Pachisuro Machines

Pachisuro Machines are the next generation of the traditional Japanese Pachinko Machines. While Las Vegas-style slot machines are gaining popularity in Japan, Pachisuro Machines continue to attract loyal patrons because it is known to be beatable.

Pachisuro Machines have six different integrated circuit levels which give odds of roughly 90% to an astonishing 160%.

It is said that parlor operators intentionally place a few loose Pachisuro Machines on the floor so that there will be at least someone winning, encouraging players to keep on playing.

Pachisuro Machines can pay out a maximum of only 15 coins per play. Though tgis seems ridiculously low, the rules allow "Big Bonus" (between 400-711 coins) and "Regular Bonus" modes (about 110 coins) where these 15 coin payouts occur nearly continuously until the bonus mode finished.

Three other unique features of Pachisuro Machines are:

• "Stock"
• "Renchan"
• Tenjō

On many machines, when enough money to afford a bonus is taken in, the bonus is not immediately awarded.

Typically the game merely stops making the reels slip off the bonus symbols for a few games. If the player fails to hit the bonus during these "standby games", it is added to the "Stock" for later collection. Many current games, after finishing a bonus round, set the probability to release additional stock (gained from earlier players failing to get a bonus last time the machine stopped making the reels slip for a bit) very high for the first few games.

As a result, a lucky player may get to play several bonus rounds in a row (a "Renchan"), making payouts of 5,000 or even 10,000 coins possible. The lure of "Stock" waiting in the machine, and the possibility of "Renchan" tease the gambler to keep feeding the machine. To tease him further, there is a tenjo (ceiling), a maximum limit on the number of games between "Stock" release. For example, if the tenjo is 1,500, and the number of games played since the last bonus is 1,490, the player is guaranteed to release a bonus within just 10 games.