JPH08164273A - Video game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To check only the color of a piece visible from a turret separately from the color of an inner piece in a video game machine by shifting reference to an adjacent row and repeating color recording and directional rotation when a detection means does not detect a piece, and ending retrieval when the trailing end of a train is detected. CONSTITUTION: One vertical train at the leftmost position is first set as reference, and the existence of balls 23 is checked along a direction from the bottom to the top of the reference train. When the balls 23 exist, the color thereof is recorded, by use of the lowest ball 23a of the reference train as a starting point. Then, the color is checked along a left direction to examine whether the balls 23 exist in the direction. Depending on the existence or non-existence of the balls 23, a color check direction is changed in order of left, lower left, lower right, right, upper right and upper left for checking the color. This retrieval is repeated for balls 23a to 23g along a route shown by arrows. The retrieval is ended, upon arriving at a terminal train.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a video game machine for examining surface color.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When there is a difference in the score in the game progress depending on the color of the shooting target (piece) or when there is a difference in the difficulty of the game progress, the color of the shooting target (piece) is checked. Will be required.

[0003]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Shooting target (piece)
For the color of, the color that can be seen from the turret (the surface color of the piece) must be checked. This is because the inner shooting target (piece) cannot be aimed from the turret or the like. Therefore, the color (surface color) seen from the turret and the like must be examined separately from the color of the target to be shot inside.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to examine only the color (surface color) of a piece seen from a battery or the like separately from the color of the inner piece.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, a video game machine of the present invention comprises a reference setting means which uses one longitudinal end of one of the pieces arranged in a matrix as a reference. Presence / absence detection means for checking the presence / absence of a piece from one end of the reference to the other end, color recording means for recording the color of the piece found by the presence / absence detection means, and a direction for the presence / absence detection means to check is clockwise or counterclockwise. A direction changing means for rotating in one direction, a reference changing means for changing one vertical column of the reference set by the reference setting means to an adjacent row, and an end detecting means for detecting the end of the matrix. While the detecting means finds the piece, the recording of the color by the color recording means and the rotation of the direction by the direction changing means are repeated. When the presence detecting means does not find the piece, the reference changing means sets the reference in the adjacent row. Change Et al., Color records and by color recording means;
The search is ended when the end detecting means detects the end of the matrix by repeating the direction rotation by the direction changing means.

[0006]

In the video game machine having the above structure, while the presence / absence detecting means finds the piece, the presence / absence detecting means finds the piece by repeating the color recording by the color recording means and the direction rotation by the direction changing means. If there is not, when the reference changing unit changes the reference to the adjacent column, the color recording by the color recording unit and the direction rotation by the direction changing unit are repeated, and the end detecting unit detects the end of the matrix. ,
Since the search is terminated, it is possible to check only the color (surface color) of the piece seen from the turret or the like, separately from the color of the inner piece.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block connection diagram showing an embodiment of a video game machine according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the video game machine has a video game device 1 as a center, an operating device 2 and a monitor 3.
It consists of The operation device 2 includes pads, buttons,
A device that is operated by a player, such as a lever.
The monitor 3 converts the image output signal of the video game device 1 into a visible image and displays it. Note that the audio output circuit is omitted in FIG.

The video game device 1 comprises an input / output control circuit 6, a CPU circuit 7, a work memory 9, a character memory 12, a screen memory 14 and the like. The input / output control circuit 6 detects a state where the player operates the operation device 2 such as a pad, a button, a lever,
It is transmitted to the CPU circuit 7. The exchange of signals with the CPU circuit 7 is performed via the system bus 8. Work memory 9
Is used as a work area of the CPU circuit 7. The program of the CPU circuit 7 is stored in the program memory 10.

In order for the CPU circuit 7 to output an image, the image data is written in the screen memory 14 via the system bus 8. The CPU circuit 7 displays the image on the monitor 3 by writing the object image and the background image read from the character memory 12 into the screen memory 14. The monitor 3 reads the image data written in the screen memory 14, converts it into a visible image, and displays it. The player operates the operation device 2 such as a pad, a button and a lever while watching the visible image on the monitor 3 to progress the game.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the CPU circuit 7. The program shown in FIG. 2 is a subroutine, and is started by being called from a main routine (not shown). As a premise that the subroutine of FIG. 2 is started, the following processing is performed in the main routine.
That is, the ball 22 (see FIG. 3) is fired from the turret 20, and the ball 22 collides with and adheres to the existing balls 23a to 23q. Ball 2
The coordinates 3a to 23q are managed by the grid 27 shown by the solid line in FIG.

