(19)
(11) EP 0 964 373 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
20.12.2000 Bulletin 2000/51

(43) Date of publication A2:
15.12.1999 Bulletin 1999/50

(21) Application number: 99304150.8

(22) Date of filing: 27.05.1999
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7G07F 17/38
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 12.06.1998 JP 18142198

(71) Applicant: Konami Co., Ltd.
Kobe-shi, Hyogo-ken (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Kumabe, Takashi
    Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa-ken (JP)

(74) Representative: Brunner, Michael John 
GILL JENNINGS & EVERY Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH
London EC2M 7LH (GB)

   


(54) Game system for playing with medals


(57) To give diversity to a game progress, there is provided a medal game system. The game system comprises a pusher mechanism constructed to have a medal fallen from an end of a table utilizing a reciprocating motion of a moving member. Changes are given to a progress of a game when the medal falling from a given position of the end is detected. The system comprises: a plurality of detecting devices which detect a fall of the medal from a plurality of mutually-different positions of the end; and an altering device which alters a combination of the plurality of the detecting devices functioning in an available state depending on the progress of the game.







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