Patent ID: 7247094

Claim:
A game machine comprising: a lending management unit managing lending of game balls; a game mechanism having a game ball shooting section shooting the game balls to a surface of a game board, and a winning section arranged on the game board allowing the game balls to pass therethrough; a controller performing winning processing to cause a predetermined number of the game balls to be disbursed to a ball receiver when the game balls have passed through the winning section, calculating a number of kept game balls based on a disbursed number of game balls, a number of game balls lent by the lending management unit, and a number of game balls shot by the game ball shooting section, and generating reserved number information on the game balls based on the calculated number of game balls; and a kept number display unit displaying the number of kept game balls, a reserved number recording unit readably recording in an external device the reserved number information generated by the controller, wherein the lending management unit selectively performs one of settlement lending processing to lend a number of game balls corresponding to a lending fee when the lending fee of game balls is settled according to a predetermined settlement method, and reservation lending processing for lending the game balls within a range of the reserved number specified based on the reserved number information recorded in the external device, and wherein the game mechanism is constructed to cyclically use a predetermined number of game balls to thereby supply to the game ball shooting section the game balls that have passed through the winning section, the game balls that are collected from a game ball collection pocket, and the game balls that are contained in the ball receiver.