to correspond to the valuable information reading device, and can input betting information through reading the valuable information by the valuable information reading device. An administrative server is connected to each of the dealer terminal, the valuable information reading device, and the player terminal via a communication line, and can receive each of the game result information inputted from the dealer terminal and the betting information inputted from the player terminal.

Abstract: An entertainment button device includes an entertainment button and a button-up-and-down mechanism configured to move the entertainment button up and down from a normal operation position to a protruding position in which the entertainment button protrudes upward from the normal operation position, and including: a shaft member extending in a moving direction of the entertainment button; a rotating mechanism that rotates the shaft member; an engagement part that moves up and down together with the entertainment button; and a spiral guide part formed in a spiral manner on an outer periphery of the shaft member, the engagement part engaging with the spiral guide part. When the rotating mechanism rotates the shaft member in a specific direction, the entertainment button moves to the protruding position, and when the rotating mechanism rotates the shaft member in an opposite direction from the specific direction, the entertainment button moves to the normal operation position.

Abstract: A game machine includes: an entertainment button that can move up and down from a normal operation position to a protruding position; a display part that displays characters related to a content of a game; a character determining part configured to determine a character to be displayed on the display; a stopper plate that holds the entertainment button in the protruding position; and a protruding position detecting part that detects the entertainment button being held in the protruding position by the stopper plate. When the protruding position detecting part detects the entertainment button not being held in the protruding position after having detected the entertainment button being held in the protruding position, the character detecting part recognizes that the entertainment button held in the protruding position is pushed down, and therefore determines a predetermined character. When the character determining part determines the character, the display part displays the determined character.

Abstract: A game machine includes a predetermined number of playing balls; a game board provided with a playfield on which the playing balls cascade downward; a launching device configured to launch the playing balls toward the playfield; a supply part configured to supply the playing balls to the launching device; a collecting part configured to collect the playing balls supplied from the supply part to the launching device and launched to the playfield; and a guide part configured to guide the playing balls collected by the collecting part to return to the supply part without discharging the playing balls outside the game machine. The predetermined number of playing balls circulate through the game board, the collecting part, the guide part and the supply part, and can be repeatedly used.

Abstract: A game machine, a display control method, and a display control program that make it possible to play a game focusing on an object whose sound output is being performed, even when a plurality of three-dimensional objects are arranged in a three-dimensional virtual space, are provided. Among three-dimensional objects in the three-dimensional virtual space, a three-dimensional object whose sound information is being output is mapped with a virtual camera. A performance image including the mapped three-dimensional object is drawn. The drawn performance image is displayed and controlled on a display device.

Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button; and a button-up-and-down mechanism including: a bias member to bias the entertainment button in a moving-up direction; a shaft member extending in a moving direction of the entertainment button; a rotating mechanism to rotate the shaft member; an engagement part to move up and down with the entertainment button; a convex portion having an inverted trapezoid shape and a concave portion having a trapezoid shape formed on an outer periphery of the shaft member; a spiral guide part on one end of the convex portion in a circumferential direction; a straight part formed on the other end of the convex portion in the circumferential direction. The straight part extends in parallel with a direction of a central axis of the shaft member; and a smoothing guide part extending in a direction orthogonal to the central axis of the shaft member.

Abstract: A game machine includes a performance device configured to be able to provide various performances corresponding to a progress of a game. The performance device includes a first object configured to be able to move; a mover configured to move the first object; and a second object configured to be able to hide the first object from a player. The first object can move between a first position where the first object is covered by the second object that is located in a predetermined position and a second position where the first object is not covered by the second object. When a predetermined requirement is met, the mover moves the first object from the first position to the second position.

Abstract: A game machine includes an operation device configured to be operated by a player. The operation device includes: a translucent operation part; a light source board on which a light source is arranged to light up the operation part from an inside of the operation part, the light source board being provided in the operation part; a detection part configured to detect an operation being accepted by the operation part; and a transmission part configured to inform the detection part of that the operation has been accepted.

Abstract: A game machine includes an operation device and a lighting control part, the operation device including: a translucent operation part that can be operated by a player; and a plurality of light sources configured to emit light through the operation part, and the lighting control part including: a first lighting control part configured to light the plurality of light sources at a time; and a second lighting control part configured to light the plurality of light sources at different times.

Abstract: A game machine includes: an entertainment button that can move up and down from a normal operation position to a protruding position; a display part that displays characters associated with a game; a character determining part that determines a character to be displayed on the display part; a stopper plate that holds the entertainment button in the protruding position; a protruding position detecting part that detects the entertainment button being held in the protruding position by the stopper plate; a push operation detecting part that detects the entertainment button being pushed down; and a time interval measuring part that measures, when the protruding position detecting part detects the entertainment button being held in the protruding position, a time interval until the push operation detecting part detects the entertainment button being pushed since the protruding position detecting part no longer has detect the entertainment button being held in the protruding position.

Abstract: A game machine includes: an entertainment button that can move up and down from a normal operation position to a protruding position in which the entertainment button protrudes upward from the normal operation position; an assigned object determining part that determines an assigned object that defines a result of a game; an assigned object display part that displays an assigned object symbol corresponding to the assigned object determined by the assigned object determining part; a movement determining part that determines whether or not to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; a drive control part to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position, when the movement determining part determines to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; and a push operation detecting part that detects the entertainment button being pushed.

Abstract: A game machine includes: an entertainment button that can move up and down from a normal operation position to a protruding position; an assigned object determining part that determines an assigned object; a prize determining part that determines a prize to be given to a player, when the assigned object determining part determines an assigned object; a prize display part that displays a prize symbol corresponding to the prize determined by the prize determining part; a movement determining part that determines whether or not to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; a drive control part to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position, when the movement determining part determines to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; and a push operation detecting part that detects the entertainment button being pushed down.

Abstract: A game machine includes: an entertainment button that can move up and down from a normal operation position to a protruding position; a display part that displays characters associated with a game; a character determining part that determines a character to be displayed on the display part; a movement determining part that determines whether or not to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; a drive control part to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position, when the movement determining part determines to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; a push operation detecting part that detects the entertainment button being pushed down; and an enabling determining part that determines, when the push operation detecting part detects the entertainment button being pushed, whether or not to enable the detected push operation.

Abstract: A table game system includes a dealer's game table for performing a table game. A movable capturing part captures game media used in the table game, and allows at least changing of a capturing direction of the movable capturing part. An operating part is arranged in a game player space provided at a position distant from the dealer's game table, and can change the capturing direction of the movable capturing part. A display part can display an image of the game media captured by the movable capturing part.

Abstract: A game machine includes: an entertainment button that can move up and down from a normal operation position to a protruding position; an assigned object determining part that determines an assigned object that defines a result of a game; an assigned object display part that displays an assigned object symbol corresponding to the assigned object determined by the assigned object determining part; a prize determining part that determines a prize to be given to a player; a prize display part that displays a prize symbol corresponding to the prize determined by the prize determining part; a movement determining part that determines whether or not to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; a drive control part to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; and a push operation detecting part that detects the entertainment button being pushed down.

Abstract: A game machine includes a game board provided with a playfield on which playing balls cascade downward; a ball receiving hole detection part which detects whether or not a playing ball enters the ball receiving hole provided in the playfield; a special movable bonus game gate device which is able to switch between an open state and a closed state; a special bonus game gate detection part which detects whether or not the playing ball enters the special bonus game gate; a lottery part which holds a lottery in which one result of the lottery is obtained from a plurality of results at least including a first win and a second win when the ball receiving hole detection part detects the playing ball entering; and a game value providing part which provides a game value based on the result of the lottery by the lottery part.