PINBALL MACHINE

PURPOSE:To disregard a pinballl passing in the specific area during a variable prizewinning pinball machine is controlled to drive in a 1st state by stacking and storing the specific number of pinballs passing through the specific area during the variable prizewinning pinball machine is controlled to drive in the 1st state. CONSTITUTION:Pinballs entered in a specific prizewinning port is detected by a specific prizewinning detecting device 64. The output of a holding circuit 132 is reversed to turn on an attacker solenoid 52, blinking on and off attacker opening lamps 78a and 78b. The Q output H of the holding circuit 132 is given to a start prizewinning storage circuit 164 as down count input, and the count value of an up-down counter is decreased by 1. For example, if three pinballs are inputted in succession to the specific prizewinning port when an opening/ closing plate is opened, three H pulses are given to the start prizewinning storage circuit 164 from a start prizewinning circuit 142 through a NAND gate 172, the count value of the circuit 164 becomes '3', and the count value is displayed on a start prizewinning storage display 7 segment LED 170.