PINBALL GAME MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pinball game machine enabling a player to arbitrarily take a rest even after start of a jackpot game state.SOLUTION: A main control device 80 performs transition control to an interval state between rounds when it is determined that a round game state is not the last within, for example, 16R in S557 or S592 in completion of the round game state in jackpot game processing, and starts the next round game state in S645 or S655, based on the fact that it is determined that ball entry into a first gate 18 or a second gate 19 has occurred in S620 during the interval state between rounds, thus enabling a player to freely take a rest even if the ball entry is prevented during the interval state between rounds.