GAME MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To retain a player's concentration on a game machine or interest in the game machine for long time by attracting the player's attention to a generator which makes motion when a lottery is won. SOLUTION: The game machine includes: a game progress control portion for setting either a first game state such as a regular game state in which the probability of winning a jackpot is normal, or a second game state such as a probability variable game state in which the probability is higher than the normal probability according to the result of the lottery triggered by the entrance of a game ball into a starting hole; and an electric tulip motion control portion for controlling the opening motion of an electric tulip executed when the lottery triggered by the entrance of a game ball into a gate is won. The electric tulip motion control portion controls the opening motion of the electric tulip in different modes according to whether the first game state is set or the second game state is set. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT