Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
Patent
1994-06-23
1996-11-26
Harrison, Jessica J.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
463 29, 273121B, G07F 1732, A63F 702
Patent
active
055779590
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a game apparatus and a game system, such as a slot machine, for a player to play games with game play media in a game play media tray and paying out prizes to the player for winning game plays.
2. Description of the Prior Art
With a conventional game machine and game play media lender, for example, a player inserts a prepaid card storing the amount of money into a slot of the game play media lender and operates a switch to borrow game play media. Then, the player places the game play media in the game play media tray of a game machine. In this condition, the player loads necessary game play media into the game machine so as to play a game. If the player satisfies a given condition in the process of the game, he or she wins the game and receives game play media for the winning game play from the game machine.
For adjustment, the player loads the paid-out game play media for winning game plays into a counter. The counter counts the number of the loaded game play media, prints the result on a receipt, and discharges the receipt to the outside. The player receives the receipt on which the count is recorded from the counter. He or she goes to a prize exchange counter or window for exchanging the receipt for prizes.
However, in the related art, the player first needs to purchase a prepaid card and from the beginning of a game to prize exchange, it requires time and effort for the player to receive game play media from the game play media lender and move them to the game play media tray of a game machine and finally to move paid-out game play media for winning game plays to the counter from the game play media tray.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a game apparatus and a game system which enable a player to play games in the range of any desired amount of money if he or she enters a bill directly into the game apparatus and to save the player the trouble of purchasing a prepaid card and moving game play media received from a game play media lender to the game play media tray of a game machine, etc.
To these ends, according to one form of the invention, there is provided a game apparatus comprising a game machine main unit having a tray for holding media used to play games and executing games with the game play media in the tray and a game play media dispenser responsive to a dispensing instruction for dispensing a specified number of game play media to the tray, the game machine main unit outputting a winning signal to pay out game play media for a winning game play if a given condition is satisfied when a game is being played and the game play media dispenser being responsive to the signal for dispensing a given number of game play media, whereby game playing goes on, wherein the improvement comprises:
a validator having a slot for entering cash and determining an amount of cash entered through the slot;
means for subtracting a loan amount for a player to borrow game play media from the entered amount determined by the validator to find a remaining amount and managing the remaining amount;
a loan switch to specify a loan amount to be spent to borrow game play media;
loan control means for instructing the game play media dispenser to dispense game play media as much as the loan amount specified with the loan switch within the range of the remaining amount managed by the remaining amount management means; and
win control means responsive to the winning signal output from the game machine main unit for a winning game play for instructing the game play media dispenser to dispense as many game play media as the number indicated by the winning signal.
The remaining amount management means can comprise:
means for storing the remaining amount found by subtracting a loan amount spent to borrow game play media from the entered amount determined by the validator; means for subtracting a loan amount corresponding to the number of game play media instructed to be dispensed by the loan cont
REFERENCES:
patent: 5113990 (1992-05-01), Gabrius et al.
patent: 5179517 (1993-01-01), Sarbin et al.
Kawashima Kazunari
Takemoto Takatoshi
Harrison Jessica J.
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
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