When the program starts, first in step S1, the leftmost vertical column is set as a reference. The leftmost vertical column is a column of the cells 27 in the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh rows from the bottom in FIG. Next, the presence of the ball 23 is checked from the bottom to the top of the reference row (step S2). If a ball exists, the process proceeds to step S4, and if not, the process proceeds to step S13.

In step S13, the reference column is changed to the right by one (FIG. 4), and it is determined in step S14 whether all columns have been examined. If it is determined that all columns have not been checked, the process returns to step S2 and the above-described operation is repeated. If it is determined that all the columns have been examined, it is determined that there are no balls in the screen (step S15), the program ends, and the process returns to the main routine (not shown).

If it is determined in step S3 that balls are present, the process proceeds to step S4. In step S4,
Start the bottom ball in the standard row, then start ball 2
Record 3 colors. In step S5, the direction for checking the color is set to the left. In step S6, the ball 2 is turned in the direction of checking the color.
It is determined whether 3 is present. If it is determined that the ball 23 is present, the process proceeds to step S7. If it is determined that there is no ball 23, the process proceeds to step S9. In step S7, the found ball 23 is set as a new start, and the starting ball 2
Record 3 colors. In step S8, the color checking direction is rotated by 180 °, and the process returns to step S6.

In step S9, the direction for checking the color is rotated leftward by 60 °, and the process proceeds to step S10. Rotating the direction for checking the color 60 ° to the left means selecting the next direction to the left (counterclockwise) from the six directions shown in FIG. Therefore, by repeating 60 ° rotation to the left, the direction to check the color is "left → bottom left →
Right lower → right → upper right → upper left ".

In step S10, it is determined whether or not the direction for checking the color is the ceiling 25. If it is determined that the direction in which the color is to be examined is the ceiling 25, the process proceeds to step S11. When it is determined that the direction of checking the color is not the ceiling 25, the process proceeds to step S12. In step S11, the reference column is changed to the right by one, and the process returns to step S5. In step S12, it is determined whether or not the direction for checking the color is the right wall.
When it is determined that the direction for checking the color is not the right wall, the process returns to step S6. When it is determined that the direction for checking the color is the right wall, the program ends and the process returns to the main routine (not shown).

For example, when the program shown in FIG. 2 is executed in the example shown in FIG. 3, the color search is performed from the ball 23a to the ball 23q by the route shown by the arrow. When the program is finished, the results recorded in steps S4 and S7 become a list of the colors (surface colors) of the balls 23 seen from the turret 20 side.

In the above-described embodiment, the reason why the direction for checking the color is rotated by 60 degrees in step S9 is that the squares 27 have a zigzag pattern as shown in FIG. Therefore, when the squares 27 are in a regular lattice shape (matrix shape), the direction for checking the color can be rotated by 90 degrees.

[0020]

As described above, according to the video game machine of the present invention, while the presence / absence detecting means is finding a piece,
When the presence / absence detecting means does not find a piece by repeating the color recording by the color recording means and the direction rotation by the direction changing means, the reference changing means changes the reference to the adjacent row, and then the color by the color recording means. The recording is repeated and the direction rotation by the direction changing means is repeated, and when the end detecting means detects the end of the matrix, the search is ended, so only the color of the piece (surface color) seen from the turret, etc. It is possible to inspect it separately from the color of the inner piece.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block connection diagram showing an embodiment of a video game machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of a video game machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing an embodiment of a video game machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing an embodiment of a video game machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram showing an embodiment of a video game machine according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Video Game Device 2 Operation Device 3 Monitor 6 Input / Output Control Circuit 7 CPU Circuit 8 System Bus 9 Work Memory 10 Program Memory 12 Character Memory 14 Screen Memory 20 Battery 22 Ball 23 Ball 23a-23q Ball 25 Ceiling 27 Square

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A reference setting means based on a vertical column at one end of the pieces arranged in a matrix, and presence / absence detection means for checking the presence / absence of pieces from one end of the reference to the other end. A color recording unit that records the color of the piece found by the presence detection unit; a direction changing unit that rotates the direction checked by the presence detection unit in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction; and a reference set by the reference setting unit. A reference changing unit that changes one vertical column to an adjacent column and an end detecting unit that detects an end of the matrix are provided. While the presence detecting unit finds a piece, the color recording unit records the color. And the direction rotation by the direction changing means is repeated, and when the presence detecting means does not find a piece, the reference changing means changes the reference to the adjacent row, and then the color recording means records the color. ,Before Repeating the direction rotation by the direction changing means, when the end detecting means detects the end of the matrix,
A video game machine characterized by ending the search. 2. The change of direction according to claim 1, wherein one end where the reference setting means first sets a reference is a left end, and one end where the presence / absence detection means checks presence of a piece is a lower end. A video game machine characterized in that the means rotates the direction by 60 degrees.