PACHINKO GAME MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel game property consecutively producing a big win game a number of times corresponding to the number of retained balls when storing a lottery result determined to be a win. SOLUTION: This Pachinko game machine is configured to store lottery results based on wins of a first operation-start hole and a second operation-start hole consisting of a variable winning device as a first special symbol retention and a second special symbol retention, and to execute the big win game advantageous for a player, when a win/failure determination result of the special symbol retention is a big win. When storing the first special symbol retention determined to be the win, this game machine controls the variable winning device in an open state more often than a case of non-storing it, when executing the big win game, prevents to newly read the special symbol retention and, when storing the first special symbol retention determined to be the big win at a time point when finishing the big win game, even if storing both of the first special symbol retention and the second special symbol retention, reads the first special symbol retention at least once in a period from finishing the big win game till reading the second special symbol retention a predetermined number of times. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT