To provide a game machine which allows a wide range of players to widely enjoy a game regardless of their skills of playing game while facilitating the maintenance and management.

In an image display type game machine 1 which contains reels 38a-38c, pockets 30-34 that allows prize entry of shot balls and shot balls to display the total image of a game area 7 and is so designed that a specified number of balls are shot to end one game, the display of balls shot is automatically started in response to a player's operation of a start button 24 while a variable display begins. The results of variable display is derived and shown according to the results of a game determined inside a game machine. Thus, the prize entry at the pockets 30-34 is displayed while the setting of the interval of shooting balls is made possible.