GAME MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which can control decrease or increase in player's pachinko balls without switching between a time shortening state and a non-time-shortening state.SOLUTION: In a pachinko machine, a small winning game including a long opening small winning game in which more than one launched game ball is easy to enter into a big winning port is carried out. When the long opening small winning game is carried out, prize balls corresponding to the game ball entering into the big winning port are easy to dispense. The prize balls are dispensed to increase player's own balls. When the small winning game is carried out, a variation pattern determination table which is referred in a case where a variation pattern of a special pattern is determined is switched to the other variation pattern determination table. A shortest variation time of the special pattern determined by the variation pattern stored in each variation pattern determination table is different depending on the variation pattern determination table.