US 7,600,760 B2
Prize acquisition game machine and prize placing base
Takashi Matsuda, Tokyo (Japan); and Junichi Murakami, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Sega, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/864,502.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-280748 (JP), filed on Oct. 13, 2006; and application No. 2007-241361 (JP), filed on Sep. 18, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0090629 A1, Apr. 17, 2008
Int. Cl. A63F 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 273—447 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A prize acquisition game machine, comprising:
an arm member operated to move by a player;
a prize placing base having a placing surface on which a prize is placed, the prize falling off from the placing surface to be paid due to an extension/contraction operation in a fore-and-aft direction of the arm member out;
a support member for supporting the prize placing base; and
a rocking mechanism provided between the prize placing base and the support member, for rocking the prize placing base in the fore-and-aft direction,
wherein when the arm member is brought into contact with the prize placed on the prize placing base, due to a function of the rocking mechanism, the prize placing base rocks in the fore-and-aft direction.