摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine capable of suppressing a player's degradation of interest in the game, even if the result of the lottery will not turn out to be a winning in a short time.SOLUTION: A prize ball counter adds the number of winnings according to the winnings into a first start port 2201 or a second start port 2587b, and game balls whose number corresponds to the prize ball counter are paid out to a player when a jackpot is won. On this occasion, when the number of the variable displays of special symbols after the state of a completion of a jackpot game does not exceed a predetermined number, game balls whose number corresponds to the prize ball counter are not to be paid out to the player, but the game balls are held until after the next jackpot. Also, when the number of the variable displays of special symbols exceeds the predetermined number, by paying out the number of prize balls corresponding to the winnings to the player, the continuation of the game can be made possible easily, while making the player expect for the number of game balls to be paid out when a jackpot is won. |